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Chasing the Same Signals: How Black-Box Trading Influences Stock Markets from Wall Street to Shanghai (Wiley Trading) Review

Chasing the Same Signals: How Black-Box Trading Influences Stock Markets from Wall Street to Shanghai (Wiley Trading)
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Author's credibility suffers when you read that
Long Island is in Connecticut (p. 40), and is a city (on p. 48, it is listed with Milwaukee, Des Moines and Santa Fe)
University of Southern California is part of UCLA (p. 55), and employs "microstructure professors" - as does "the Wharton School of Finance" (p. 97)
"Volatility [is] the measure of the average change in stock prices" (p. 15)
"A linear combination of two stocks, such as buying Yahoo! and shorting eBay, will reduce the volatility by 50%" (p. 85)
"Conventional wisdom suggests markets are efficient, random walks" (p. 1)
"Investment strategies that are confirmed with understanding these intraday correlations are known as "statistical arbitrage" (or high-frequency) traders" (p. ?)
Etc., etc. (I won't quote a non-sequitur, but these do come up regularly, and impress me a lot more). How am I suppposed to trust the author's competence and judgement where I can't check his assertions? I cannot, so the book has limited (although definitely non-zero) value.

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Conventional wisdom suggests that markets are efficient, random walks and that stock prices rise and fall with the fundamentals of the company. How then have black-box traders prospered and how do they exploit market inefficiencies? Are their strategies on their last legs or will they adapt to the new landscape amidst the global financial crisis?
Chasing the Same Signals is a unique chronicle of the black-box industry's rise to prominence and their influence on the market place. This is not a story about what signals they chase, but rather a story on how they chase and compete for the same signals


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Quantum Trading: Using Principles of Modern Physics to Forecast the Financial Markets (Wiley Trading) Review

Quantum Trading: Using Principles of Modern Physics to Forecast the Financial Markets (Wiley Trading)
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Any trader that spends time researching the great traders of the past is bound to come across the name of W.D. Gann. Gann was a legendary trader in the early part of the last century. He became a legend through his many market predictions that would prove to be true, along with the incredible amount of wealth acquired through his methods. Gann was very secretive about his trading methods, and is reported to have been concerned about his image if people discovered his methods. The book Quantum Trading published by Wiley effectively and convincingly suggests turning away from linear two-dimensional thought, and embracing a probabilistic quantum base, which will reap greater rewards for a speculator in the markets.
Does reading about sun spots and the possible effects of solar wind on the pricing of the markets give you pause in questioning the source? If you read that high sun spot activity has a correlation to the stock market performing below average and you questioned the source of the so-called "science behind the assertion," you would likely not be alone. When I read something like that, I picture someone in the basement of their home with an Ouija board pulling stock prices out of the air, a method which is without merit. What if I added that it was not a self- described "guru of trading", but rather the Atlanta Federal Reserve that published the results? Having an open mind to new ideas in the way things work in the markets will aid the reader in absorbing the material. It shouldn't be required however, as the entire math and methods of calculation are included within the text.
Even with a track record that took from a childhood of poverty as a poor farm boy to one of the richest men in the United States, many today dismiss his methods as more superstition than a true science. With Quantum Trading, Oreste breaks the chains of limitations so many traders put upon themselves through methods and belief they have about the market and how it functions. In a step-by-step technique that is well considered and easy to comprehend, Oreste lays out the processes for calculating each method and indicator. By the end of the book, I understood the concepts and theory of the approach. I found the non-subjective methods used to be highly refreshing in a trading book. So many books on the market do not provide clear and concise rules of entry and exit, allowing for interpretation that is often useless to the reader.
In combination with support and resistance lines, the time elements of market prices are incorporated to fulfill the last element needed for market timing of entries. There is a chapter that describes the basics of options (and a little beyond the basics, which is a bonus, as every option trader needs to know the behavior of options and terminology associated with it), along with the advantages and drawbacks to utilizing options as a trading vehicle. What I found particularly helpful to a new trader is not so much the instructions what to do, but of what not to do. Most trading books fail to dedicate insight to all the landmines traders face and how to avoid many of them. Traders by nature are always exploring a new way to catch a mouse, it's part of the job. Simply learning some of the pitfalls without losing any money make the book worth reading.
Readers will learn concepts like Gann angles, price and time in equilibrium, price-space-harmonics with quantum properties, theories, and concepts, including Einstein's theory of relativity, in ways that may be useful to traders. The book is well-written (although at times repetitive in terminology), and is obviously produced by an author with vast experience in the trenches of the trading world. The trading experience of Oreste shines through in a mentoring style that leaves the reader with a new and different set of trading tools than they likely had before reading.
I am glad I read Quantum Trading, and recommend it to any trader looking for a mechanical, systematic approach to read it as well.

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A cutting-edge guide to quantum trading
Original and thought-provoking, Quantum Trading presents a compelling new way to look at technical analysis and will help you use the proven principles of modern physics to forecast financial markets.
In it, author Fabio Oreste shows how both the theory of relativity and quantum physics is required to makes sense of price behavior and forecast intermediate and long-term tops and bottoms. He relates his work to that of legendary trader W.D. Gann and reveals how Gann's somewhat esoteric theories are consistent with his applications of Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum theory to price behavior.
Applies concepts from modern science to financial market forecasting
Includes a CD that?shows how to generate support/resistance areas and identify potential market turning points
Addresses how non-linear approaches to trading can be used to both understand and forecast market prices

While no trading approach is perfect, the techniques found within these pages have enabled the author to achieve a very attractive?annual return since 2002. See what his insights can do for you.

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The High Frequency Game Changer: How Automated Trading Strategies Have Revolutionized the Markets (Wiley Trading) Review

The High Frequency Game Changer: How Automated Trading Strategies Have Revolutionized the Markets (Wiley Trading)
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Paul Zubulake and Sang Lee have written an excellent introduction to the High Frequency world. They take the reader through the birth and growth of high frquency trading and present the key elements of HFT and their impact on the markets.The authors leverage informational surveys with key participants to present factually based insights that are very informative. HFT will be a key component of market sturcture for a very long time and this book allows the reader to form a more complete understanding of its processes and its impact.
D. Keith Ross, Jr. CEO, PDQ ATS

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The financial industry's leading independent research firm's forward-looking assessment into high frequency trading
Once regarded as a United States-focused trend, today, high frequency trading is gaining momentum around the world. Yet, while high frequency trading continues to be one of the hottest trends in the markets, due to the highly proprietary nature of the computer transactions, financial firms and institutions have made very little available in terms of information or "how-to" techniques. That's all changed with The High Frequency Game Changer: How Automated Trading Strategies Have Revolutionized the Markets. In the book, Zubulake and Lee present an overview of how high frequency trading is changing the face of the market. The book
Explains how we got here and what it means to traders and investors
Details how to build a high frequency trading firm, including the relevant tools, strategies, and trading talent
Defines key components common to HFT such as algorithms, low latency trading infrastructure, collocation etc.


The High Frequency Game Changer takes a highly controversial and extremely complicated subject and makes it accessible to anyone with an interest or stake in financial markets.

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The Speed Traders: An Insider's Look at the New High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World Review

The Speed Traders: An Insider's Look at the New High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World
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Guest post from Nora McCallum. I enjoyed reading this book. Most of the research to date demonstrates that HFT's (and hedge fund managers for that matter) can have a period of very high success but ultimately fail. The extinction ratio for this investors class is very high. I think that the book gives a clear and concise overview of the (short) history and current role that High Frequency Trading plays in the capital markets. Given that speed is of the essence with this tool, I am not sure how much more time can be shaved off the technology; it will be very interesting to see how these trading techniques continue to develop and influence the global capital markets.

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