Preprocessing – Feature Generation

Price and volume data is the easiest to acquire and holds quite a bit of information. Preprocessing is the technique…

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Statistical Learning Papers

I've been lucky with the past few papers I've read which have been interesting and well-written. These first two were…

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Volatility vs. Leverage

Recently I've been curious about volatility and leverage. Here's the problem: let's say you make or lose 10% of your…

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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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