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Quantitative Finance
An Informational Introduction to Game Theory and the Stock Market
It has been a while since I wrote an article. I therefore owe you, my readers, a sincere apology. With the ever looming lockdown coming for Kuwait in February 2021, I decided to take a deep breath from university studying — to pause, reflect, and continue writing once...
Portfolio Optimization: A Primer
In this particular article, I’ve decided to try out a slightly different style of relaying information. The basic philosophy is as follows: I’ll provide low resolution information on a particular topic, then as we go through the article it will gradually be...
Taleb’s Antifragility
What is the opposite of fragile? Robust? Wrong! It’s natural. Most people would often say robust — something that is not fragile, something that does not break. Whilst this common answer may seem correct at first, one can view fragility in a totally different...
Actuarial Mathematics
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Computer Science
Applied Numerical Methods: Part 1
Disclaimer: This article series recommends the use of Matlab. If you do not have access to Matlab, then I would recommend using Octave which is an open source alternative with almost completely similar syntax. You may use this online version https://octave-online.net....
Portfolio Optimization: A Primer
In this particular article, I’ve decided to try out a slightly different style of relaying information. The basic philosophy is as follows: I’ll provide low resolution information on a particular topic, then as we go through the article it will gradually be...
Modeling Trading Decisions Using Fuzzy Logic
Contents Part 1: A Primer on Classical Logic Part 2: The Real World Part 3: An Introduction to Fuzzy Logic Part 4: Modeling Trading Decisions Conclusion 1- A Primer on Classical Logic Thanks to the Abbasid empires goal of translation and preservation of Aristotles...
Engineering
Mathematical Finance
An Informational Introduction to Game Theory and the Stock Market
It has been a while since I wrote an article. I therefore owe you, my readers, a sincere apology. With the ever looming lockdown coming for Kuwait in February 2021, I decided to take a deep breath from university studying — to pause, reflect, and continue writing once...
Portfolio Optimization: A Primer
In this particular article, I’ve decided to try out a slightly different style of relaying information. The basic philosophy is as follows: I’ll provide low resolution information on a particular topic, then as we go through the article it will gradually be...
The Art of Statistical Arbitrage — An Overview
Contents Part 1: What is Pairs Trading? Part 2: An Overview of Pairs Trading Part 3: Conclusion 1- What is Pairs Trading As a primer to our current topic, I would strongly suggest reading another article I wrote on the concept of arbitrage. The Concept of Arbitrage...
Mathematics
System Dynamics Notes (2/n): Ordinary Differential Equations
An Informational Introduction to Game Theory and the Stock Market
It has been a while since I wrote an article. I therefore owe you, my readers, a sincere apology. With the ever looming lockdown coming for Kuwait in February 2021, I decided to take a deep breath from university studying — to pause, reflect, and continue writing once...
Applied Numerical Methods: Part 1
Disclaimer: This article series recommends the use of Matlab. If you do not have access to Matlab, then I would recommend using Octave which is an open source alternative with almost completely similar syntax. You may use this online version https://octave-online.net....
Mechanical Engineering
Heat Transfer Project
Solving for temperatures of interior nodes for 2-D convection, steady-state, constant properties, and heat generation. Problem Statement: Consider steady two-dimensional heat transfer in a long solid body whose cross section is given in the figure. The measured...
System Dynamics Notes (5/n): Fluid Systems
System Dynamics Notes (4/n): Electrical and Electro-Mechanical Systems
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Finance
A Basic Understanding of Financial Instruments
This introduction is by no means a quantitative one. It has been designed as an introductory and intuitive primer to understand the financial markets with specific focus on the traded financial instruments. I will begin by shedding light on this topic as a whole using...
What is Portfolio Management?
WHAT IS A PORTFOLIO? A collection of one or more similar or different investment vehicles. WHAT IS PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT? It is the art and science of making investment decisions of mix and policy, asset allocation, balancing risk and performance, and matching...
Futures Research
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Ideas
Elevators, Completeness, and Divinity: Musing on the theory of learning
I had finally completed my workout for the day and traversed my regular route, heading towards the elevator, down to the ground floor, then out the front doors. It was the moment I headed to the elevator and clicked the bottom arrow that a musing I had maintained...
A Recreated Mental Model for Systems Thinking
Introduction The idea for this article, my musing, erupted from two very different sources of inspiration; the first being from the intellectual autobiography by Colin McGinn, ‘The Making of a Philosopher’; while the second is from the fact that I am about to begin...
Driving Antics of a Society
From observations to drawing up strategies. In light of the recent relaxation of the curfew in Kuwait and hence the reappearance of traffic, an idea I had previously thought, has once again resurfaced. Every morning as I traversed my usual route to university, which...
Investment
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Musings
Elevators, Completeness, and Divinity: Musing on the theory of learning
I had finally completed my workout for the day and traversed my regular route, heading towards the elevator, down to the ground floor, then out the front doors. It was the moment I headed to the elevator and clicked the bottom arrow that a musing I had maintained...
A Recreated Mental Model for Systems Thinking
Introduction The idea for this article, my musing, erupted from two very different sources of inspiration; the first being from the intellectual autobiography by Colin McGinn, ‘The Making of a Philosopher’; while the second is from the fact that I am about to begin...
Driving Antics of a Society
From observations to drawing up strategies. In light of the recent relaxation of the curfew in Kuwait and hence the reappearance of traffic, an idea I had previously thought, has once again resurfaced. Every morning as I traversed my usual route to university, which...
Philosophy
Elevators, Completeness, and Divinity: Musing on the theory of learning
I had finally completed my workout for the day and traversed my regular route, heading towards the elevator, down to the ground floor, then out the front doors. It was the moment I headed to the elevator and clicked the bottom arrow that a musing I had maintained...
A Recreated Mental Model for Systems Thinking
Introduction The idea for this article, my musing, erupted from two very different sources of inspiration; the first being from the intellectual autobiography by Colin McGinn, ‘The Making of a Philosopher’; while the second is from the fact that I am about to begin...
Taleb’s Antifragility
What is the opposite of fragile? Robust? Wrong! It’s natural. Most people would often say robust — something that is not fragile, something that does not break. Whilst this common answer may seem correct at first, one can view fragility in a totally different...
Productivity
What I Learnt as a Salesman
In 2019, I started cold calling as a salesman. I hated it. Absolutely detested it. Being an extroverted introvert, the process of cold calling always had an initial inertia about it. The only part of cold calling I enjoyed was when I had generated all my leads from...
Writings
A Short Story: How a Coffeeholic Discovered Speed
Disclaimer: You’re in a world where physics still doesn’t exist. You’re sitting on a bench sipping coffee with a friend of yours. You’re facing a slightly busy road littered with kiosks of roughly the same dimensions, spaced evenly away from each other. People are...
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Elevators, Completeness, and Divinity: Musing on the theory of learning
I had finally completed my workout for the day and traversed my regular route, heading towards the elevator, down to the ground floor, then out the front doors. It was the moment I headed to the elevator and clicked the bottom arrow that a musing I had maintained...
Heat Transfer Project
Solving for temperatures of interior nodes for 2-D convection, steady-state, constant properties, and heat generation. Problem Statement: Consider steady two-dimensional heat transfer in a long solid body whose cross section is given in the figure. The measured...
System Dynamics Notes (5/n): Fluid Systems
System Dynamics Notes (4/n): Electrical and Electro-Mechanical Systems
System Dynamics Notes (3/n): Spring & Damper Elements in Mechanical Systems
System Dynamics Notes (2/n): Ordinary Differential Equations
System Dynamics Notes (1/n): Linearization & System Modeling
Having finally completed a course in system dynamics, I took it upon myself to fulfill a kind readers request to share my progress throughout systems thinking. To do so, I have rewritten my notes in a manner that is assessable to most readers. However, It is important...
A Recreated Mental Model for Systems Thinking
Introduction The idea for this article, my musing, erupted from two very different sources of inspiration; the first being from the intellectual autobiography by Colin McGinn, ‘The Making of a Philosopher’; while the second is from the fact that I am about to begin...
An Informational Introduction to Game Theory and the Stock Market
It has been a while since I wrote an article. I therefore owe you, my readers, a sincere apology. With the ever looming lockdown coming for Kuwait in February 2021, I decided to take a deep breath from university studying — to pause, reflect, and continue writing once...
Applied Numerical Methods: Part 1
Disclaimer: This article series recommends the use of Matlab. If you do not have access to Matlab, then I would recommend using Octave which is an open source alternative with almost completely similar syntax. You may use this online version https://octave-online.net....
Portfolio Optimization: A Primer
In this particular article, I’ve decided to try out a slightly different style of relaying information. The basic philosophy is as follows: I’ll provide low resolution information on a particular topic, then as we go through the article it will gradually be...
Taleb’s Antifragility
What is the opposite of fragile? Robust? Wrong! It’s natural. Most people would often say robust — something that is not fragile, something that does not break. Whilst this common answer may seem correct at first, one can view fragility in a totally different...
Driving Antics of a Society
From observations to drawing up strategies. In light of the recent relaxation of the curfew in Kuwait and hence the reappearance of traffic, an idea I had previously thought, has once again resurfaced. Every morning as I traversed my usual route to university, which...
The Art of Statistical Arbitrage — An Overview
Contents Part 1: What is Pairs Trading? Part 2: An Overview of Pairs Trading Part 3: Conclusion 1- What is Pairs Trading As a primer to our current topic, I would strongly suggest reading another article I wrote on the concept of arbitrage. The Concept of Arbitrage...
Modeling Trading Decisions Using Fuzzy Logic
Contents Part 1: A Primer on Classical Logic Part 2: The Real World Part 3: An Introduction to Fuzzy Logic Part 4: Modeling Trading Decisions Conclusion 1- A Primer on Classical Logic Thanks to the Abbasid empires goal of translation and preservation of Aristotles...
Exploring Markov Chains in Stock Market Trends
Primer In a previous article, we utilized a very important assumption before we began using the concept of a random walk (which is an example of a Markov chain) to predict stock price movements; The assumption here of course, is that the movement in a stocks price is...
From Tossing Coins to Predicting Stock Prices
The Mathematics of a Coin Toss A coin is a very interesting item. This is because its intriguing aspect truly lies with its use in probability, rather than it’s function as a monetary item. Coins are widely used as a tool to aid in randomly selecting between two...
Chaos in One Innocent Equation
What is chaos? It is a seemingly random behavior exhibited in a system, with sensitive dependence on initial conditions. What we mean by ‘seemingly random’, is that this behavior is very unpredictable — so much so that it may appear random. This random appearance is...
What is a Forward Contract?
A forward contract is a binding agreement between two parties to trade an asset with an agreed upon price at a set time. Its opposite is a spot contract which is a trade agreement that occurs almost instantaneously, there and then. No money is exchanged during...
What I Learnt as a Salesman
In 2019, I started cold calling as a salesman. I hated it. Absolutely detested it. Being an extroverted introvert, the process of cold calling always had an initial inertia about it. The only part of cold calling I enjoyed was when I had generated all my leads from...
A Short Story: How a Coffeeholic Discovered Speed
Disclaimer: You’re in a world where physics still doesn’t exist. You’re sitting on a bench sipping coffee with a friend of yours. You’re facing a slightly busy road littered with kiosks of roughly the same dimensions, spaced evenly away from each other. People are...
What is Quantitative Finance?
THE BEGINNING Quantitative finance is a relatively new subject which saw its birth at the hands of physicists and other quantitatively trained PHD’s in the early 70’s. Models, concepts, and mathematics have been translated from various disciplines, the major one being...
A Basic Understanding of Financial Instruments
This introduction is by no means a quantitative one. It has been designed as an introductory and intuitive primer to understand the financial markets with specific focus on the traded financial instruments. I will begin by shedding light on this topic as a whole using...
A Complete Summary of: Calculus 1
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What is Portfolio Management?
WHAT IS A PORTFOLIO? A collection of one or more similar or different investment vehicles. WHAT IS PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT? It is the art and science of making investment decisions of mix and policy, asset allocation, balancing risk and performance, and matching...
A Brief Primer on Discrete Mathematics
This primer is by no means exhaustive of the subject. Treat it as what you’d learn before you’re fully introduced to the subject. I hope this brief primer on Discrete Mathematics will be of some use to you. This subject is extremely useful in describing objects and...
Introduction to Quantitative Modeling Series: Part One
A WORD I am excited to introduce you to the structure of our introduction. I will explain all the necessary vocabulary and all the processes relevant to quantitative modeling. Then, from what we’ve learnt, we will build a mathematical model together. WHAT IS...
The Concept of Arbitrage
WHAT IS ARBITRAGE Arbitrage is when the same asset has, for example, two different prices across markets and hence an investor can profit by immediately buying and selling to profit from the price differential. Suppose a stock A was trading at $100/share at the NYSE...
Interpretations of Dynamical Laws
THE BEGINNING OF ALL LAWS The other day I was reading Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky’s ‘Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum’, and I found in the first interlude something so simple and beautiful- the origin of dynamic laws. I’ll begin by laying...
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