@jsfinancials: 1. Markets are derivatives of economic activity. Every asset price is a claim on future economic output. If you don’t understand what’s underneath, you’re trading the lines, not the thing the lines represent. 2. Every inefficiency has an economic cause. Alpha exists because something structural creates it. Regulatory friction, capital constraints, information asymmetries, the behavioural quirks of specific participants. If you can’t explain why an inefficiency exists, you can’t tell when it’s about to disappear. 3. Regimes are economic. The market regime your strategy works in is defined by economic conditions, growth, inflation, real rates, liquidity. Without understanding the regime, you can’t see when it changes, and when it changes your strategy stops working and you have no idea why. 4. Macro data leads price data. Fundamentals print before prices reflect them. Most retail trades price action. The desks trade the gap between what’s priced and what’s actually coming. That gap is built out of economic data and central bank reaction functions. 5. Every long term edge in markets is a risk premium. Equity risk premium, credit risk premium, term premium, vol risk premium, carry. You aren’t finding alpha, you’re being paid for taking a risk someone else didn’t want. Understanding the economics of why that risk exists is the difference between harvesting it and getting wiped out by it. #jsfinancials #quant #quanttrading #economics #macro

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