Some of the most successful hedge fund managers today are run by quants. A good example will be Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies. He spent 17 years in the academia before setting up 'RenTec' as Renaissance Technologies is commonly known [1]. 'RenTec' manages assets in excess of US$20 billion and its flagship Medallion Fund was up 58% for the first nine months of 2008 [2]. Other successful quant funds of note include D.E Shaw, Goldman Alpha Fund. While a significant number of hedge funds took a major beating in 2008, I believe that the growth and subsequent dominance of 'quant' funds in the last 20 years provide many learning points for other traders.
This page is a running list of articles I wrote on quantitative stuff. It is designed for beginners who want to learn bit by bit and slowly develop their strategy along the way. My objective is to share information and knowledge for those who are willing to spend time learning and reading.
A quick note on what you need to get started.
A quick note on where such knowledge is being applied.
Some introductory concepts towards multivariate distributions
Needed to compute Bessel functions of fractional orders which are in turned used in evaluating the probability distribution functions of the Generalized Hyperbolic distribution
Some analysis of what exactly are technical indicators
A basic look at high-band pass filters and low-band pass filters
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