Why quants pay more for point-in-time data
When quant investors encounter a new dataset, one of the first questions they ask is whether the data is “point-in-time”…
Point-in-Time
4 reasons people don’t trust your backtest
Systematic traders, asset allocators, and other asset managers often use backtesting, in the form of models and screens, to build…
Financial data must be made point-in-time
Financial data is sometimes recorded in a bitemporal, or point-in-time, fashion, but this remains a minority practice and is not…
3 reasons why GitHub timestamps shouldn’t be trusted
GitHub has become an indispensable tool for collaborating on software development and version control. With robust features and a huge…