The Do's and Don't's of Quant Trading

The best advice on how to thrive, or at least survive, in the increasingly competitive world of quantitative trading. Topics include optimal leverage, performance momentum, infrastructure investment, strategies selection, and collaboration.
Dr. Ernest Chan is the Managing Member of QTS Capital Management, LLC., a commodity pool operator and trading advisor. He began his career as a machine learning researcher at IBM’s Human Language Technologies Group, and later joined Morgan Stanley’s Data Mining Group. He was also a quantitative researcher and proprietary trader for Credit Suisse. Ernie is the author of “Machine Trading”, “Algorithmic Trading”, and “Quantitative Trading”, all published by Wiley, and a popular financial blogger at epchan.blogspot.com. He also teaches at the Master of Science in Predictive Analytics program at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell University.
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[@rednaxofficial]

Always so insightful to listen to Dr Chan, although I have to admit, my life kind of fell apart at 31:52 xD

[@ahmadaboeleneen3357]

Thank you for sharing experience

[@lautaroparada950]

This speaker is great.

[@navketan1965]

Sir, In pars trading can one trade spread between SP500 & Nasdq 100 based just on market sentiment of broad market/major indices.When sentiment is bullish,Nasdq100 would outperform SP 500 index.And in bearish scene vice versa.Same may be applied for pairs trading SP500 & Dow 30.In weak market Dow 30 would hold better & go down less compared to SP500/nasdq100.We seek your wisdom.Thank you.

[@user-pr4jg3sn2j]

29:45

[@kevinr8431]

Does anybody do quant trading in 2024?