Quantitative trading: how to build your own algorithmic trading business
While institutional traders continue to implement quantitative (or algorithmic) trading, many independent traders have wondered if they can still challenge powerful industry professionals at their own game? The answer is "yes," and in Quantitative Trading, Dr. Ernest Chan, a respected inde...
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| Zusammenfassung: | While institutional traders continue to implement quantitative (or algorithmic) trading, many independent traders have wondered if they can still challenge powerful industry professionals at their own game? The answer is "yes," and in Quantitative Trading, Dr. Ernest Chan, a respected independent trader and consultant, will show you how. Whether you're an independent "retail" trader looking to start your own quantitative trading business or an individual who aspires to work as a quantitative trader at a major financial institution, this practical guide contains the information you need to succeed. |
| Beschreibung: | XVII, 181 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780470284889 |
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Preface
xl
Acknowledgments
xvii
CHAPTER
1
The What«, Who«, and Whys of Quantitative
Trading
1
Who Can Become a Quantitative Trader?
2
The Business Case for Quantitative Trading
4
Scalability
5
Demand on Time
5
The Nonnecessity of Marketing
7
The Way Forward
8
CHAPTER
2
Fishing for Ideas
9
How to Identify a Strategy That Suits You
12
Your Working Hours
12
Your Programming Skills
1 3
Your Trading Capital
1 3
Your Goal
1 6
A Taste for Plausible Strategies and Their Pitfalls
17
How Does It Compare with a Benchmark and How Consistent
Are Its Returns?
1 8
How Deep and Long Is the Drawdown?
21
How Will Transaction Costs Affect the Strategy?
22
Does the Data Suffer from Survivorship Bias?
24
How Did the Performance of the Strategy Change over the Years?
24
vii
Vill
CONTENTS
Does the Strategy Suffer from Data-Snooping Bias?
25
Does the Strategy Fly under the Radar of Institutional
Money Managers?
27
Summary
28
CHAPTER
3
Backtesting
31
Common
Backtesting
Platforms
32
Excel
32
MATLAB
32
TradeStation
35
High-End
Backtesting
Platforms
35
Finding and Using Historical Databases
36
Are the Data Split and Dividend Adjusted?
З6
Are the Data Survivorship Bias Free?
40
Does Your Strategy Use High and Low Data?
42
Performance Measurement
43
Common
Backtesting
Pitfalls to Avoid
50
Look-Ahead Bias
51
Data-Snooping Bias
52
Transaction Costs
60
Strategy Refinement
65
Summary
66
CHAPTER
4
Setting Up Your Business
69
Business Structure: Retail or Proprietary?
69
Choosing a Brokerage or Proprietary Trading Firm
71
Physical Infrastructure
75
Summary
77
CHAPTER
5
Execution Systems
79
What an Automated Trading System Can Do for You
79
Building a Semiautomated Trading System
81
Building a Fully Automated Trading System
84
Minimizing Transaction Costs
87
Contents ix
Testing
Your System by Paper Trading
89
Why Does Actual Performance Diverge from Expectations?
90
Summary
92
CHAPTER
6
Money and Risk Management
95
Optimal Capital Allocation and Leverage
95
Risk Management
103
Psychological Preparedness
108
Summary 111
Appendix: A Simple Derivation of the Kelly Formula when
Return Distribution Is Gaussian
112
CHAPTER
7
Special Topics in Quantitative Trading us
Mean-Reverting versus Momentum Strategies
116
Regime Switching
119
Stationarity and
Cointegration
126
Factor Models
133
What Is Your Exit Strategy?
140
Seasonal Trading Strategies
143
High-Frequency Trading Strategies
151
Is It Better to Have a High-Leverage versus
a High-Beta Portfolio?
1 53
Summary
154
CHAPTER
S
Conclusion: Can Independent Traders
Succeed?
157
Next Steps
161
Appendix A Quick Survey of
MATLAB
163
Bibliography
169
About the Author
173
Index
175
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