Research notes for reading Veridion outputs with discipline.
Public methodology, market-structure primers, and risk notes. Articles describe observable data and operating discipline; they do not direct transactions.
How the Veridion Score is built
Six factor categories, server-side calibration, and a coverage-aware composite. The public layer behind the headline Score.
Reading a Veridion Score: what the bands mean
How STRONG, BUY BIAS, NEUTRAL, SELL BIAS, and AVOID should be read as research context.
Subset-weighting: why missing data drops out
Why Veridion drops missing factors instead of filling them with neutral values.
How Congress disclosures fit Veridion context
Congressional disclosure sources, their research value, and the limits that come with delayed STOCK Act filings.
Why earnings remains a core signal
Why earnings remains one of the public factor categories, and what trade-offs that accepts.
Methodology update: factor-category set
The public methodology now names categories while exact model parameters stay server-side.
The Risk Panel: what it tells you alongside the Score
Realized volatility, drawdown, beta, and risk tier context, read beside the Veridion Score rather than inside it.
How to read a 13F filing
What 13F filings show, what they omit, and how Veridion treats stale or incomplete institutional holdings data.
The greeks, explained without calculus
Delta, gamma, theta, vega — with no equations. Just clear analogies for what each one actually does to your P&L when the market moves.
Position sizing: the only rule that matters
Most traders blow up not from bad ideas, but from bad sizing. The Kelly criterion, the half-Kelly, and the rule professionals actually use.
What a 10-K is hiding (and where to look)
The footnotes are where the truth lives. A walkthrough of seven 10-K red flags, with real examples from companies that later collapsed.
Why your best trades feel boring (and your worst feel exciting)
The neuroscience of trading regret. Why dopamine pushes you toward the wrong setups, and the three-step pre-commit framework that fixes it.
How to read a Fed statement in 90 seconds
FOMC statements change five or six words at a time. Here's the diff-reading method analysts use to extract the signal in under two minutes.
Backtesting without lying to yourself
Survivorship bias, look-ahead bias, overfitting, and the four other ways your backtest is lying. Plus the walk-forward method that fixes it.