Low-Latency Automation of Complex Trading Strategies

Tabb has an interesting article on Stat Arb trading: Scalping, Position strategies

Scalping strategies try to profit from price inefficiencies just like arbitrage strategies do. A major difference is that in scalping strategies the instruments are not fungible. This means there is no arbitrage relation forcing the involved instruments to trade at a certain price level against each other.

Position strategies are based on statistical analysis of market prices in listed instruments

Finally, the ETF application I blogged about previous provide some nice patterns to satisfy:

The ability to run strategies on many servers makes it possible to have a large number of concurrent trading strategies active.

Interesting times.

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~ by mdavey on March 13, 2011.

One Response to “Low-Latency Automation of Complex Trading Strategies”

  1. [...] to Matt at lab49, I’ve found my way to Tabb.  I do recommend the article he referred to on Stat [...]

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