Investment Trading

We have a unique mix of in-house faculty members from the industry who are day-to-day traders. With stellar academic backgrounds our faculty members are frequently invited at various global conferences, workshops and seminars on algorithmic and high-frequency trading. We often hold webinars to educate the masses with latest updates and strategies in algorithmic trading. With such a robust faculty, we are able to bridge the gap between recent and cutting edge research and its application in the HFT scenario.

This blog covers in brief the concept of strategy back-testing using R. Before dwelling into the trading jargons using R let us spend some time understanding what R is. R is an open source. There are more than 4000 add on packages,18000 plus members of LinkedIn’s group and close to 80 R Meetup groups currently in existence. It is a perfect tool for statistical analysis especially for data analysis. The concise setup of Comprehensive R Archive Network knows as CRAN provides you the list of packages along with the base installation required. There are lot of packages available depending upon the analysis needs to be done. To implement the trading strategy, we will use the package called quantstrat.

President Barack Obama released in August the final version of his climate policy and energy use program, the Clean Power Plan. The plan, if it passes, will allow the EPA to set carbon emissions targets for every state in the country. States will be required to meet the targets by changing energy sources.

How does someone value a startup? It’s an excellent question. The startup valuation math is a dark science. It seems more like tarot card reading and crystal ball soothsaying than actual math. There are a lot of ways to value a startup. It’s not like an established company where you can look at a balance sheet, revenue, and do a discounted cash flow analysis to try and figure out a value.

Oaktree Capital's chairman Howard Marks is out with his latest memo. Entitled "It's Not Easy," Marks this time around focuses on lessons from Charlie Munger, the concept of second level thinking and how important it is.

FX Quant Strategy provides a quantitative overview of the currency market, including several valuation tools and monitors, focusing on the FX options market.

This blog covers in brief the concept of strategy back-testing using R. Before dwelling into the trading jargons using R let us spend some time understanding what R is. R is an open source. There are more than 4000 add on packages,18000 plus members of LinkedIn’s group and close to 80 R Meetup groups currently in existence. It is a perfect tool for statistical analysis especially for data analysis. The concise setup of Comprehensive R Archive Network knows as CRAN provides you the list of packages along with the base installation required. There are lot of packages available depending upon the analysis needs to be done. To implement the trading strategy, we will use the package called quantstrat.

Great documentary on the City of London from the BBC - Outlines the financial history and the culture that is all about - money power and greed. The City of London is one of the major centres for trading Forex, commodities and shares and this guide is both informative and also, makes you understand why another financial crisis is coming .

Basic types of options Call option Put Option •A call option is the right to buy •A put option is the right to sell Strike Price

QuantInsti “Executive Programme in Algorithmic Trading” is a unique course both in terms of the level of detail as well as the breadth of its scope. It is aimed at sell-side or a buy-side executives, brokers, regulator, or fund manager in charge of implementing technology systems for your business; or professional traders. It provides insights on the fundamentals of electronic trading and the technological solutions for implementing them.

Execution Algorithms provide a price which is between Limit Order Execution and Market Order Execution. Market Orders guarantee execution within a certain time but the price that it may get the trader remains uncertain. Limit Order guarantees the price but it may remain unexecuted if price moves away. Most Execution Algorithms balance between the two order types.

Money managers’ net-long position in West Texas Intermediate rose by 14,821 contracts to 147,678 futures and options in the week ended Sept. 15, according to data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. That’s the highest level since July 7. In contrast, traders curbed their bullish positions in European benchmark Brent by the most in a month.

A traditional trading system would consist of a system to read data, a storehouse of historical data, a tool to analyze historical data, a system to submit trading inputs and a system to route orders to the exchange. Exchange sends the tick by tick data.

Mr. Rajib Ranjan Borah, Co-Founder of QuantInsti, shares his expertise and knowledge about News Based Trading Strategies and his experience during the Finbridge Event in March 2015.

Wednesday is all about personal finance here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at getting started in your financial life.

Markets opened higher on Friday following comments on Thursday evening from Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen that seemed to signal a Fed Funds rate hike by the end of this year. The final second quarter GDP estimate came in at 3.9%, better than expected. Stocks traded higher until mid-afternoon on Friday Equities were headed for a mixed close shortly before the closing bell as the DJIA traded up 0.69% for the day, the S&P 500 traded up 0.02%, and the Nasdaq Composite traded down 0.95%.

This colorful specimen is a chart we have used in NFTRH along with all the other indicators, economic data points and yes, straight technicals we have used to gauge the coming of the current questionable (at best) stock market environment.

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Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) leading company in India’s stock market has spoken out once again regarding need of bond market electronic centralization. Actually this is the reiterating proposal of leading stock market companies from many years. After multiple iterations, the stock exchange in India introduced ‘Automated Trading System (ATS)’ to bonds in the year 2012. Although ATS got introduced early, till today no bonds got traded through this system. It means ATS is not in use till today. Currently, almost all the stock markets around the world are using ATS except India.

According to the sources, the India’s largest airline company IndiGo has made a record in its profit, which is ahead of IPO. The company has made a profit of 13.04 billion rupees, which is equal to $196 million. This was a report submitted by the company at the year end, i.e. on March. This is considered to be a record in the company’s history.

A project of the Sadbav infrastructure has risen about Rs. 210 crores in the IPO with the Anchor Investors. The IPO of the company has started on Monday. The company has actually allotted about 2.03 crores of shares that was planned to be sold at the initial price of Rs. 103 crores. This was expected to aggregate a total of Rs. 210 crores as mentioned in the statement given by the company itself. The anchor investors for the company are the HDFC Mutual Fund, SBI MF, TATA AIA Life, Amansa, Morgan Stanley, Nomura MF and the Tata MF.

A position in risk management is intellectually stimulating. After the market downturn of 2008 risk management has gained prominence in terms of growth as well as financial reward. Career path begins as a risk analyst and can take various routes depending upon the industry type and exposure.

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In yet another wild week, the markets showed a lot more strength as the third-quarter earnings started to hit the tape fast and furious. With many analysts expecting the second straight quarter of year-over-year earnings to drop, anxious investors have been watching releases closely to see how their holdings have fared.