Trader & Trader Related Posts and News

A trader is anyone who buys and sells in the financial markets for the purpose of achieving short-term gains (alpha.)  Traders today utilize execution management systems to watch the prices in the market and to execute their orders.

The following are posts and links that are interesting to traders and those who want to move from trading into algorithmic trading and who are seeking capital for trading.

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Conversations: Effects of Alternative Data Sets on Trading Algorithms

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What effect can alternative data sets have on trading algorithms? We asked a few of our teammates and systematic traders what the effect of alternative data sets is on trading algos. We thought we could spread some insight as to why our alternative…
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Quantitative Trading & Algos in the news. 24, May 2018

Quantitative Trading and Algo news from the CloudQuant news crawler covering topics including: $20M USD allocation to crowd researcher, Trajectory of the U.S. business cycle, Equity market innovation, Ninja trader, financial sector uptrends, Fixed income market innovation, and more

Market Turmoil Generates Opportunity for Proprietary Traders

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In these times of market turmoil and volatility, the Kershner Trading Group stands ready to provide traders with a firm built on a strong foundation of significant capital investment, innovation-focused trading technology and decades of experience in the active and proprietary trading space. Kershner Trading is actively seeking experienced US Equities Traders
Trading Strategy Scorecard from CloudQuant

52 Traders Interviews Morgan Slade

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The podcast on Massive 30,000 Trades Daily, High-Frequency Quant Trading with Morgan Slade including an interesting breakout trading strategy.
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Deep Dive With JLN: How Can The Financial Industry Draw In The Next Generation Of Talent?

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The former trading floors provided a sense of community. Electronic trading communities like CloudQuant provide a bright future for new traders.
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Built in Chicago: Wanna try your hand at high-frequency trading? There's an app for that

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Built in Chicago discusses CloudQuant, a Chicago-based algorithmic trading startup, lets anyone try their hand at devising their own strategies.
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New York, midtown - Experienced Quantitative Portfolio Manager or Strategist

CloudQuant’s Global Systematic Trading unit is seeking experienced Quantitative Portfolio Managers and Strategists for the U.S. equity market. Ideal candidates will have an MS or Ph.D. in an Engineering or Pure Science discipline from a top school with formal academic coursework in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Digital Signal Processing,
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Chicago - Experienced Quantitative Portfolio Manager or Strategist

CloudQuant’s Global Systematic Trading unit is seeking experienced Quantitative Portfolio Managers and Strategists for the U.S. equity market. Ideal candidates will have an MS or Ph.D. in an Engineering or Pure Science discipline from a top school with formal academic coursework in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Digital Signal Processing,
San Francisco

San Francisco - Experienced Quantitative Portfolio Manager or Strategist

CloudQuant’s Global Systematic Trading unit is seeking experienced Quantitative Portfolio Managers and Strategists for the U.S. equity market. Ideal candidates will have an MS or Ph.D. in an Engineering or Pure Science discipline from a top school with formal academic coursework in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Digital Signal Processing,
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Algorithms for Trading

The hardest part of starting any project, including building a quantitative trading strategy, is figuring out where to start. To that end, this post covers a basic overview of a few algorithms for trading. We hope to help you get your creative energy to level up.