During May 8 - 10, I attended the IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence, where I presented two of my research papers. One of them, “A Review of Large Language Models for Stock Price Forecasting from a Hedge-Fund Perspective,” explores how large language models (LLMs) can be applied to stock price forecasting from a practical investment perspective. This work, coauthored with Dr. Zhang, summarizes my research throughout 2025, during which I worked as a portfolio managemen

As a student navigating the complexities of school, balancing academics, research projects, AI studies, investing, fencing practice, and thinking about the future, I’ve spent a lot of time lately looking for “mental models” that actually work. I recently came across a deep-dive conversation with Paul Tudor Jones, the legendary hedge fund manager who famously predicted the 1987 market crash. The interview video is available here and also available on our Investing Resource pag

While March often signals a beautiful renewal in nature, it was anything but beautiful for the stock market. In just one month, the S&P 500 index and Nasdaq 100 Index dropped 6% - 8 %, and many technology stocks plunged more than 20%. But if you had followed the Hoperation Fund’s Market Analysis over the past two months, you could have significantly reduced your losses—and protected your capital. What We Recommended Before the Market Drawdown In the Market Analysis of Hoperat

The U.S. stock market continues to decline. We are now in a market correction and, with high probability, may enter a bear market. Many investors are fearful and keep asking the same question: Should I sell my stocks? Before answering, we must first understand what a stock truly represents. Is it a lottery ticket that we hope will generate massive returns in a short period? Is it merely something we buy with the intent to sell at a higher price? My answer to both questions is

At every Hoperation Fund monthly meeting, we conduct a market analysis, providing both a long-term and mid-term market outlook. Sometimes the long-term market direction is bullish, sometimes neutral, and at times bearish, as shown in the meeting slide below. But how do we determine this outlook? Our long-term market direction is generated by a quantitative model used in the Hoperation Fund. At the end of each month, this model integrates a vast amount of data to predict wheth