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(September 19, 2026) The Hoperation Fund will be at the McKinney Asian Art and Food Festival in early October, and we're really excited about it. The festival celebrates Asian culture with art, food, and live performances, and we're happy to be part of it.

Come say hi, hear about what we do, and check out the festival while you're there.

When: Friday, October 2 (5–9 PM) and Saturday, October 3 (11 AM–8 PM)
Where: 401 E Virginia St, McKinney, TX 75069

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(September 6, 2026) On Sunday, September 6, from 7:00–8:00 PM Central Time, Hoperation Fund will hold its 120th meeting, marking the kickoff of the 2026–2027 academic year. The meeting will feature an update on the Hoperation Fund investment portfolio, foundational financial literacy and investing knowledge, and advanced investing topics designed to support high-school investment competitions.

 

(August 16, 2026) Three of our members—Olivia Zhang, Oliver Fan, and Chloe Li—along with non-member Jefferson Lee, participated in the Finovate Hackathon on August 16. Their project, “Remedi,” an app designed to help low-income patients access medications while also helping insurance companies reduce healthcare costs, ranked among the top 6 out of 28 competing teams. Congratulations to the team on this wonderful achievement!

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(August 2, 2026, Meeting #119) On Sunday, August 2, we will hold our August Monthly Meeting. In addition to our regular updates on the Hoperation Fund’s portfolio management and performance, financial market analysis, and Market Top Signal, we will introduce new learning plans for the upcoming academic year. The meeting will conclude with the fifth lecture in our Quantitative Trading Lecture Series: “Large Language Models for Stock Price Forecasting from a Hedge Fund Perspective.”, given by the President.

 

(July 20, 2026, Meeting #118) Hoperation Fund will host Lecture #4 of its Quantitative Trading Lecture Series on July 20 from 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. Central Time. Given by Olivia Zhang, this talk will further explore AI-based empirical asset pricing and examine how this methodology can be applied to Hoperation Fund’s current investment portfolio. 

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(July 8, 2026, Meeting #117) Hoperation Fund will host Lecture #3 of the Quantitative Trading Lecture Series on July 8 from 10:00–11:00 AM Central Time. This roundtable discussion, led by Olivia Zhang, will explore how AI can be used to predict stock returns through fundamental, technical, and alternative data. Participants are expected to have a basic understanding of AI models, fundamental analysis, technical analysis, and alternative market data. 

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(July 5, 2026, Meeting #116) This Sunday, July 5, we will host our regular monthly meeting. The financial lecture given in this meeting will be the final lecture of our 2025–2026 Financial & Investment Lecture Program. The lecture covers how to evaluate a portfolio, with case studies of classic portfolios such as the All Seasons Portfolio, Permanent Portfolio, Bogleheads Three-Fund Portfolio, and others.

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(June 21, 2026, Meeting #115) Hoperation Fund will host its 115th meeting at 9:00 AM Central Time on June 21. In this meeting, Ms. Olivia Zhang and Dr. Zhilin Zhang will analyze the stock market and discuss risk control strategies. 

 

(June 20, 2026, Meeting #114) On June 20 at 9:00 AM Central Time, Hoperation Fund will host its 114th meeting, which is also the 2nd talk of the Quantitative Trading Lecture Series. The President Ms. Olivia Zhang will give a talk on Empirical Asset Pricing via Machine Learning. Based on the paper by Gu, Kelly, and Xiu, the session will introduce how machine learning can be used to predict stock returns, rank stocks, and construct long-short portfolios. The talk will also discuss why nonlinear models, such as tree-based methods and neural networks, can improve empirical asset pricing. 

 

(June 16, 2026, Meeting #113) On June 16 at 10:00 AM (Central Time), Hoperation Fund will hold its 113th meeting, discussing the ARK Invest’s report, Big Ideas 2026. The session will be hosted by our advisor, Dr. Zhilin Zhang. 

 

(June 14, 2026, Meeting #112) On June 14 at 7:00 PM (Central Time), Hoperation Fund and Lumos AI Club will cohost an AI roundtable meeting. During the meeting, students will watch two lectures on synthetic media and deepfake technology, presented by Prof. Hany Farid from UC Berkeley and Prof. Luisa Verdoliva from the University of Naples Federico II. For more details, please check the email from Hoperation Fund. This is No.112 meeting of Hoperation Fund.

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(June 13, 2026, Meeting #111) On June 13, Hoperation Fund will hold the first lecture in its Quantitative Trading Lecture Series. The lecture, titled “Time Series Forecasting Using Foundation Models,” will cover topics including the evolution from statistical models to foundation models in forecasting, zero-shot prediction and TimeGPT, challenges in real-world time series data, explainability in deep learning models, and the future of forecasting and AI. For more details, please check the email from Hoperation Fund. 

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(June 7, 2026, Meeting #110) The Hoperation Fund will hold its monthly meeting on Sunday, June 7. During the meeting, members will continue exploring key investing topics, including commodities and commodity ETFs, bonds and bond ETFs, REIT and REIT ETFs, and Portfolio Design 101. This meeting will also reveal a very important quantitative trading signal that has helped identify major market tops over the past 50 years. In 2021, this signal accurately warned of the upcoming 2022 bear market, helping members of our former financial investment club, the predecessor of the Hoperation Fund, avoid significant capital losses. This is No.110 meeting of Hoperation Fund.