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Traditional buy-side to collocate soon?
In the exchange industry, people have been talking recently about the traditional buy-side emerging as a big source of demand for collocation services. The market seems to be moving in that
Machine readable news still making gains
We've previously noted the slow, steady rise of machine readable news services over the past two years. The niche was given a massive boost by the arrival of the "big boys" who have invested
Man vs. Machines: Cliff Asness
In the world of quantitative trading, Cliff Asness might be considered one of the original gangsters, a pioneer of the quants. The Atlantic offers a nice profile of the founder of Applied
The big picture on algorithmic trading
With the great algorithmic trading debate underway, you've no doubt heard a lot of terms thrown around somewhat casually. There has certainly been a tendency to use many terms synonymously--algo
What's it really like working as a top quant at Goldman Sachs?
Antonio Garcia-Martinez was a PhD physics student at Berkeley when Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS ) got its hooks in him. He ended up signing on as a pricing quant on Goldman's credit and equity trading
Can speed be regulated?
The chairman of the SEC made some interesting comments regarding the sheer speed of the markets. The SEC ( SEC news) needs "to explore whether bids and orders should be regulated on speed so there is
Have the quants messed up the risk models?
Many of you know Paul Wilmott as sort of Wall Street's main guru on all issues quantitative and the editor of a glossy magazine that bears his name. He has some surprising things to say about risk
HFT traders versus Main Street
The rise of technology-greased high frequency trading, which has definitely caught the eyes of regulators and Congressmen, has given rise to a debate about whether such trading is good for the
High frequency shops poaching talent
There's a lot of angst over high frequency trading these days. But Wall Street has little doubt that the movement is here to stay. An obvious indicator of that is the stepped-up hiring of people with
Quant approach advocates faces a hurdle
We've noted before that winning the trading game on Wall Street depends on your ability to win the technology arms race. You've got to develop faster, more powerful methods constantly, or risk being
