Quantitative Trading news from FierceFinanceIT

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... Read more...

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... Read more...

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... Read more...

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... Read more...

"Computers and data are smarter than people," says Colin Hill, the physicist who founded Gene Network Sciences, which is best known for its use of supercomputers to help drug companies devise new... Read more...

There's been no shortage of smart trading solutions to emerge in recent years, and yet, the view right now is that clients are more than dissatisfied. Bob McDowall of the TowerGroup tells Financial... Read more...

Quants are in heavy demand these days, despite the recent hedge fund turmoil. In a way, it's "Revenge of the Nerds" meets "Wall Street." The geekier the better. Computer science is almost... Read more...

Quantitative hedge funds took some big hits in all the market turmoil. To some, this discredited the quant approach. For some, the case for this was strong. The computer-driven trading models all... Read more...

The rise of lower-cost IT systems has been a huge boon to the many quantitative hedge funds and quant system providers out there. The credit crunch has led to a bit of handwringing over the future... Read more...