// About

Who's behind
the numbers

Street Smart Reports is published under the pseudonym "Mark Baum" — the fiercely cynical, truth-seeking hedge fund manager in the film The Big Short, based on Michael Lewis' book. Behind the name is a quantitative researcher who builds rules-based models for gauging the climate of the market, ranking sectors and stocks, and managing risk. The pseudonym respects professional boundaries; the models are what you're here to evaluate. No hot takes. No hunches. Just the same calculation, run the same way, every single night.

01  ·  The Problem

Why this exists

Most market commentary is opinion dressed up as analysis — a take on the Fed, a hunch about earnings season, a chart with two lines drawn on it after the fact. None of it is falsifiable, and none of it is consistent.

Street Smart Reports was built to remove the guesswork. Three systematic models — Portfolio Navigator, Sector Navigator, and Stock Navigator — run automatically every night on breadth data, momentum, and fundamental quality scores. They don't have opinions about the Fed. They don't get nervous in a drawdown or euphoric in a rally. They follow rules.

02  ·  The Background

Two decades of building models

Before Street Smart Reports, the publisher spent years building systematic trading and forecasting models — the kind used to manage real risk with real money, not the kind built for a backtest screenshot.

That experience shaped the core belief behind this publication: signals are only useful if they're transparent, repeatable, and built to survive contact with an actual market — not just a sales page.

03  ·  The Promise

What you can expect

PUBLISHING PRINCIPLES
  • Transparent about the approach — the logic, inputs, and academic foundations are explained in the methodology, and the signal history is published with the reports. Exact thresholds and parameters stay proprietary.
  • No noise trading — these models are built for long holding periods and low turnover. No new "opportunity" every other day.
  • Wins and losses, both — backtested results are hypothetical and labeled that way, next to the numbers.
  • No personalized advice — published for informational purposes only, under the publisher's exclusion of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

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