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Published inSep 2021
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Laurent Bernut
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Laurent Bernut

Laurent Bernut has 2 decades of experience in alternative investment space. After the US CPA, he compiled financial statements in Japanese and English for a Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed corporation. After serving as an analyst in two Tokyo-based hedge funds, he joined Fidelity Investments Japan as a dedicated quantitative short-seller. Laurent has built numerous portfolio management systems and developed several quantitative models across various platforms. He currently writes and runs algorithmic strategies and is an undisputed authority on short selling on Quora, where he was nominated top writer for 2017, 2018, and 2019.
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"Learning to choose is hard. Learning to choose well is harder. And learning to choose well in a world of unlimited possibilities is harder still."

– Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice

In 2004, Barry Schwartz rocked the world with something we have always intuitively felt. The more choices we have, the more stress we experience. We have outlined a few methods. Let's compare them graphically and hope the winner will visually stand out.

Firstly, let's print the floor/ceiling alone. The small dots are level 1. The big dots are level 2. The black triangle is the floor. The shade is the length of the regime. It starts from the first swing low and goes all the way to the right. Even the pandemic "soft patch" did not put a dent in it. This is as stable as it possibly can be:

Figure 5.22: SPY floor/ceiling bullish regime forever

This could come across as unresponsive to market gyrations...

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Laurent Bernut

Laurent Bernut has 2 decades of experience in alternative investment space. After the US CPA, he compiled financial statements in Japanese and English for a Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed corporation. After serving as an analyst in two Tokyo-based hedge funds, he joined Fidelity Investments Japan as a dedicated quantitative short-seller. Laurent has built numerous portfolio management systems and developed several quantitative models across various platforms. He currently writes and runs algorithmic strategies and is an undisputed authority on short selling on Quora, where he was nominated top writer for 2017, 2018, and 2019.
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