Introduction to Markov models and Markov Chains
This article was originally posted by Nagesh Singh Chauhan and you can read it here. The article contains a brief…
How Hedge Fund Operations Are Organized
This article was originally posted here. By Mikhail Kirilin Each hedge fund company is organized into three departments — the…
The technology needed for high frequency trading (HFT)
Low-latency networks and direct market access. Co-location services Advanced algorithms and machine learning techniques Data management. Advanced trading platforms and…
Building a quantitative trading team
Building a quantitative trading team can be a complex process, but it can be broken down into several steps: It’s…
ChatGPT and Algorithmic Trading
I created a trading strategy by chatting with an AI, is it really possible? Read the original article here. The…
Using Monte Carlo Simulation for Algorithmic Trading
In financial markets, quantitative traders use the most common Monte Carlo Simulation method to reshuffle the order of their historical…
Saudi Arabia: Algorithmic Trading On Tadawul: Permitted Or Not?
Curated content. You can find the original content here. By Ahmed Butt As algorithmic trading becomes the norm in many…
High-frequency trading firms can easily get to 64% accuracy in predicting direction of the next trade, Princeton study finds
High-frequency trading firms can easily get to 64% accuracy in predicting direction of the next trade, Princeton study finds
How to Build a Quantitative HFT Forex-Shop
Introduction Building a Quant HFT on the forex market could be much more challenging than with other markets. Why? Because…
Market Micro-structure visualization (an open-source project)
If you have been following, you already know that I have always been focused on low-latency trading systems. Assuming that…
BackTesting HFT in Forex
Backtesting high-frequency trading strategies is always a subject of discussion. It differs from other types of backtesting because you are…
How do I design high-frequency trading systems and its architecture. Part III
This is the last part of 3 series of articles I’ve been writing. In this part, I’m going to explain…
How technology and automation can help to improve Execution Quality in FX
Introduction In order to understand how to improve the execution quality in the forex market, we need to understand the…
TOP 5 reasons why you need an FX aggregator?
An FX Aggregator, also known as the Foreign Exchange Aggregator, is a Forex trading software that combines (aggregates) all the…
Top 10 reasons why we see HFT firms fail
This top 10 reasons list is by no means "the fact", but is based on our own experience serving such…
Working and interviewing for High-Frequency Trading?
How’s the current market HFT has been around for decades, and it is used by many hedge funds and other…
We surveyed Hedge Funds worldwide, and this is how they increased profitability
Of 104 hedge funds surveyed, these are the actions and best practices they took to increase their profitability
Understanding Trading Latencies
Regardless of how fast a transaction occurs, there will always be some delay due to the number and types of…
How to design high-frequency trading systems and its architecture. Part I
In this article, I would like to talk about how to implement a low latency system, the modules needed and…
How much money would it cost to setup high-frequency trading?
It’s a very lucrative business but is hard to get started. Usually, startups try to start small and grow as…
Liquidity aggregation
It is very well known how fragmented the FX market is. There are hundreds of dealing banks, ECNs, non-banks, all…
Witnessing HFT’s return
The platform was created from scratch, using lightweight C++ code. I was especially focused on the architecture of the software,…