Felix Bick
Felix Bick is the founder of the Polar-Tensor imprint. He writes on AI trading, digital currency, and wealth building for The Meridian Wire.
The Growing Role of AI in Fraud Detection for Finance
While much attention focuses on AI's use in trading and investment analysis, one of its most mature and genuinely valuable financial applications is fraud detec
Comparing Traditional Brokerages to AI-Driven Platforms
The landscape of investment platforms has expanded considerably beyond the traditional brokerage model, with a growing number of AI-driven platforms offering au
How Macroeconomic Data Moves Digital Currency Prices
Digital currency markets were once widely viewed as operating largely independently of broader macroeconomic trends, but that narrative has weakened considerabl
The Basics of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Explained
Decentralized finance, commonly abbreviated as DeFi, represents an ambitious attempt to rebuild traditional financial services --- lending, borrowing, trading,
Why Backtesting Matters Before Trusting a Trading Algorithm
Backtesting --- evaluating how a trading strategy would have performed using historical data --- is a foundational practice in quantitative finance, and underst
Understanding Order Books and Market Depth
Order books sit at the heart of how modern financial markets, including digital currency exchanges, actually determine prices and execute trades. Understanding
The Role of AI in Portfolio Rebalancing
Portfolio rebalancing --- periodically adjusting holdings back to a target allocation --- is a straightforward concept in theory but has become considerably mor
How Tokenization Is Changing Asset Ownership
Tokenization --- representing ownership of a real-world or financial asset as a digital token on a blockchain --- has emerged as one of the more significant pot
The Basics of Options Trading in a Digital Age
Options trading has existed in traditional financial markets for decades, but technology has made it dramatically more accessible to retail investors in recent
Why Regulatory Clarity Matters for Digital Currency Markets
Regulatory clarity --- or the lack of it --- has been one of the recurring themes shaping the development of digital currency markets, influencing everything fr
How AI Models Handle Black Swan Events
Black swan events --- highly improbable occurrences with severe consequences that seem, in retrospect, as though they should have been foreseeable --- pose a di
Understanding Smart Contracts and Their Financial Uses
Smart contracts represent one of the foundational innovations enabling much of the activity across decentralized finance and broader blockchain applications. Un