Short critical essays on the assumptions, shortcuts, and blind spots that academic work on investment strategies tends to pass over quickly — written for researchers, especially those early in their careers or working between academia and industry.
Read the essays →SCC is a small, independent group writing short essays on investment-strategy research. Our focus is on what gets glossed over — the assumptions buried in footnotes, the data choices left unexplained, the backtesting conveniences that quietly do most of the work in a result.
These gaps matter most to people still forming their sense of what's real: graduate students, postdocs, early-career researchers, and those moving between academia and industry. The essays are written with them in mind.
We don't claim authority. We write about what we've had to learn the hard way — briefly, plainly, one question at a time.
Usually 2,000–4,000 words. One question per piece.
What the assumption is, why it tends to slip past, and what changes if you look at it directly.
Written for people studying strategies, not for people running them.
Free to read. Contributions welcome from anyone with something honest to say.
If you've thought carefully about something the research on investment strategies tends to pass over — an assumption, a data quirk, a methodological shortcut — we'd like to read it. We're informal. Short pieces (1,000–5,000 words) are ideal.
submit.inquiry@strategycritique.org