# 512 search results for "Trading"

## Trading Strategy 1: What goes up, goes up…

June 26, 2013
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As I said earlier, my main task at my internship is to hunt for profitable strategies. As you can imagine, strategies can range from the exceedingly simple and easy to implement, to the crazily complex. Let’s start out with one … Continue reading →

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## Scenario analysis and trading options using R

June 16, 2013
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I present you with my restructured project on options trading and scenario analysis. You are more than welcome to try it out. Firstly, I will give a small presentation that will reveal what you can do with it and whether you need to continue reading. T...

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## Ryan Sheftel: "R on the Trading Desk"

May 30, 2013
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by Joseph Rickert In a post last week, I offered some first impressions about R/Finance 2013. Apparently, I was way off in estimating that 30% of the attendees were academics. The R/Finance organizers were quick to point out that percentage of academics attending the conference has been a constant 10% over the years; and this year was no different....

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## Trading with SVMs: Performance

December 13, 2012
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To get a feeling of SVM performance in trading, I run different setups on the S&P 500 historical data from … the 50s. The main motif behind using this decade was to decide what parameters to vary and what to keep steady prior to running the most important tests. Treat it as an “in-sample” test

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## garch and the Algorithmic Trading Conference

December 10, 2012
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The Imperial College Algorithmic Trading Conference was Saturday. Talks Massoud Mussavian Massoud gave a great talk on “Algo Evolution”.  It started with a historical review of how trading used to be done “by hand”.  It culminated in a phylogenetic tree of trading algorithms.  There was an herbivore branch and a carnivore branch. Robert Macrae Robert … Continue reading...

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## Trading with Support Vector Machines (SVM)

November 30, 2012
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Finally all the stars have aligned and I can confidently devote some time for back-testing of new trading systems, and Support Vector Machines (SVM) are the new “toy” which is going to keep me busy for a while. SVMs are a well-known tool from the area of supervised Machine Learning, and they are used both

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## Portfolio Trading

November 12, 2012
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$Portfolio Trading$

In finance and investing the term portfolio refers to the collection of assets one owns. Compared to just holding a single asset at a time a portfolio has a number of potential benefits. A universe of asset holdings within the … Continue reading →

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## R Tips for Quantitative Trading

November 10, 2012
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The article below is an updated version of an article I wrote  for R-Bloggers in August 2010. As a first post I thought it was a good idea to introduce one of the best tool out there for quantitative  trading: R R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and

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## ARMA Models for Trading

August 21, 2012
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In this tutorial I am going to share my R&D and trading experience using the well-known from statistics Autoregressive Moving Average Model (ARMA). There is a lot written about these models, however, I strongly recommend Introductory Time Series with R, which I find is a perfect combination between light theoretical background and practical implementations in

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## Pair Trading: Quick Update

April 17, 2012
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I've been working on different projects lately and my time for this blog, unfortunately, has been close to zero. But that's going to change. Don't expect new post every day, but there should be a new post at least in every two weeks. Anyway, let's get back to the point of this post. One of the readers contacted

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