You often hear two things when watching or reading financial news. One is earnings season, and another is quantitative trading. Most people prefer to manage their own money and pick the companies their most familiar with when making trading decisions. I’m going to integrate the two to talk about the performance of a simple earnings trade strategy across the NASDAQ and how it compares against a basket of popular stocks.

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Every year, the stock market generates millionaire/billionaires daily through initial public offering or IPO. $46.8 Billion flooded the IPO markets last year, with 191 companies having their market debuts in 2018 beating 2017 by 31. As of 3/4/2019, the markets have had 11 companies raise a total of $1.2 Billion which has a long way to go if it wants to beat the prior year amount. As one of the most anticipated IPO to hit the markets in 2019, LYFT filed its S-1 IPO filing on 3/1/2019 revealing its massive loss of nearly $1 Billion.

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Salesforce (CRM) carried on with its tradition of beating expectations and raising future forecasts in its most recent quarterly results. This provides concrete evidence to investors that management’s long-term forecasts of FY22 revenue are likely to be met. Not only did the company confirm its FY22 goals, but they gave more detail on expectations for FY20 that indicates a 20-21% revenue growth rate which is above expectations of 19% YoY.

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I’ve always followed bank stocks ever since I first began investing almost six years ago. Once I learned the 10-year and 2-year treasury spread was a profit driver for the big banks, I started to track the daily fluctuations. These two interest rates are part of the larger yield curve that generally trends higher along the x-axis of a graph, while an “inverted” curve trends lower along the x-axis. Let’s take a look at the yield curve over five different time frames since the start of 2018 and which of these yields recently inverted.

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Whenever Customer Relationship Management is the topic of discussion, it’s almost impossible not to see Salesforce mentioned as the pioneer and leader. Salesforce currently has the largest market share of the CRM segment and is expected to continue gaining market share. Before we dig into Salesforce specifically, let’s explore what exactly CRM is and the growth prospects. I want to cover some important factors that can affect Salesforce future cash flows instead of specific steps and calculations.

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While most of us have used or considered booking an Airbnb, there are a lot less of us who have considered posting our own property on Airbnb. Being that New York City rent is extremely high, I’ve considered listing my Brooklyn apartment to see what kind of profits I could turn. During this time, I was learning about multiple linear regression in my Quantitative Analysis & Forecasting class and was assigned a project to create a linear model to predict some form of dependent variable. I figured why not use this opportunity to dig a little deeper on estimating a listing price for my apartment.

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