Software Engineers for Strategy Architecture

1. Currencies
2. Commodities
3. Bonds
4. Stocks

and the chain reactions created by global events such as inflation, growth rates, manufacturing, employment, interest rates etc.

101: Reasons to trade are all around us e.g. countries worldwide regularly trade with each other due to differences in:

1. Technology: ability to turn their resources into outputs like goods and services
2. Resource Endowments: current natural resources or capital stock
3. Demand/Preferences: Chinese may demand more rice, Japanese more fish ...
4. Economies of Scale: unit production costs fall as the scale of production rises
5. Government Policy: tax and subsidies can shift prices

Quantitative Analysis

Our skill set includes finance, mathematics, programming, backtesting and data science, an ideal combination when we want to analyse e.g.

1. large/complex data sets, quickly
2. market action

To help find a sustainable edge for algorithmic trading ...

Algorithmic Trading

A computer program (algorithm) that efficently employs one or more trading strategies to strip out emotions whilst trading ...

e.g. for a simple moving average strategy, a computer program will automatically monitor the stock price, the moving average indicators (and any other dependants) and wait for the defined buy/sell conditions to be met. The traders function is only to monitor/enable/disable the algorithm that will automatically identify/execute the trade.

... in a nutshell

Where possible, the best trades come from markets:

1. where trends are dramatic, in one clear direction for an extended period of time
2. where specialist skills (geopolitical, risk management etc.) can be capitalized

And worst trades come from markets:

1. where moves typically last a few seconds or minutes
2. where potentially high value deal/information flows are obfuscated

Further drilling down into your ideas often reveal secondary nuggets of data that help correlate/forecast markets (beyond the scope of this introduction) but as a general rule, don't start a trading plan without a solid reason that you understand. Take your time to question everything and don't readily accept value from a 3rd party source.

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