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What data sources are available online?

apr 24 at 9:44 haki 101

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Video lectures and presentations on quantitative finance

research finance education big-list

jan 12 at 22:23 André Christoffer Andersen 141

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What concepts are the most dangerous ones in quantitative finance work?

theory academia

mar 1 at 14:37 kurast 166

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Innovative ways of visualizing financial data

data derivatives visualization

jun 27 at 10:06 Mark Boulder 101

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Efficiently storing real-time intraday data in an application agnostic way

time-series software performance database column-oriented

jul 10 at 0:15 Darren Cook 570

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How do I graphically represent the evolution of a covariance matrix over time?

time-series correlation covariance

apr 26 '12 at 13:15 Qbik 350

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Option pricing before Black-Scholes

options history black-scholes

dec 14 at 13:40 vonjd 6,299

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How 'High' is the frequency in HFT?

strategy hft high-frequency

apr 17 '12 at 19:57 vonjd 6,299

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Why does the minimum variance portfolio provide good returns?

portfolio-management optimization modern-portfolio-theory covariance

mar 19 at 14:16 chrisaycock♦ 5,250

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What type of investor is willing to be short gamma?

options hedging portfolio-management greeks investing

mar 26 '12 at 12:40 Community♦ 1

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What types of neural networks are most appropriate for trading?

quant-trading-strategies forecasting high-frequency machine-learning

oct 18 '11 at 21:15 Tal Fishman 6,740

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Excellent information source on advanced machine learning / data mining based trading?

automated-trading machine-learning

apr 12 '12 at 18:33 rtybase 66

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Most successful investors using academic-based framework?

quant-trading-strategies research factor-models academia big-list

jan 3 '12 at 13:20 olaker♦ 2,303

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Tests that any system must pass to be taken seriously

testing

apr 12 '12 at 8:04 vonjd 6,299

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What kind of basic framework or application do you use to run your trading algorithms?

data software api algorithm

feb 9 '11 at 3:59 Community♦ 1

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What are some useful approximations to the Black-Scholes formula?

options option-pricing optimization

sep 7 at 20:57 Robert 309

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Main backtesting & trading solutions: QuantFactory, Deltix, etc.

backtesting automated-trading software trading-systems

nov 19 at 21:07 Vazgen 172

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Recommendations for books to understand the math in quantitative finance papers?

soft-question books mathematics

nov 29 at 5:57 William S. Wong 310

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Are there ways to measure the risk aversion of a representative investor, based on publicly available market data?

research reference-request market risk-premium

mar 29 '12 at 10:21 Vishal Belsare 432

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Skew arbitrage: How can you realize the skewness of the underlying?

options volatility trading hedging option-strategies

dec 7 at 19:14 chrisaycock♦ 5,250

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From a high frequency point of view, with a price prediction and assuming infinite leverage, how do you determine optimal trade size?

quant-trading-strategies high-frequency modeling position-sizing

mar 29 at 20:32 Ryogi 1,827

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Switching from Matlab to Python for Quant Trading and Research

quant-trading-strategies

dec 29 at 10:15 Joern 9

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Variable Selection in factor models

cointegration factor-models information

sep 9 '11 at 19:20 Tal Fishman 6,740

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statistical arbitrage option overlay strategies / volatility trading

volatility quant-trading-strategies trading option-strategies

may 29 '12 at 14:51 John 1,626

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Parameter estimation of Ornstein–Uhlenbeck and CIR processes

stochastic-processes kalman parameter-estimation

1d ago Veeken 127

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portfolio optimisation with VaR (or CVaR) constraints

portfolio-management optimization var

jan 13 at 13:29 Marc Shivers 424

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R: How feasible is it to store — and work with — tick data in a database connected to R?

data high-frequency r tick-data database

feb 8 '12 at 1:08 Darren Cook 570

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What are some research articles on using principle components to generate alpha?

statistics modeling random-matrix-theory

feb 25 at 12:31 Andre P. 11

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Creating an n-factor Certainty Equivalent Discounting Formula

valuation risk-premium

apr 10 '12 at 12:11 Community♦ 1

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Reference request: Survey article on GPU in Finance

programming hardware gpgpu

oct 18 at 15:48 Quartz 326

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