Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

In various contexts, for practical, philosophical, and logical reasons, there is a default assumption. In the criminal justice system, for example, someone is presumed innocent until proven guilty. T ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS reaches its closest point to the Sun today, facing a final test of Avi Loeb's 'alien ship' theory. Will it ...

Hypothesis testing is a formal procedure for investigating our ideas about the world using statistics. It is most often used by researchers to test predictions, called hypotheses. The first step in ...

There is no evidence to support the idea that this interstellar object is anything but a comet, but let's double-check.

The new integrated toolkit enables traders to historically validate strategies within specific market regimes, a capability ...

The "alien mothership" hypothesis for interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is about to have a key test, as it hits solar conjunction ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Are we too quick to agree on the dangers of consensus?

The scientific method has been the gold standard in analysis for at least 400 years, but you wouldn’t know that from reading much financial research. Untested market truisms, spurious correlations and ...