Quantitative trading is an approach that is normally associated with institutional investors handling huge sums of money, but technological advances have made it easier for amateur and individual ...

Experienced trader and quantitative strategist, specializing in strategic market analysis, explains how cognitive patterns ...

In recent posts, I have been focused on algorithm nuances that can have disproportionate effects on algorithm performance. In this post, I am going to move in the opposite direction and discuss a much ...

Algorithm trading firms, also known as quantitative trading firms, are financial organizations that use sophisticated algorithms and mathematical models to make investment decisions in financial ...

Trading algorithms are continuing to gain traction among the buy side, with respondents to a recent report indicating they are using automated tools more than ever. It is further validation of their ...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is now weighing in on all things regarding algorithmic trading. On its website, the European regulator has published a new report that summarizes its viewpoint on ...

In North America and Europe, high-frequency trading (HFT) has been put under the microscope. Flash crashes—the most recent of which befell the British pound on October 7—price volatility, heaps of ...

The first type of algo trading strategy that we'll talk about is an arbitrage strategy. Arbitrage strategies use price differentials to generate risk free profit. Although these price differentials ...