CloudQuant, the trading strategy incubator, has launched its crowd research platform by licensing and allocating risk capital to a trading algorithm. The algorithm licensor will receive a direct share of the strategy’s monthly net trading profits.
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New technologies are poised to sweep through investment banks, relieving many rank-and-file employees of roughly a third of their current workload, according to McKinsey & Co. The shift, already stoking angst on Wall Street, may take only a few years. CloudQuant sees opportunities.
“We’re tapping into the new skills coming out of educational institutions and students’ and graduates’ new ways of looking at things, but there are also opportunities for experienced people to connect the dots related to the ontological relationships between the data and the stock markets and other assets,” Slade said. “There are huge untapped resources out there, and we try to engage with the researchers as if they were employees and support them as such.”
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Your Proprietary Trading Algorithm is always your property on CloudQuant. Any trading strategy that you develop is yours. Not ours. You do not transfer ownership of the algo to CloudQuant. You do not transfer any copyrights to CloudQuant. This is fundamental to the operations and success of CloudQuant.
World Economic Forum published that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing discussion point in corporations and governments. This is driven by: 1. Everything is now becoming a connected device. 2. Computing is becoming free. 3. Data is becoming the new oil. 4. Machine learning is becoming the new combustion engine.
Crowdsourcing in fund management and trading is the move to utilize anyone with an internet connection to participate in the research with the goal of finding new and better ways of trading. During the discussion the differing approaches being taken with the business models, and the technology, and the challenges each are facing.
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“Chart pattern trading is a style that is more suitable for recreational trading rather than professional. This is one reason it was never considered seriously by the majority of hedge funds. In addition to requiring patience, slow chart pattern formations offer enough time for detection and competition is high at diminishing returns.”
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