What Trading Experts Say Is The Most Important Lesson for 2018
Trading is a difficult industry. No matter the type of trading that you’re involved with, or the exact involvement that you have in the decisions to make trades, there are several basic lessons that you need to be comfortable with. In 2018, industry insiders are all...
Quantitative Trading Blogs Worth Another Read
As we take our first steps into another new year, uncertainty may be at the forefront of our minds. It’s not an uncommon feeling during this time of year. 2017 brought many ups and downs in the technological world, with some advancements pushing us further into an...
How Trading & Mathematics Work Together to Create Quantitative Trading
In life and in business, there are two types of data that you can work with: facts and opinions. Financial trading, however, is a business in which facts and opinions collide, sometimes leading to great success and sometimes clashing hard. It seems as if pitting two...
Quantitative Trading and Machine Learning
The boom in technology over the last 10 years has changed much of how we look at data, use data, and calculate data. For those in the trading sector, these changes in data constructs have been incredibly beneficial - however, as always, it has come with a learning...
Quantitative Trading Myths vs. Reality
There are many common misconceptions about the field of quantitative or algorithmic trading. A Google search will return many derogatory articles accusing this type of specialized trading of overturning the traditional Wall Street model. The truth is, there is a lot...
Humans vs. Machines in Quantitative Trading- Who Wins?
Humans versus aliens. Humans versus nature. Humans versus zombies. Many a story has been told that has pitted humans against some supreme, indomitable force. Many would argue that technology is becoming so advanced so as to eclipse human activity, and maybe in some...
Starting on the Right Foot: How Algo Trading Firms Hire Talent
Quantitative trading tends to be mired in speculation and myth, simply because it involves complex algorithms and a specialized trading structure that would seem foreign to anyone outside the industry. However, a quantitative trading firm is a business just like any...
Where do we go From Here?
The Future of Quantitative Trading Relying upon complex algorithms and machines to make informed trading decisions, quantitative trading is part of a space race in which firms compete with each other to develop not just the fastest trading algorithms, but also the...
The Best Websites for Quantitative Traders
No matter what your interest or industry is, you can be sure there’s a website for it. In the massive jigsaw puzzle that is the world wide web, websites can be thought of as the puzzle pieces and, no matter their shape or size, they all fit into the overall structure....
Quantitative Trading Books Part 2: The Classics
Not too long ago, I covered some quantitative trading books, most of them published within the last few years, that offer some useful tips and information for anyone looking to get into quantitative trading. Now I want to focus on the classics, because although you...