Questions tagged [trading]
Attempting to profit from short-term fluctuations in a security's price as opposed to investing in the security for use or income.
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Is there a API to obtain real-time forex data in seconds?
I wanted to get sell, buy and recent trades of a currency in intervals of seconds but was only able to find APIs which offer a minimum interval of one minute (I checked Polygon and Alpha Advantage). ...
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Academic literature on quantitative trading [duplicate]
I’m looking for an academic paper (a survey) on quantitative (algorithmic) trading. Not for a list of resources, a survey on popular strategies,history and so on.
Those that I came across are heavily ...
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Continuous prediction vs Event-based predictions
When making a high-frequency or mid-frequency prediction on an assets return, what are the advantages and disadvantages of making a continuous prediction vs a prediction that only fires on a ...
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What is the difference between Flow Trading and Market Making? [closed]
Are there two definitions to Flow Trading? From reading online, I've gathered two, but I'm not sure if I am mistaken, so a little bit of clarification would be very much appreciated.
(1) Flow Trading -...
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Using LGD (Loss Given Default) in the trading of bonds
Do you use the LGD as a risk management tool when trading credit cash bonds? Or it's more for trading the loan product.
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How to intuitively size bets with the Kelly criterion?
In real life trading games, let's suppose we're rolling two dice and trading on their sum, and I have a bankroll of $100. Let's suppose we wanted a 1-wide market on the sum, how should I size my bets? ...
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Comparing Volatility [closed]
Sorry for asking beginner level question. I want to compare Volatility of two different years of Nasdaq. I thought to compute true range (TR) on daily data and then average out TR values of this year ...
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How to choose limit prices on IR futures when targeting a specific 2s10s spread?
I understand the concept of DV01s and when doing an interest rate future trade I need to use about a 2:1 ratio when trying to trade the 2s10s. This is explained here:
https://www.cmegroup.com/...
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Market Making Game Strategy with Information Imbalance
I have a final round with a market making firm coming up and will be asked to play several market making games. I wanted to ask for advice on how to approach these games, especially with an ...
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Replicating Dispersion Trade with Vanilla Options
I'm studying dispersion strategies and would like to know if one can replicate a payoff of dispersion with a strike as per below (e.g. a basket of 10 stocks and strike = 19%) with vanilla options.
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How to lower intraday trading commisions [closed]
I’ve been running an algo in paper trading (on Interactive Brokers) that I would like to switch over to live. It makes anywhere between 20-40 trades a day, which racks up a lot of commissions. Any ...
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Maximum Drawdown in Log
N. Taleb on Twitter and in a video has said we should consider a log of drawdown of financial assets because in his words
Log makes things symmetric, from [0, \infty] into [-\infty, \infty]
If P is ...
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What does it mean to "sell skew to buy vol"? [closed]
A bit confused here. Skew can mean so many different things. It can mean the different IVs along the strike axis (sometimes called vertical skew), can mean the IVs along term structure (sometimes ...
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Uncorrelation between SP500 and USDJPY?
I'm planning to start a strategy on SP500 hedging losses on USDJPY, because USD usually goes the opposite of SP500. I'm also considering other symbols (USDCAD, USDCHF, USDX) I just took the charts of ...
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Interest rate swap Profit and loss attribution
I am wondering how the IRS daily PnL will normally be attributed from trader's/market risk perspective.
Will it be broken down into three parts daily carry (Daily interest accrual), daily roll-down (...
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Trading based on the log return series
A common strategy in trading is to use a bollinger band system. Simply put, we bet on reversion to the mean and take the opposite trade to the current movement under the assumption a move is overdone.
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Does anyone know where to practice mental math for trader interviews?
I am currently using zetamac (has customizable number ranges but doesn't allow for decimals), tradermath (seems to be made to resemble the actual test for flow but costs money unfortunately), and ...
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Assistance understanding relation between the "Bid-ask bounce" and the "Tick rule"+"Quote rule"
I need some assistance in understanding the relation between the "bid-ask bounce" and "the tick rule" + "quote rule".
The two rules mentioned above are used to classify ...
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How to correctly explain the current price action in a trading chart with the Hurst Exponent found?
I watched this video tutorial to learn how to estimate the Hurst Exponent using an Excel spreadsheet and a time series sample of 1025 data.
I decided to use futures 1H markPriceKlines data from ...
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Hedging large single asset positions
I recently came across an article that described how big market participants like GS, JPM, etc. take off large equity positions (block trades) of their clients, and putting that risk on their own ...
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Book recommendations for derivatives [duplicate]
I would like to ask you, if you could suggest me a good book regarding derivatives. Specifically, i would like a book which is more focused on how the derivatives are working and traded in practise ...
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How to train mental math for trading? [duplicate]
I have a mental math test coming up for a quantitative trading firm. Anyone knows good websites to practice?
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What is the Accumulation/Distribution formula doing geometrically?
My understanding of the essence of the Accumulation/Distribution Index is that it tracks the closing price of a security during each period relative to its price range for that period, something like ...
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How to optimize the finding of divergences between 2 signals
I am trying to create an indicator that will find all the divergences between 2 signals.
(A divergence being defined as t1, t2 such that one signal increases between t1 and t2 while the other ...
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implied vol smile relative to atm vols
Am I correct in saying that most stochastic vol models are meant to behave in a way that as atm vol goes up the smile comes down and risk reversals become "less stretched?" - by that i mean ...
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Open Interest on Stocks
According to the first bullet point in this explanation, "In the stock market, open interest is the number of buy orders submitted before the market opens. When the open interest is high, people ...
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Does anyone know of any brokerages that allow trades to be placed in prices out to the 5th decimal place?
I have owned a penny stock for a while now that typically trades between \$0.0002 and \$0.0003. The thing is, though, that it most frequently trades BETWEEN those two price points and doesn't actually ...
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How the vwap band is defined?
https://www.prorealcode.com/prorealtime-indicators/vwap-bands/
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/vwap.asp
I don't see a clear definition of the vwap bands. There can be several reasonable ways to ...
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What advantage does cash-settled futures have over spot? [closed]
For example with bitcoin there is both the spot market and a cash-settled quarterly futures market.
As a buyer when would I want to buy quarterly futures instead of just buying on the spot market?
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Systematic trading strategies - Selling 1M Straddle
I am trying to compute the daily P&L of the following systematic trading strategy: sell each day a 1M straddle on EUR-USD from 04th January, 1999 to today. My dataset contains the strike, the spot,...
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Momentum Indicators/Oscellators for Trading
The concept of momentum in trading is a bit weird to me.
It seems to me to be measuring a first derivative or first difference of price, or something in that ballpark depending on the exact formulae ...
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S&P e mini price difference between close and opening
Why on some days is there a price gap on the S&P futures market. Meaning why is there a major difference in the closing price and opening price. Example on 2/18/2022 market closed at 4343.5 and ...
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Formal definition of Open-High-Low-Close (OHLC) price data
I am trying to understand Open-High-Low-Close (OHLC) data. Several sources agree in the following type of definition (Source):
An OHLC chart is a type of bar chart that shows open, high, low, and
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Interest Rate Options - OTC vs Exchange, vol difference
I understand that Exchange Traded Interest Options (USD Libor 3m or Euribor 3m) trade with a lower volatility than the respective Cap or Floor for an equivalent structure.
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TradingView STC vs any python STC
I am trying to use in a trading strategy the STC indicator, but I can not find out why its not working properly.
The chart that I am using is BTC/USDT on UTC as a timeframe.
Chart time: 01 Feb 22 - 16:...
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Relative Strength in Altcoins compared to Bitcoin
I trade stocks using relative strength analysis compared with S&P index. I was wondering if crypto traders do the same compared with Bitcoin price %change. These coins had a higher %gain than btc ...
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You are long a hedged ATM SPX Call and the market moves down. Do you gain or lose in volatility terms?
The shape of the volatility curve in index options trading typically shows that the 'just' OTM Calls (ITM Puts) options have the lowest implied volatility.
If you are long an ATM Call and the market ...
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Should Cross-Currency Basis Swaps exchanging risk free rates trade flat?
In the paper "Interest Rate Parity, Money Market Basis Swaps, and Cross-Currency Basis Swaps" by Bruce Tuckman and Pedro Porfirio (2003) the authors claim that cross-currency basis swap ...
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Free paper trading with api
Im currently using Alpaca but I want to switch the service since it had some major outages. Does anyone know a good reliable free broker with paper trading and api so I can test my trading bot.
Thanks
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Problem with trying to code Chaikin Money Flow in MT4
I followed along in the video linked below and wrote the code exactly as he did, but it came up with 8 errors and 2 warnings. Below the video link is a link to the code I wrote by following the ...
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Correct return calculation if short position involved
I wanted to calculate the daily return for a long-short position. Say one has 1 unit of stock A (long) and alpha units of stock B short. How can one now calculate correctly the daily percentage return?...
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Trading currency on Kraken.com platform using their REST API (AddOrder), is this correct?
I would like some confirmation on whether what I came up for buying/selling currency on kraken.com is valid.
Right now I get ...
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Vocabulary: "Well Bid" and "Fading" Meaning?
I think it is important quants understand what traders are talking about. With that, what does it mean:
"vol is well bid"
"fade the trade"
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Is there a financial instrument that is exposed to the change in growth of an asset over time?
Is there a financial instrument that is exposed to the rate of change of the value of a specific asset? If I believe a stock price will continue to grow in the future, but grow more slowly than in the ...
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Delta of FX Options, Different Currency in Trading Book - Trading Interview Question
Having done stochastic analysis in university, together with tons of other math courses, do never prepare you for an actual interview in trading. Stumbled on what I believe might be an easy question, ...
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What is C++ used for when writing code at High Frequency Trading firms?
Okay. This might be a pretty dumb question, but I really want to know what is it that the high frequency trading firms write in terms of services that requires C++.
Background
I am a Rust and ...
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Purpose of Vega Hedging
I am trying to understand the principle of vega hedging.
When should a market maker vega hedge his position ?
Let's suppose that a market maker delta and gamma hedge himself, and carries his position (...
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What is the difference between "disposition effect" and "contrarian trading strategy"?
It is not a good comparison when I compare an effect and a trading strategy. However, I see the meaning fo these two concepts are quite similar.
Disposition effect is that "the tendency of ...
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Why GameStop is a case of "predatory trading"?
Predatory trading is defined as below by Brunnermeier, 2005
This paper studies predatory trading, trading that induces and/or
exploits the need of other investors to reduce their positions. We
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How to clarify "Predatory trading" process?
Brunnermeier, 2005 studied the "predatory trading"
This paper studies predatory trading, trading that induces and/or
exploits the need of other investors to reduce their positions. We
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