It can often be easy (and wrong) as a market practitioner in FX to think of moves from purely a speculator’s point of view. However, as probably seems blatantly obvious, the behaviour of speculators in the FX market is not conducted in some vacuum. It is an amalgamation of many other transactions which are not…
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Takeaways from Global Derivatives
by Saeed Amen •
Think of Barcelona and there are several images which might come to mind. Perhaps it is Messi cleaning up against Barca’s opposition (yes, that was intended to be a pun!). Maybe it is Antonio Gaudi, his buildings illuminating the city from the (still unfinished) Sagrada Familia to the Casa Batllo. Indeed, it could be sound…
Events
Lessons from Buffett in Omaha
by Saeed Amen •
In the centre of Omaha is the Old Market district, a reminder of its nineteenth century beginnings, a time when it rose to prominence as a centre of the railroads and the meat trade. To this day, sit in a swanky steakhouse in New York or London, and there’s a good chance your steak began its journey from the…
Events
QuantCon takeaways
by Saeed Amen •
Over the past few days I’ve been in New York, meeting with clients. I also attended and presented at QuantCon NYC 2017, Quantopian’s annual conference. It was my first time at QuantCon, and I had been expecting a relatively small affair. With several hundred attendees and multiple streams, it was one of the biggest quant conferences…
Events, General, Macro, Python
Quant solutions for macro traders
by Saeed Amen •
Over the past two weeks I’ve been travelling in Asia to Singapore and Japan, my mind simultaneously awash with discovering new places and a sampling of local burgers (yes, I make it a duty to try burgers whichever part of the world I’m in…). The first week was for work, and the second week was…
Events
FT Festival of Finance
by Saeed Amen •
(Above) Peter Praet, Chief Economist, ECB Each July, Camp Alphaville descends on London, an eclectic finance conference discussing topics ranging from macroeconomics to fintech to the music industry. It also provides a focal point for the Twitter finance community to meet in real life, where conversations are not confined to 140 characters at a time.…