Google Maps, the powerful online mapping tool, owes its success to two key elements: GPS, which calculates a position on the Earth’s surface, and an exhaustive map that contains information such as your home address, your favorite restaurant, and the donut shop you pass on the way to work...
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20 October 2014, 11:38 #Neural networks
A potent theory has emerged explaining a mysterious statistical law that arises throughout physics and mathematics. Imagine an archipelago where each island hosts a single tortoise species and all the islands are connected — say by rafts of flotsam...
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20 October 2014, 11:26
The brain performs its canonical task — learning — by tweaking its myriad connections according to a secret set of rules. To unlock these secrets, scientists 30 years ago began developing computer models that try to replicate the learning process...
Trading Ideas
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20 October 2014, 11:22
Agency broker Bloomberg wants to bring the block trade from cash equities to the exchange traded fund market. How...
Events
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20 October 2014, 11:14
Recently I was interviewed by FOW magazine about the growing adoption of cloud computing in finance and trading. As we are both a provider and consumer of cloud services, we have an interesting, credible perspective...
Weekly Trends
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20 October 2014, 11:08 #AlgoTrading, quants
New York - It's a long laundry list of conflicting signals in US markets. Industry trading volumes are at five-year lows, the actual state of liquidity for ETFs is in question, and markets are volatile against a backdrop of slow wage growth...
Weekly Trends
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20 October 2014, 11:05
MiFID II / MiFIR series - high frequency and algorithmic trading obligations Introduction The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) is one of the cornerstones of EU financial services law setting out which investment services and activities should be licensed across the EU and the or...
Trading Ideas
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20 October 2014, 11:03
New York - ITG, the execution and research broker, has announced the launch of the POSIT Marketplace 3.0 algorithm, which combines technology and proprietary analytics to increase fill rates in non-displayed venues while filtering out potentially toxic liquidity...
Events
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20 October 2014, 10:58 #AlgoTrading
The Australian dollar is higher after trading in a tight range ahead of the release of some major economic news. At 1700 AEDT on Monday, the currency was trading at 87.75 US cents, up from 87.47 cents on Friday...
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20 October 2014, 10:46
MUMBAI: Gold was trading flat at Rs 27,548 per 10 gm in early afternoon trade on the Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX), reflecting the trend overseas, where the yellow metal was steady at $1,239...
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20 October 2014, 10:44 #gold