Condé Nast Portfolio Article

I was included in a recent article on the future of quantitative finance:Future of Wall Street: Rise of the MachinesSam…

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Alternative Hardware

I recently became aware of two technologies which I highly doubt I will have the opportunity to test due to…

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Papers and Matlab Files

Matlab has been really fun to learn so far. It's easy to write useful code with very few lines. In…

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QQQQ Intraday Data

Here's one day of intraday ticks and quotes for Qs: Trades. Quotes.

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Conceptualizing Learning Error

When you are trying to find the correct equation to model and predict financial data, you will always have some…

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Risk-taking

I'm reading The Poker Face of Wall Street by Aaron Brown. The first half has been very good so I'll…

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Probability of Ruin

Catalan Numbers are an interesting way of modeling the probability of ruin.Specifically, Catalan Numbers help find the probability that a…

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IB Olympiad System Outline: v.2

I previously posted a system outline and before that a trading plan for Interactive Brokers' Collegiate Olympiad. The criticism I…

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SKF: Inverse Construction and Volatility

I previously explained why market returns should be lognormally distributed with positive daily expectation (not continuous). However, imagine a security…

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India Trip

I've been in Mumbai since January 3rd and I'm leaving on the 16th. If anyone is interested in meeting for…

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