Posted on October 2, 2012. Filed under: Conference, Event Announcements, Practitioners, Strategies, Technology, Workshop | Tags: The Speed Traders, High-Frequency Trading, Edgar Perez, Flash Crash, algorithmic trading, proprietary trading, CNBC, Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School, Chicago, High-Frequency Trading Book, automated trading, High-Frequency Trading Conference, Securities and Exchange Commission, BATS Trading, University of Chicago, Institutional Investors, Quantitative Trading, Commodities, The Speed Traders Workshop, High-Frequency Trading Seminar, Futures, Family Offices, Options, The Speed Traders Workshop 2012, Electronic Trading, Facebook IPO, Knight Capital, European Central Bank, Ewald Nowotny, Reuters, high-speed trades, regulatory conference, Vienna, Commodities Trading, Credit Derivatives, Dark Pools Trading, Data Monitoring / Analysis, DMA Analysts, Derivatives Trading, Electronic Execution, Equity Trading, Exchange-Traded Instruments, Financial Engineering, Fixed Income / Currencies Trading, Hedge Funds Traders and Managers, Information Technology, Investment Banking, Market Makers, Operations, Over-the-counter Derivatives, Portfolio Management, Regulatory Entities, Risk Management, Analysis and Control, Statistical Arbitrage, Structured Products Hedging, Trading Technology |
It took some time, but finally it is now a reality. The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Chicago, October 9, will finally open the door to the secretive world of high-frequency trading, the most controversial form of investing today; in the name of protecting the algorithms traders and quants had spent so much time perfecting, they almost never talked to the press and disclosed as little as possible about how they operate.
The Speed Traders Workshop 2012 Chicago promises to reveal how high-frequency trading players are succeeding in the global markets and driving the development of algorithmic trading at breakneck speeds from the U.S. and Europe to India, Singapore and Brazil. The Flash Crash, the suspended BATS IPO, the botched Facebook IPO and Knight Capital’s trading malfunction are just a few of the events in the history of high-frequency trading that will be dissected at The Speed Traders Workshop 2012.
Who should attend? Anybody involved with Algorithmic Trading, Automated Trading, Commodities, Commodities Trading, Credit Derivatives, Dark Pools Trading, Data Monitoring / Analysis, DMA Analysts, Derivatives Trading, Electronic Execution, Electronic Trading, Equity Trading, Exchange-Traded Instruments, Family Offices, Financial Engineering, Fixed Income / Currencies Trading, Futures, Hedge Funds Traders and Managers, High-Frequency Trading, Information Technology, Institutional Investors, Investment Banking, Market Makers, Operations, Options, Over-the-counter Derivatives, Portfolio Management, Proprietary Trading, Quantitative Trading, Regulatory Entities, Risk Management, Analysis and Control, Statistical Arbitrage, Structured Products Hedging and Trading Technology.
After Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul, Warsaw, Kiev, Beijing and Shanghai, Chicago finally has the opportunity to experience first-hand The Speed Traders Workshop 2012, seminar that will satisfy both insiders and professionals who are new to the world of high-frequency trading.
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Posted on September 13, 2012. Filed under: Exchanges, Flash Crash, Regulations, Securities and Exchange Commission, Workshop | Tags: Austria, Austrian National Bank, BATS Trading, CNBC, Columbia Business School, Edgar Perez, European Central Bank, Ewald Nowotny, Facebook IPO, Flash Crash, Harvard Business School, High-Frequency Trading Book, High-Frequency Trading Conference, High-Frequency Trading Seminar, high-speed trades, Knight Capital, proprietary trading, Quantitative Trading, regulatory conference, Reuters, Securities and Exchange Commission, The Speed Traders, The Speed Traders Workshop, The Speed Traders Workshop 2012, Vienna |
ECB’s Ewald Nowotny. Credit: Reuters/Heinz-Peter Bader
No other than European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny called today for a regulatory ban on high-frequency trading, saying the technique of using computer algorithms to generate multiple high-speed trades had no practical value.
Reading the note from Reuters made me wonder whether Mr. Nowotny had thought about the consequences of a potential ban, when the technique already has more than 50% participation of equities trading in the continent.
“With high-frequency trading there is nothing to be regulated, it is to be banned. There is no really demonstrable net advantage from this (form of trading),” he told a panel discussion at a regulatory conference.
Mr. Nowotny, who heads the Austrian National Bank, would certainly benefit from attending one of my workshops. While I only have New York, September 25, Chicago, October 9, Dubai, October 14, Jakarta, November 16, Shanghai, November 22, and London, December 12, in my calendar for the year, I am faced with the urgent need to take my slides to Austria and add some light where darkness seems to be reigning; at least, I might schedule a stop in the Kitzbühel Alps.
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Posted on August 3, 2011. Filed under: Event Announcements, Flash Crash, Technology | Tags: Aaron Lebovitz, Algorithm, Algorithmic Trading Compliance, Alternative Investments, Andrew Kumiega, automated trading, Bank of America, Barclays Capital, Bart Chilton, BATS Trading, Bon Pisani, Cash Flow, Chicago, Citadel, CNBC, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Borse, DirectEdge, Edgar Perez, Financial Institutions, Flash Crash, Fundraising, GETCO, Golden Networking, GoldenNetworking.com, GoldenNetworking.net, Goldman Sachs, Hedge Fund Alert, Hedge Funds, Hedge Funds Leaders Forum 2010, HedgeCo, HedgeConnections, HFTExpertsWorkshop.com, HFTHappyHour.com, HFTLeadersForum.com, High Frequency Trading 911, High-Frequency Trading, High-Frequency Trading Book, High-Frequency Trading Conference, High-Frequency Trading Experts Forum 2010, High-Frequency Trading Forum, High-Frequency Trading Happy Hour, High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2011, HighFrequencyTrading911.com, Hold, Hong Kong, HP, IBM, Individual Investors, Infinium Capital Management, Institutional Investors, James Austin, James Simons, Jim Simons, John Netto, LiquidNet, M3 Capital, Manoj Narang, Mary Schapiro, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Nasdaq, new york, NYSE, Oriel Morrison, Prime Brokerage, Quantitative Trading, Raising Funds, Renaissance Technologies, Sao Paulo, Securities and Exchange Commission, Sell, Short Sell, singapore, Starting a Fund, Steve Kroft, Sungard, The Speed Traders, Tradeworx, Trading, Ultra High-Frequency Trading, University of Chicago |
For John Netto, one of the leading high-frequency traders featured in Edgar Perez’s The Speed Traders: An Insider’s Look at the New High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World, high-frequency trading is going to get bigger, stronger and more prevalent. “There are potential regulatory changes that might impact the growth of high-frequency trading; that is always a possibility. They have talked about co-location and proximity legislation but who knows how it all shakes and if the desired results from this legislation are accomplished.”
Netto is the Founder and President of M3 Capital. Mr. Netto has worked with buy-side firms, sell-side firms, and technology providers on more efficiently combining structure, strategy, and personnel to increase trading profits. Mr. Netto has presented on behalf of Eurex, CME Group, The ICE, ISE, Interactive Brokers, Thomson Reuters, Profit-Loss Forex Conferences and Golden Networking as well as appearing regularly on Forex TV, Fox Business Channel, The Money Show Video Network, and many other media outlets.
Mr. Netto sees more traditional investment managers expanding into high-frequency trading; more managers are using technology as in means of investing. Similarly, he sees more institutional investors allocating part of their asset base to quantitative trading strategies. He adds: “I think at this moment the future is more than just technology, as it is already very robust; it would be more about the adoption of the technology which will determine how fast things go. Not every exchange has the same technology or robust infrastructure; I think what we will see is that more and more firms, more and more exchanges around the world get caught up and then it will be about the interchangeability of the technology. And not just from a hardware standpoint but also from a software standpoint. Issues such as ‘what exchange trade data can we give up to another exchange trade data’, and ‘how that data gets aggregated’. Considering the current environment, the future will be more about data aggregation and data processing, and getting that data in the hands of the right people than who will build the fastest server.”
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Posted on July 27, 2011. Filed under: Flash Crash, Strategies, Technology | Tags: Aaron Lebovitz, Adam Afshar, Algorithm, Algorithmic Trading Compliance, Alternative Investments, Andrew Kumiega, artificial intelligence, automated trading, Bank of America, Barclays Capital, Bart Chilton, BATS Trading, Bon Pisani, Cash Flow, Chicago, Citadel, CNBC, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Borse, DirectEdge, Edgar Perez, electronic financial markets, Financial Institutions, Flash Crash, Fundraising, GETCO, Golden Networking, GoldenNetworking.com, GoldenNetworking.net, Goldman Sachs, Hedge Fund Alert, Hedge Funds, Hedge Funds Leaders Forum 2010, HedgeCo, HedgeConnections, HFTExpertsWorkshop.com, HFTHappyHour.com, HFTLeadersForum.com, High Frequency Trading 911, High-Frequency Trading, High-Frequency Trading Book, High-Frequency Trading Conference, High-Frequency Trading Experts Forum 2010, High-Frequency Trading Forum, High-Frequency Trading Happy Hour, High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2011, HighFrequencyTrading911.com, Hold, Hong Kong, HP, Hyde Park Global Investments, IBM, Individual Investors, Infinium Capital Management, Institutional Investors, James Austin, James Simons, Jim Simons, John Netto, LiquidNet, M3 Capital, Manoj Narang, Mary Schapiro, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Nasdaq, new york, NYSE, Oriel Morrison, Prime Brokerage, Quantitative Trading, Raising Funds, Renaissance Technologies, Robotic platform, Sao Paulo, Securities and Exchange Commission, Sell, Short Sell, singapore, Starting a Fund, Steve Kroft, Sungard, The Speed Traders, Tradeworx, Trading, Ultra High-Frequency Trading, University of Chicago |
It took a while for Adam Afshar, one of the leading high-frequency traders featured in Edgar Perez’s The Speed Traders: An Insider’s Look at the New High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World, to believe that the markets were more or less efficient under normal circumstances and to realize that the analysts at most firms provided no value and sometimes a negative value. He says, “My first attempt at using the computer was to build a system to help traders have better information faster to enable them or their portfolio managers to make better decisions, a sort of hybrid system where the computers are helping the humans. But, in less than a year, I realized that discretionary human participation in selection, portfolio management , or trading was so deleterious that no amount of computer power or intellectual algorithms could mitigate it.”
Adam Afshar, Renowned Speed Trader- Hyde Park Global Investments
He adds: “It’s very important to stress this point because if the system allows human discretion at any level (idea generation, portfolio management, or trading) and your machine does not have the human discretionary elements modeled correctly in its learning algorithm (which we claim is not possible at this time), what you are left with is simply a quantitative trader that uses certain calculations to assist his or her trading. It becomes difficult or even impossible to assess whether the success or failure was due to the calculations, formula, or algorithms . Although we can argue on the pros and cons of humans as traders, we have to agree that this method is not and cannot be scientific. It is not scientific because it is not possible to backtest a model that allows any discretionary human intervention. For example, if you have computers that are generating trades, but the execution is done by humans, then we would argue that you cannot determine whether the success or failure of the system was due to its robust artificial intelligence or to a very good trader, and there is no way of testing and duplicating the results. Therefore, we would argue that any backtesting becomes essentially void.”
Hyde Park Global Investments, Afshar’s firm, is an investment and trading firm that has developed an artificial intelligence system built primarily on genetic algorithms and other evolutionary models to identify mispricings, arbitrage, and patterns for many electronic financial markets and the robotic platform to monetize the opportunities. The firm, which trades its own capital so far, potentially will accept investments from outside sources.
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