Monday, March 12, 2012

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Video: Algos: Whatâs Happening Now

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 04:45 AM PDT

A short interview with Owain Self, UBS’s Gobal Head of Algorithmic Trading.read more...

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I have to say @TheEconomist Debates Feature is pretty cool: Up right now - High-frequency trading http://t.co/G0QodnVf #hft #tcm

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 04:30 AM PDT

moneyscience: I have to say @TheEconomist Debates Feature is pretty cool: Up right now - High-frequency trading http://t.co/G0QodnVf #hft #tcm

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I have to say @TheEconomist Debates Feature is pretty cool: Up right now - High-frequency trading http://t.co/uOa45wDD #hft #tcm

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 04:30 AM PDT

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Blog Post: HighFrequencyTradingReview: Opening Cross: Low Latency, High Capacity, Non-Display: The Effects on FX and Beyond [Inside Market Data]

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 03:31 AM PDT

By Max Bowie read more...

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Blog Post: PatrickBurns: The quality of variance matrix estimation

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 03:07 AM PDT

A bit of testing of the estimation of the variance matrix for S&P 500 stocks in 2011.read more...

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The changing nature of cloud adoption - http://t.co/jNFjDfZg #tcm

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 03:04 AM PDT

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RT @carlcarrie: Video - Algorithmic Trading Exec discusses latest trends http://t.co/BuEJewoW #HFT #Trading

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 03:04 AM PDT

moneyscience: RT @carlcarrie: Video - Algorithmic Trading Exec discusses latest trends http://t.co/BuEJewoW #HFT #Trading

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The changing nature of cloud adoption - http://t.co/7qT8MjrX #tcm

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 02:49 AM PDT

fin_tech: The changing nature of cloud adoption - http://t.co/7qT8MjrX #tcm

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RT @carlcarrie: Video - Algorithmic Trading Exec discusses latest trends http://t.co/d7cVBZc1 #HFT #Trading

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 02:49 AM PDT

fin_tech: RT @carlcarrie: Video - Algorithmic Trading Exec discusses latest trends http://t.co/d7cVBZc1 #HFT #Trading

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Anonymous: dangerous or laughable?

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 01:40 AM PDT

We have seen a great deal of activity from the activist online community called Anonymous in the last year.read more...

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Blog Post: WealthandCapitalMarketsBlog: Changing nature of cloud adoption

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 01:00 AM PDT

The concepts of data centres and virtualization have been around for long but the buzz and the hype around cloud computing has been a recent phenomenon. While the general buzz is high for cloud, the adoption rates have been much lower than expected.read more...

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Banks' macho culture 'holds women back' - organisations are "filtering out" top female talent at all levels http://t.co/XMwZ9k1a #tcm

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 12:27 AM PDT

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Blog Post: PsyFiBlog: Hubble, Bubble, Index Trouble

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 12:06 AM PDT

Consequences, Consequences In a world in which our behavioral biases are continually encouraging us to stray into temptation, or at least into the grasping hands of the securities industry, we have to look for whatever small mercies we can find. Not the least amongst these is the humble index tracking fund, an asset type specifically created to minimise the opportunity for self-inflicted...

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Published / Preprint: New: Getting at Systemic Risk Via an Agent-Based Model of the Housing Market

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 10:17 PM PDT

Systemic risk must include the housing market, though economists have not generally focused on it. We begin construction of an agent-based model of the housing market with individual data from Washington, DC. Twenty years of success with agent-based models of mortgage prepayments give us hope that such a model could be useful. Preliminary analysis suggests that the housing boom and bust of...

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Published / Preprint: New: Leverage Causes Fat Tails and Clustered Volatility

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 10:16 PM PDT

We build a simple model of leveraged asset purchases with margin calls. Investment funds use what is perhaps the most basic financial strategy, called "value investing," i.e., systematically attempting to buy underpriced assets. When funds do not borrow, the price fluctuations of the asset are approximately normally distributed and uncorrelated across time. This changes when the funds are allowed...

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Published / Preprint: New: Heterogeneity, Correlations and Financial Contagion

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 10:16 PM PDT

We consider a model of contagion in financial networks recently introduced in the literature, and we characterize the effect of a few features empirically observed in real networks on the stability of the system. Notably, we consider the effect of heterogeneous degree distributions, heterogeneous balance sheet size and degree correlations between banks. We study the probability of contagion...

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Published / Preprint: New: How Does the Market React to Your Order Flow?

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 10:16 PM PDT

We present an empirical study of the intertwined behaviour of members in a financial market. Exploiting a database where the broker that initiates an order book event can be identified, we decompose the correlation and response functions into contributions coming from different market participants and study how their behaviour is interconnected. We find evidence that (1) brokers are very...

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Blog Post: Falkenblog: Are High Beta Assets Really Low Risk?

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 08:16 PM PDT

At Friday's conference, Sam Wilderman of GMO articulated his diagnosis of the low volatility anomaly: high beta stocks are low risk. He seems like a good guy, merely confused, so as a public service I'll try to explain why this makes about as much sense as the qwerty keyboard.His basic idea comes from the finding that high beta stocks tend to have higher betas in bull markets (good!) and lower...

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Blog Post: TimingLogic: 70% Of U.S. Ground Beef Contains 'Pink Slimeâ

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 06:36 PM PDT

Forty years ago we had literally thousands of meat processors in this country.  When we had family farms and meat was produced and sold locally, oftentimes grocery stores would butcher their own local meat.  There were even meat butchers who had their own retail establishments.  Kids used to go to trade school to learn the craft of butchering.   I’ve helped butcher farm...

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Blog Post: AllAboutAlpha: Video: Ken Shoji, Founder & Managing Partner, Stissing Lake Advisors

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 05:47 PM PDT

From Lynne Feldman, Director of Marketing at the CAIA Association: Ken Shoji, Chief Operating Officer, GSB Podium Advisors LLC, discusses risk management in hedge funds, including measurement, analysis, and reporting; liquidity management; risk budgeting and allocation; and tail risk strategies . Mr. Shoji spoke with Wendy L. Coleman, CAIA, CFA, FRM, Senior Advisor to the CAIA [...]

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Published / Preprint: Consistent Long-Term Yield Curve Prediction. (arXiv:1203.2017v1 [q-fin.PR])

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 05:35 PM PDT

We present an arbitrage-free non-parametric yield curve prediction model which takes the full (discretized) yield curve as state variable. We believe that absence of arbitrage is an important model feature in case of highly correlated data, as it is the case for interest rates. Furthermore, the model structure allows to separate clearly the tasks of estimating the volatility structure and of...

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Published / Preprint: Hedging of Game Options With the Presence of Transaction Costs. (arXiv:1103.1165v3 [q-fin.PM] UPDATED)

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 05:35 PM PDT

We study the problem of super-replication for game options under proportional transaction costs. We consider a multidimensional continuous time model, in which the discounted stock price process satisfies the conditional full support property. We show that the super-replication price is the cheapest cost of a trivial super-replication strategy. This result is an extension of previous papers (see...

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Blog Post: TheReformedBroker: The Fed Has No Idea What Happens Next ' And Thatâs Okay

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 02:36 PM PDT

Rather than manufacturing confidence that I know what's about to happen, I now prefer to display and feel the confidence that I'll know what to do when it does happen.

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Blog Post: BCMstrategy: The Risk Telescope ' The Day After

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 01:39 PM PDT

A collective sigh of relief is nearly audible this weekend.  At least one set of contractual obligations (credit default swaps) will be honored on time, in full, and in the manner anticipated when the contracts were written.  The months-long anticipation of this event, paired with generous (3-year) bank liquidity support by the European Central Bank and the direction of official sector support...

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US Government Agencies Comparing Notes On Algo Feeds

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 01:14 PM PDT

Bloomberg Reports:read more...

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Published / Preprint: 12Mar/March 2012 Quarterly Review discusses global market repercussions of euro area sovereign debt crisis

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 01:01 PM PDT

BIS Quarterly Review - 12 March 2012 (BIS Press Release)

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Blog Post: TalesfromaTradingDesk: Windows 8 Metro ' IoC and Portable Class Libraries

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 12:51 PM PDT

CodePlex offers MetroIoc – a native WinRT Inversion of Control container, for use in Metro style apps. What is probably more interesting if that MEF in part of the Portable Class Libraries. MSDN Magaazine has an article from 2011, “Portable Class Libraries: A Primer”, which discusses DI frameworks – MEF and Unity. Finally, the BCL blog offers “Announcing Portable...

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@FelixSalmon At Columbia Journalism School: Don't Blame Journalists For Failing To Prevent Financial Crisis http://t.co/R4BEaQa2 #tcm

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 10:46 AM PDT

moneyscience: @FelixSalmon At Columbia Journalism School: Don't Blame Journalists For Failing To Prevent Financial Crisis http://t.co/R4BEaQa2 #tcm

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Pricing Climate Change - http://t.co/qKWInKcf #tcm

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 10:46 AM PDT

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An open letter to Jamie Dimon - http://t.co/aPLsdycK #tcm

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 10:46 AM PDT

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Blog Post: TheMonetaryFuture: Virtual Currencies and Roach Motels

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 01:27 AM PST

By Jon Matonis Forbes Tuesday, March 6, 2012 http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/03/06/virtual-currencies-and-roach-motels/ According to Google's Eric Schmidt at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the company once considered issuing its own digital currency for use and circulation across its expanding global platform. After reviewing various proposals for the proposed Google...

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Binary Pi

Posted: 10 Mar 2012 09:43 PM PST

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The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYlzia3F ⸠Top stories today via @isenbergumass

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 12:12 AM PST

BusinessSchools: The Financial Education Daily is out! http://t.co/TYlzia3F â–¸ Top stories today via @isenbergumass

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