Quantitative Trading

It can seem a bit ironic that we should be discussing Nassim Taleb's best-seller " Antifragile " here, since most algorithmic ...

There is a workshop on the 25th of February titled " Market turbulence; monetization; and universality " by Mike Lipkin at Columbi...

A reader pointed out an interesting paper that suggests using option volatility smirk as a factor to rank stocks. Volatility smirk is the d...

Backtesting trading strategies necessarily involves a very limited amount of historical data. For example, I seldom test strategies with dat...

A reader  ezbentley recently pointed out a little-noticed fact in the derivation of Kelly's formula: if we apply the optimal Kelly lev...

In a post some years ago, I argued that leveraged ETF (especially the triple leveraged ones) are unsuitable for long-term holdings. Today, ...

Order flow is signed transaction volume: if an order is executed at the ask price, the incremental order flow is +(order size); if executed ...

I confess I have always found it hard to trade options. This is despite having read some of the "bibles" of options trading, inclu...

Futures returns consist of two components: the returns of the spot price and the "roll returns". This is kind of obvious if you th...

As a devout mean-reversion trader, I find Mike Dever's new book " Jackass Investing " unexpectedly well-argued and readable. ...

First, an iPad version of this blog has been launched, so if you are reading this on an iPad, the look will be different. If you want to go ...

Sometimes it is instructive to look back at some strategies that used to thrive, and then quite suddenly contracted a chronic illness that u...

This is the title of a report published by the Bank of International Settlements (which serves central banks around the world) in September...

I read with interest an older paper " Can Markov Switching Models Predict Excess Foreign Exchange Returns? " by Dueker and Neely o...

I have just finished reading Daniel Kahneman's bestseller " Thinking, Fast and Slow ", and found it full of inspirations impor...

We all know that 2011 was a bad year for many hedge funds, with the average fund down 5% . But what type of strategies did well, and what di...

During the financial crisis of 2008, I wrote about how I watched some risk indicators such as the VIX or the TED spread  to decide what l...

Recently I opened a  discussion on the various software platforms which allow the programmers among us to build trading strategies easily. ...

I have long espoused the view that we should not impose stop-losses on mean-reverting strategies, nor profit caps on momentum strategies. My...

The ideal software platform for automating backtesting and executing your algorithmic trading strategies depends mainly on your level of pro...