Morgan Slade, the CEO of CloudQuant spent some time with discussing the world of crowd research, technology, and data science with ChatWithTraders.com
Topics covered:
- How large funds and institutions put on $100-million positions; how they work orders into the market, structure the trade and handle market impact etc.
- Morgan explains why he feels as though the common approach to strategy development is counter intuitive, and shares an alternative 3-step formula.
- A simple description of how machine learning and data science is being used by traders, and an example of how ML has been used to improve existing strategies.
131: Strategy development—powered by machine learning w/ Morgan Slade
This interview is the follow on interview that Chat With Traders had Andy Kershner. Towards the end of that episode, Andy briefly mentioned a cloud-based algo development platform and fund, CloudQuant, which is a subsidiary of Kershner Trading Group.