How to Go From Amateur Trader to Professional by Reading Research

Liz Lauren
10 min readOct 14, 2020

It’s no surprise why billion-dollar hedge funds want to hire PhD’s students. Reading academic research is the thing that can take you from amateur trader to professional.

I’m going to explain why scholarly articles are a great source of rigorously tested, unbiased trading techniques. Then, I’ll break down and analyze a real research paper step-by-step.

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