Why I Never Use Stop Losses (And You Shouldn't Either)

• Fabio Capela
• Risk management , Investment strategy , Portfolio management , Systematic investing , Trading psychology , Position sizing , Market volatility , Investment discipline

“You should always use stop losses.”

I’ve heard this advice countless times from financial advisors, trading courses, and investment books. It’s supposed to be one of the fundamental rules of risk management—set a level where you’ll cut your losses and stick to it no matter what.

Building a 3-Fund Portfolio: Step-by-Step Walkthrough

• Fabio Capela
• Portfolio management , Index investing , Investment strategy , Simple investing , Asset allocation , Etf investing , Mutual funds , Beginner investing

By the end of this guide, you’ll know exactly how to build and maintain a complete investment portfolio using just three low-cost index funds. No complicated stock picking, no timing the market, no endless research required.

How Fractional Differencing Revolutionized My Feature Engineering for Investment Strategies

• Fabio Capela
• Quantitative finance , Feature engineering , Machine learning , Systematic investing , Financial mathematics , Time series analysis , Advanced analytics , Algorithmic trading

As a theoretical physicist turned systematic investor, I’ve always been fascinated by the mathematical structures underlying financial markets. While most investors focus on price movements and traditional technical indicators, I discovered that the real edge comes from understanding the deeper statistical properties of market data—particularly how to extract meaningful features that preserve both trend information and stationarity.