Markets

• What other levers can push corporate earnings higher? (blackcypresscapital.com)
• The S&P 500 is 12% above its 200 day moving average. (crossingwallstreet.com)

Strategy

• Why momentum investing works. (pragcap.com)
• Markets are in a notable drawdown about 50% of the time. (awealthofcommonsense.com)

FundSeeder 2018 Virtual Trader Summit

• Sign up now to save your seat for the FundSeeder 2018 Virtual Trader Summit on February 8th. Speakers include: Joel Greenblatt, Jim Rogers, Jack Schwager and many more. (summit.fundseeder.com)

Crypto

• South Korea's crackdown on cryptocurrencies has been a factor in the price declines. (wsj.com)
• The race to become the go-to source for cryptocurrency price data is on. (wsj.com)
• Coinbase is fighting off VCs with a stick. (recode.net)
• There is no shortage of proposals to fork Bitcoin. (bloomberg.com)
• Nordea Bank AB is banning employees from transacting in cryptocurrencies. (bloomberg.com)

Amazon Go

• Amazon Go ups the technology requirements for retail. (om.co)
• Amazon ($AMZN) is trying to integrate both vertically and horizontally. (stratechery.com)
• Is the loss of privacy worth the time saved for cashier-less shopping? (bloomberg.com)

Kindle deals

• "How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed" by Ray Kurzweil is just $1.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
• "The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives" by Leonard Mlodinow is just $2.99 for the Kindle. (aax-us-east.amazon-adsystem.com)
• "We Are Our Brains: A Neurobiography of the Brain, from the Womb to Alzheimer's" by D. R. Swaab is just $1.99 for the Kindle. (aax-us-east.amazon-adsystem.com)

Companies

• What Facebook ($FB) should take from the success of Instagram. (nytimes.com)
• Netflix ($NFLX) continues to build up obligations for new content. (ft.com)
• Apple's ($AAPL) HomePod speaker has a release date. (arstechnica.com)

Fund management

• Can an algorithm pick better managers? (institutionalinvestor.com)
• Why the poor performance of actively managed mutual funds is not a surprise. (mathinvestor.org)

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Earlier on Abnormal Returns

• Research links: using better techniques. (abnormalreturns.com)
• What you missed in our Monday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
• ETF links: a quarter of a century. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Will podcasting kill the (marginal) conference? (abnormalreturns.com)
• Most pension funds have unrealistic return assumptions. What you the investor can do about it. (abnormalreturns.com)

Mixed media

• DuckDuckGo moves beyond search. (avc.com)
• How to protect children in their smartphone use. (mondaynote.com)
• Netflix doesn't care if critics hate 'Bright.' (variety.com)

Momentum

• Does 'crash sensitivity' explain the momentum anomaly? (quantpedia.com)
• How predictable is the Sharpe Ratio of momentum strategies? (blogs.cfainstitute.org)
• What is the best way to combine the value and momentum factors in a portfolio? (alphaarchitect.com)

Business cycle

• A review of recent research on the business cycle. (capitalspectator.com)
• In praise of the investment that bubbles bring. (papers.ssrn.com)

Research

• Small decisions can affect the performance of like strategies. (blog.thinknewfound.com)
• How relative-age affects manager performance. (papers.ssrn.com)
• Some evidence that Seeking Alpha opinions have value. (alphaarchitect.com)
• Short-selling is a crucial part of keeping anomalies at-bay. (papers.ssrn.com)
• Six big trends in portfolio management. (savvyinvestor.net)