How to Not Make Money on the Stock Market: Using Statistics in Finance | Boston

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There are many myths and misconceptions floating about around finance. People make grand claims about the merit and futility of trading on capital markets. At the end of the day much of what quantitative financial professionals do is applied statistics, also known as data science. Many of the same techniques used in statistics, such as regression, forecasting, and model validation can tell us how to avoid a significant amount of risk when investing.