Larry Connors – Cognitive Analysis: Generating Alpha From AI
AI is The Greatest Source of Alpha in Market History
Larry Connors’ Cognitive Analysis™: Generating Alpha From AI shows professional traders how to extract Alpha—strategy by strategy, trade by trade.
Cognitive Analysis, combining your trading knowledge, with the immense amount of knowledge inside AI, is the fourth—and final frontier for new alpha.
In fact, AI may hold the greatest amount of Alpha is history – for those who professionally know how to uncover it
Cognitive Analysis is the engineered alternative—combining traders expertise with AI’s immense market memory to identify genuine alpha.
AI may contain more untapped edge than any source in market history—provided you know how to systematically extract it.
In Larry Connors’ new Cognitive Analysis: Generating Alpha From AI Manual, he shows you how.
Within hours, you’ll understand and know how to find the vast amount of Alpha that’s inside AI.
What You’ll Learn In Cognitive Analysis: Generating Alpha From AI
Chapter One: AI Holds the Greatest Amount of Alpha in History
- Hedge-Fund Speed, Solo Operator – Master a workflow that lets you accomplish in 20 minutes what once took 25-40 specialists six weeks, giving you an immediate time-arbitrage advantage over slower desks.
- Clear Map to Tomorrow’s Alpha – See, in concrete numbers, why fundamental, technical, and quant edges have been arbitraged away and exactly how Cognitive Analysis mines fresh inefficiencies that legacy models miss.
- Information Asymmetry – Having knowledge (ethically) ahead of others is how real professionals trade.
You will gain an institutional-grade AI playbook that keeps you days and weeks ahead of institutional desks, empowering you to capture outsized returns while the market is still reacting.
Run this chapter’s 20-minute AI workflow on your three largest positions tonight and arrive at tomorrow’s open with a ranked, trade-ready list of AI-flagged improvements.
Chapter Two: Cognitive Analysis – The Fourth and Final Frontier Of Market Analysis
The Alpha Drought: Why Fundamental, Technical, and Quant Edges Have Dried Up
- Data-Driven Reality Check – Examine 20-year performance stats that prove 78 % of large-cap managers, most technical systems, and even quant funds now lag passive benchmarks—so you stop chasing edges that no longer exist.
- Edge-Migration Map – Trace how speed, crowding, and HFT arbitraged the last basis points out of Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, and Quantitative Analysis, then see exactly where that alpha has migrated inside AI-powered Cognitive Analysis.
- Reallocation Blueprint – Get a step-by-step plan to pivot your research time and capital from obsolete screens into Cognitive Analysis workflows—so you’re compounding new, AI-driven edges while others cling to yesterday’s tools.
Retire your weakest FA/TA/QA screen tonight and apply this chapter’s Cognitive Analysis framework to the same symbols tomorrow—uncover fresh, AI-driven edges in one session.
Chapter Three: How to Think for Alpha with Cognitive Analysis
- Learn To Think Beyond the Obvious Move – Learn how second and third-order cause-and-effect analysis spots early price shifts—across sectors and timeframes—that first-order models never detect.
These are actual trades. Cognitive Analysis applied higher order thinking and identified early on the demand for Power from AI (including nuclear power), well ahead of most analysts on Wall Street.
As you can see, the gains were significant from being there early…
- Repeatable Reasoning Checklist – Apply a simple, three-question filter that forces every idea through higher-order mapping, cutting shallow trades and elevating asymmetric ones.
- Live Market Walk-Through – Follow a full example from headline event to third-order trade construction, so you can mirror the process in your own portfolio the same day.
Use the three-question checklist on tonight’s news headlines to identify second and third-order trades.
Chapter Four: Professional-Level Prompting: The Three-Step Blueprint
Ask once, get hedge-fund clarity. Professional-Level Prompting shows you how to phrase AI questions so every reply is concise, data-rich, and immediately tradable.
- Precision on demand – One proven question frame surfaces the exact stats, risks, and setups you need—no noise, no rewrites.
- Days of research, compressed – A single, well-built prompt replaces hours of manual digging, taking you from idea to execution in minutes.
- Scalable playbook – Hand the prompt sheet to anyone on the desk and watch firm-wide insight quality snap to pro standards.
Ask your next market question with the three-step prompt and receive a clear, data-rich trade setup in seconds.
Chapter Five: Five Prompt Amplifiers: Upgrading Every Response You Receive From AI
Unlock Professional Prompting Power Phrases—the concise language toolkit that turns any AI query into hedge-fund-grade insight on command.
- Instant Precision – Deploy field-tested proven amplifying phrases that guide AI straight to the data and reasoning leading you to the more advanced trading knowledge that resides inside AI.
- 80% Faster Insight Extraction – Convert your market questions into structured trade frameworks in seconds, compressing hours of manual research into a single exchange.
- Universal Edge Amplifier – Apply the same power phrases across every asset class, timeframe, and research task, standardizing top-tier output throughout your workflow. Only the very top hedge funds have learned how to do this.
Insert a single power phrase into your usual prompt and slash your research time by 80%.
Chapter Six: Turning Cognitive Analysis Into Repeatable Trading Alpha
This chapter focuses on building professional-level trading strategies. You’ll see real-world examples of this, including:
- Identifying the top quantum computing companies up to a full year ahead of most professional fund managers (most have gained well over a 100% since then).
While most analysts on Wall Street were insisting Quantum Computing was at least a decade away, Cognitive Analysis concluded it would be much sooner and identified QBTS AND IONQ as the most likely winners.
These are actual trades – especially look at the strike price on QBTS and how early Cognitive Analysis identified it…
- Taking “one sentence” from a highly regarded trading book, and turning it into an actionable Leveraged ETF trading strategy I now trade.
- Turning a short blurb from The Wall Street Journal into an actionable list of stocks to trade, based on the rapidly changing behavior of consumers and search.
- Reverse-engineered billionaire hedge fund legend Seth Klarman’s strategies based on his annual letters to his investors (the insight is amazing and applicable).
Chapter Seven: Compressing Weeks of Learning Into Hours
- Experience CALC – the Cognitive Analysis Learning Center: an adaptive AI engine that converts any trading topic into a personalized, pro-level course on demand.
- Personalized Curriculum & Dynamic Pace – CALC quizzes, amplifies, or simplifies every lesson in real time, adjusting to your questions and performance so you climb from beginner to expert without wasted effort.
- Hours, Not Months, to Mastery – What once required weeks of study now compresses into a few focused hours, letting you deploy new edge while competitors are still reading chapter one.
- Live Scenario Training 24/7 – Instantly generate professional playbooks for breaking events—CALC’s “live learning and insight” turns headline chaos into actionable strategy when timing matters most.
Open the rapid-start guideline included in this chapter and build your personalized learning track in under an hour.
Chapter Eight: Trading Psychology Optimized by AI
- 24/7 Elite Coaching—On Demand – The chapter’s AI workflow channels the combined wisdom of the great trading coaches including Mark Douglas, and Dr. Ari Kiev, delivering continuous feedback and adjustment loops without the six-figure coaching fees.
- Custom Behavioral Blueprint – A 48-question, PhD-level assessment distills your strengths, vulnerabilities, and risk tolerance, then auto-builds a step-by-step performance roadmap perfectly matched to the way you trade.
- Stress-Resilient Execution Protocols – Pre-wired rules inoculate you against drawdown panic, cognitive dissonance, and strategy abandonment, ensuring capital survives when emotions spike.
Take the 48-question assessment tonight; start your tailored performance roadmap tomorrow.
Chapter Nine: Embedding Cognitive Analysis into Your Daily Workflow
- Seamless Daily Adoption – Turns the book’s concepts into a repeatable, 15-minute-a-day routine, so Cognitive Analysis becomes muscle memory rather than “one more project.”
- Team-Ready Scalability – Lets you clone your personal workflow across analysts or an entire desk, multiplying idea flow without adding headcount.
- Durable Information Advantage – Built-in update cycles keep your prompts and datasets current, protecting your alpha as models, feeds, as market conditions evolve.
Run the CA daily-review checklist after today’s close and lock the workflow into your routine in just 15 minutes.