JF
J and Friends Holdings Limited
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SSRN is a dumping ground, there's no filter on it at all, so that experience is normal. If you want signal, pick a handful of actual journals (JF, RFS, JFE, Journal of Portfolio Management for the more applied stuff) and read backwards from there. But also worth adjusting what you're reading for. Anything published with a clean tradeable edge is either crowded or was never real, decay after publication is pretty well documented. I read papers for the technique, how they handle the data, what controls they use, what the standard errors look like, and basically never for the strategy itself. Replicating one on your own data teaches you more than reading ten.

SSRN is a dumping ground, there's no filter on it at all, so that experience is normal. If you want signal, pick a handful of actual journals (JF, RFS, JFE, Journal of Portfolio Management for the more applied stuff) and read backwards from there. But also worth adjusting what you're reading for. Anything published with a clean tradeable edge is either crowded or was never real, decay after publication is pretty well documented. I read papers for the technique, how they handle the data, what controls they use, what the standard errors look like, and basically never for the strategy itself. Replicating one on your own data teaches you more than reading ten.