Evolution of Trading

Faster, Smarter, Better!

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Three sources of alpha

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Information

Structuring

Prediction

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Information

Short term

Structuring

Medium term

Prediction

Long term

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three ways of making money in financial markets

Information Speed Short term	These trades work most of the time. They make a little bit of money, when they do. They are consistently profitable but not very scalable.
Structuring Stat-Arb Lead/Lag Medium term	Works a fair bit of the time. Works particularly well when volatility and risk in the market is low. Reasonable scale, about 3% to 5% of annual alpha.
Prediction View-based Long term	These trades are typically very few, but when they work, they are very big winners. This is traditionally what

How to quickly derive information from data

Using FPGA to code up trading strategies
Low latency network interfaces
High performance application programming in C++
A low-latency communication network e.g. microwave

Now that we understood where it fits in, let's look at FPGA and why it is used in trading today ...

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