How many families have two brothers who’ve been in the hedge fund game for 30+ years, much less on polar opposites of the long vol/short vol spectrum. We’re talking with the volatility loving, positive skew seeking brother in our episode today, Roy Niederhoffer. Roy is the founder and President of the eponymous R. G. Niederhoffer […]
Category: Quants
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Mar
2021
19
Nov
2020
The Mysteries and Makings of Machine Learning with Dr. Ernie Chan of QTS Cap on The Derivative
Does all this Machine Learning stuff really work? If it’s so good, why aren’t AI powered hedge funds printing money? And what is the difference between AI, machine learning, deep learning, machine trading, and more. Today’s guest is one that’s been at the center of the AI/MT/ML universe for over four decades. Ernie Chan runs […]
15
May
2020
Uncovering the Known Unknowns of the Pandemic on The Derivative
In today’s episode, we have a little different structure and three unique guests to bring a fresh twist on The Derivative podcast. Blu Putnam of the CME Group, Rodrigo Gordillo of ReSolve Asset Management, and Dan Deering of Teza Technologies join us to discuss the economic & strategy impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Listening today […]
07
May
2020
Tackling Trading Technologies and (lower case t) technology with Guy Scott of TT on The Derivative
Futures traders take clicking a price to generate an order on their PCs for granted these days, much less the instant delivery of every tick, order book data, and trade fills. But how does it all work? And how did it used to all work?? Lucky for you, we’ve got one of the experts from […]
05
Nov
2019
Data costs are huge, and there’s nothing anybody can do about it…
We’ve talked at length about the move to algorithmic trading, the quant revolution and the billions of dollars that investors have been pouring into the space. But all isn’t rainbows and lollipops in the quant world these days. While the growth and general spend on quants is still growing, the data costs associated with these […]
