Look at a painting, and you can have a view of whether you like it or not. Something might catch your eye, perhaps it’s the style of painting. Maybe it’s the colours. Could it be the subject topic? However, without any context about the artist and the period in which it was painted, it can…
Category: General
Foreign Exchange, General
Regime change isn’t just for politics
by Saeed Amen •
In the past, in the UK, if you wanted a burger, well, you went to McDonalds. Perhaps there was the odd Burger King or Wimpy too. Burger-wise they were simpler times. Today, there’s been a total change in the regime, when it comes to burgers. Do you want a “fast food” burger, like McDonald’s, a…
General
What time frequency to trade?
by Saeed Amen •
Do you like having snacks regularly and forego regular meals? Or do you prefer to have 3 meals a day? It’s simply that the snacks you have, are going to be smaller portions compared to a full meal (at least I suppose that is the idea). I’m not a doctor, so I have no idea which is…
General
Choose your parameters unwisely in trading…
by Saeed Amen •
Ok, the title is slightly tongue in cheek, but I shall explain it later in the article. In the meantime, let’s talk about something I like a lot… burgers! One thing that’s fairly apparent is that the quality can vary considerably between different burger joints. Some use the highest quality beef, which you might find in a…
General
The digital nomad?
by Saeed Amen •
The idea of being a digital nomad is somewhat seductive. Work on a laptop wherever you want, in a coffee shop, in a park, or perhaps in a different country. Obviously, it can’t be anywhere at all, free WiFi is the bedrock of any sort of digital nomadic existence. That of course, and the bane…
Data, Foreign Exchange, General
At the chart of the matter & finding market patterns
by Saeed Amen •
I recently retweeted a link to a rather interesting tutorial on machine learning given by Google. One of my Twitter followers (@grodaeu) replied ‘totally missed opportunity to go “Learn machine learning by taking the same machine learning course 10000 times’. Ok, so I chuckled a bit after reading that reply. However, it did make me…
General
Thoughts on the market sell-off
by Saeed Amen •
When I’m hungry, I tend to think of burgers. I should add, that this doesn’t imply that I eat a burger every time I’m hungry (even I recognise that would be a suboptimal solution health-wise!). Similarly, in markets, when there’s a move, particular a large one, market participants want to find a reason. Sometimes there…
Foreign Exchange, General, Macro
Fooled by randomness?
by Saeed Amen •
Nassim Talib’s book entitled Fooled by Randomness, is a great read. The central premise is the idea that people mistake randomness for something meaningful. We always want to find an explanation or a cause for something, even if there isn’t one. Markets are inherently noisy. It isn’t always possible to understand “why” a market moved…
General
A startup as an options trade
by Saeed Amen •
A trader spends inordinate amounts of the day looking at a screen, continually monitoring how assets react to events, seeking a signal amid a considerable amount of noise. At the same time, a successful trader needs to have the ability to correctly scale their risk. In a sense it doesn’t matter how often a trader…
Data, Foreign Exchange, General, Macro, Python
Hundreds of quant papers/libraries from #QuantLinkADay
by Saeed Amen •
I tweet a lot, perhaps too much. The question is always what shall I tweet about? Sometimes it’s about burgers, other times it’ll be some puns or there might even be some vastly impressive observation in a tweet I make (well, perhaps not, but we can always hope!). Over the past 2 years, to give me…