Quantitative Trading

Quantitative investment and trading ideas, research, and analysis.

Friday, May 29, 2009

MATLAB as an Automated Execution System

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I just published an article " MATLAB as an Automated Execution System ". (It is available to readers of my book and subscribers t...
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Thursday, May 07, 2009

My pairs trading workshop in London

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I will be holding a 2-day, hands-on, pairs trading workshop in London, October 14-15. It will be held in conjunction with the Automated Trad...
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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Seasonal trades in natural gas and gasoline futures

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In my book , I mentioned 2 seasonal trades in natural gas and gasoline futures that have been consistently profitable for 14 years. (Mention...
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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Fios and EC2

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As an algorithmic trader, I am constantly in search of a better physical infrastructure where I can connect via the internet to my execution...
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Sunday, April 12, 2009

The upcoming Black Swan of Black Swans?

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In a recent post (hat tip: Russell M.), Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge quoted a quant trader saying that "Anyone who is doing anything sen...
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Friday, March 27, 2009

A reader comments on trading using Excel VBA and Factor Model

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Thoughtful comments from a reader John S. from the UK on his experience with trading technology and models: "I have been developing m...
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Friday, March 13, 2009

Mean-reversion is getting stronger

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As I mentioned in various previous blog posts, (e.g. see here ), I believe mean-reversion strategies have been performing very well in the l...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009

A new service for retail investors

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Here is a new low-cost service called Alerts4All that offers technical trading signals for retail investors. You can, for example, have an ...
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Sunday, February 22, 2009

Trader tax proposal will be the death knell for statistical arbitrage

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U.S. Congressman Peter DeFazio, introduced H.R. 1068: “Let Wall Street Pay for Wall Street's Bailout Act of 2009”, which aims to impose ...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Finding seasonal spreads

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I am pleased to introduce guest blogger Paul Teetor for today's article. ---------- Finding Seasonal Spreads By Paul Teetor A seasonal ...
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

The limitation of Sharpe ratio

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Just as one should not trust VaR completely, one should also beware of high Sharpe ratio strategies. As this Economist article pointed out...
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Friday, February 06, 2009

The peril of VaR

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This Quebec pension fund lost some $25 billion due to non-bank asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP). Their Value-at-Risk (VaR) model did n...
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Sunday, February 01, 2009

Kelly formula revisited

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Some discussions on Kelly's formula with a reader Steven L: Q: "I am more than half way through your book and am stuck at a concept...
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Friday, January 16, 2009

Algorithmic Trading Technology Update

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Lately a number of new (at least to me) technologies useful to the algorithmic trader came to my attention: 1) Matlab2IB API I said in m...
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Monday, January 12, 2009

Hedge funds move to "easy-to-understand liquid strategies"

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See this interesting article (registration required) on FT on the state of the hedge fund industry. Paul Tudor Jones, Citadel, and Fortress...
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Friday, January 09, 2009

How is the job market for quants these days?

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Felix Salmon claimed in this post (hat tip: J. Rigg) that the quant job market is alive and well. However, I haven't heard much from th...
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008

The enduring profitability of mean-reversion strategies

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Some readers have doubts about my assertion that mean-reversal models continue to be very profitable during this whole year of financial an...
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Josh Brolin on day trading

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Actor Josh Brolin ("Milk", "W", "No Country for Old Man") said on Charlie Rose that his trading portfolio had ...
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Friday, November 07, 2008

My book on Quantitative Trading is published

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My book on Quantitative Trading has been published and is now available from Amazon.com . Many thanks to all of you for your ideas, comments...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Some riskless profit, and why it exists

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Numerous commentators have pointed out the enormous yield spread between agencies debt (Fannie /Freddie) and US Treasuries. Here are some li...
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