This is a thread on the basics of quantitative trading & the strategies it employs. To understand today’s markets, we have to understand today’s traders. Most aren’t even human. They’re finely-tuned machines, built for the sole purpose of making money. How do they do it? 1/7
-Market Making- Market makers connect buyers & sellers who don’t come to the market at the same time. When exchanges tout “deep liquidity” in their markets, they’re relying on market makers to help validate this claim. Below is an example using Virtu: 6/7pic.twitter.com/zcicsCunLq
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Headlands Technologies, a quant trading firm, lays out their basic strategy in a blog post back in 2017: https://blog.headlandstech.com/2017/08/03/quantitative-trading-summary/ … 7/7
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