It’s “back to the future” for electronic trading firms

Posted by on Jul 18, 2011

 FT.com published another good article on the state of high frequency trading that aligns pretty well with the shifts we have seen in the market. The theme of the article is that opportunities in HFT are becoming less abundant and, as a result, many HFT firms are turning back to quant strategies that differentiate based on unique market pairings or predictions of where the markets will move....
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Quants on wall street: Revenge of the nerds

Posted by on Feb 12, 2010

I borrowed the headline above from the title of an interview at Yahoo! Finance today featuring Scott Patterson, the author of a new book called The Quants. His book tells the story of how mathematics took over trading on Wall Street. I haven’t read the book yet (just downloaded on Kindle), but based on the teaser text at Amazon, I was disappointed to see that the author felt the need to tie...
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