An introduction to algorithmic trading : basic to advanced strategies / Edward A. Leshik, Jane Cralle.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Wiley trading seriesPublication details: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 264 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9786613239587
  • 6613239585
  • 9781119206033
  • 1119206030
  • 9780470979358
  • 0470979356
  • 9781119975090
  • 1119975093
  • 9781119975106
  • 1119975107
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 332.6322 22
LOC classification:
  • HG4661 .L47 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction to trading algorithms. History ; All about trading algorithms you ever wanted to know ... ; Algos defined and explained ; Who uses and provides algos ; Why have they become mainstream so quickly? ; Currently popular algos ; A perspective view from a tier 1 company ; How to use algos for individual traders ; How to optimize individual trader algos ; The future : where do we go from here? -- The Leshik-Cralle trading methods. Our nomenclature ; Math toolkit ; Statistics toolbox ; Data : symbol, date, timestamp, volume, price ; Excel mini seminar ; Excel charts : how to read them and how to build them ; Our metrics : algometrics ; Stock personality clusters ; Selecting a cohort of trading stocks ; Stock profiling ; Stylistic properties of equity markets ; Volatility ; Returns : theory ; Benchmarks and performance measures ; Our trading algorithms described : the Alpha algo strategies ; Parameters and how to set them ; Technical analysis (TA) ; Heuristics, AI, artificial neural networks and other avenues to be explored ; How we design a trading alpha algo ; From the efficient market hypothesis to prospect theory ; The road to chaos (or nonlinear science) ; Complexity economics ; Brokerages ; Order management platforms and order execution systems ; Data feed vendors, real-time, historical -- Connectivity -- Hardware specification examples ; Brief philosophical digression -- Information sources.
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CD-ROM includes examples and algorithms in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-247) and index.

Print version record.

Introduction to trading algorithms. History ; All about trading algorithms you ever wanted to know ... ; Algos defined and explained ; Who uses and provides algos ; Why have they become mainstream so quickly? ; Currently popular algos ; A perspective view from a tier 1 company ; How to use algos for individual traders ; How to optimize individual trader algos ; The future : where do we go from here? -- The Leshik-Cralle trading methods. Our nomenclature ; Math toolkit ; Statistics toolbox ; Data : symbol, date, timestamp, volume, price ; Excel mini seminar ; Excel charts : how to read them and how to build them ; Our metrics : algometrics ; Stock personality clusters ; Selecting a cohort of trading stocks ; Stock profiling ; Stylistic properties of equity markets ; Volatility ; Returns : theory ; Benchmarks and performance measures ; Our trading algorithms described : the Alpha algo strategies ; Parameters and how to set them ; Technical analysis (TA) ; Heuristics, AI, artificial neural networks and other avenues to be explored ; How we design a trading alpha algo ; From the efficient market hypothesis to prospect theory ; The road to chaos (or nonlinear science) ; Complexity economics ; Brokerages ; Order management platforms and order execution systems ; Data feed vendors, real-time, historical -- Connectivity -- Hardware specification examples ; Brief philosophical digression -- Information sources.

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