Dr Justin Chan

  https://jcubecapital.com Dr Chan founded DataDrivenInvestor.com (DDI) and is the CEO for JCube Capital Partners. Specialized in strategy development, alternative data analytics and behavioral finance, Dr Chan also has extensive experience in investment management and financial services industries. Prior to forming JCube and DDI, Dr Chan served in the capacity of strategy development in multiple hedge funds, fintech companies, and also served as a senior quantitative strategist at GMO. A published author at professional journals in finance, Dr. Chan holds a Ph.D. degree in finance from UCLA.

 



72 Stories by Dr Justin Chan

Tech Giants Remain Bullish on Blockchain

It’s not exactly controversial to declare 2018 as a disastrous year for cryptocurrencies. With last year’s spectacular boom now a fading memory, the ongoing...
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Will an ETF Transform Bitcoin like it did in Gold?

March 28th 2003. That was the date the world’s first gold exchange-traded fund (ETF), ETFS Physical Gold (GOLD), made its entrance on the world...
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Web Scraping and Hedge Funds’ Alternative Data Strategy

Data that was once hiding in plain sight can hide no more. With sophisticated software, new data continues to be extracted – or ‘scraped’...
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Stablecoins – the good, the bad and the bizarre

“There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music” – John Keats It’s no secret that cryptocurrencies are volatile. With violent price...
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DDI Blockchain Weekly (October 22nd-28th)

In what was a very tight, rangebound seven days of trading, crypto markets remained virtually unchanged across the week. Market capitalization was almost continuously...
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7 Ways Wealthtech is Digitizing Wealth Management

“Customer experience is chief among the areas where traditional financial institutions have fallen short. 70% of millennials would rather visit their dentists than their...
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DDI Blockchain Weekly (October 15th – 21st)

It was a welcome return to growth for crypto last week, as markets added around $10 billion across the seven days and ending the...
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Your Mobile Phone as a Gold Mine (for hedge funds)

The alarm sounds. Time to wake up. Still bleary-eyed, you reach for your phone to check your messages. You turn the phone on. Before...
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DDI Blockchain Weekly (October 8th – 14th)

Most projects saw red during the last week as crypto markets shed around $20 million, and total market capitalization returned to $200 million. The...
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Decentralization, Diversification, and Antifragility

When asked in 1997 to single out some of the biggest challenges facing modern businesses, Tom Peters and Robert Waterman, authors of “In Search...
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DDI Blockchain Weekly (October 1st – 7th)

A modest sell-off capped off a rather unspectacular week for crypto markets. Market capitalization hovered around the $220-billion for much of the period, while...
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DDI Blockchain Weekly (September 24th – 30th)

After a much-needed recovery during the third week of September, the final week of the month ended virtually unchanged after a $20 billion sell-off...
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