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Finding Novel Ways to Trade on Sentiment Data

“Everyone is looking into alternative data sets, sometimes without really understanding their value,” says Dr. Arun Verma, Ph.D.,

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Discretionary Managers Seek Alpha in Alternative Data

Alternative data providers see huge potential in providing their data to discretionary asset managers who are losing assets to quantitative and systematic funds.

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Morgan Stanley’s 16,000 Human Brokers Get Algorithmic Makeover

Call them cyborgs. Morgan Stanley is about to augment its 16,000 financial advisers with machine-learning algorithms that suggest trades, take over routine tasks and send reminders when your birthday is near.

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June 22nd 2017 Battle of Quants

CloudQuant’s CEO Morgan Slade will be speaking on Crowdfunding Algo Developers and Data Scientists. The primary question on his panel will be “How does the mechanism work and which business model is showing early signs of success?”

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Hedge funds and VCs are throwing money at ex-Bridgewater data scientists’ startup

If you aren’t being recruited because you didn’t work at Bridgewater, maybe it is time to create your own hedge fund operation by creating an algo on CloudQuant.

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Funds Face ‘Alt’ Data Challenge

Although alternative data sets are helping funds with systematic investment strategies, those funds that employ discretionary strategies are finding it harder to separate the new trading signals from the noise.

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Kershner Trading Announces the Formation of CloudQuant

Kershner Trading Group, LLC announces the formation of CloudQuant®, a wholly owned subsidiary that is the Trading Strategy Incubator.