Question 1：
Recently there was an article about Quantamental investing. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-next-frontier-in-investing-is-quantamental-stock-picking-2018-10-03. We understand fundamental investing – that is reviewing financial statements. The quantitative overlay must draw information from another source to enhance the fundamental approach.
What source of information does this use?
Question 2：
Charting is not considered worth learning in standard academic finance. But most professionals look at charts. There are a lot of quant firms attempting to find tradeable niches in the market. Computer programming and improved data collection allows current analysts to run thousands of scenarios where before they could run only one or two.
High frequency trading is a “charting” technique, in that it uses signals to make trades. These signals are volume and price changes.
Question 3：
There are four personas presented in the Mind Map article that describe how different personalities approach decision making.
Apply this to the decision making process in the current Harvard simulation. Describe how each personality would approach the weekly (yearly) decision process based on their mind-map personality and, based on that describe your own process – which decision personality type are you?
As a data analyst, how would you work with each personality to make better, data driven decisions?
Question 4：
There are lots of dumb things big corporations do. I’d like to discuss the cause of these things. Some are simple stupidity, some are shared blindness and some are due to biases. You can’t fix stupid, you can’t tell the future, but you can avoid some of the biases. This is unfortunately my favorite discussion (look up schadenfreude). What have you seen?