Quantitative versus Discretionary Trading The American economy affects us as well as the rest of the world‚ and the stock market influences the economy in a big way. Most Americans are quite familiar with terms like stocks and the stock market‚ especially after the economic crisis of 08‚ but many do not know exactly what they mean and how extreme their effects can be on the general economy. Stock is nothing more than pieces or shares of a company which are traded in a specific market. When I purchase
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“The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seemed filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.” (One Art‚ 1-4‚ Bishop) Elizabeth Bishop‚ a famous poet during the Modernist Era‚ wrote many popular poems including‚ “Sandpiper.” Bishop’s tragic childhood and role models‚ her birthplace and the era of selective writing in which she was born into affected the style and messages in her writing. Elizabeth Bishop endured a devastating childhood in the Modernist Era‚ in which
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special cases of traffic. Configuration tables will vary in the number of lines depending on how big the capability of the router is. (McGraw)Data transmitted over the Internet‚ travels over the system of the packet-switching network. This system breaks down data and information files into packages of about 1500 bytes. The data package carries the sender ’s IP address‚ the receivers IP address‚ information on how many packets the data is broken down to‚ and the information on rebuilding the package. Each
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High frequency trading HFT What is HFT and how does it work? High frequency trading (HFT) is buying and selling stocks at an incredible speed‚ we are talking about milliseconds. This is too fast to manual put in the orders‚ hereby taken over by powerful computers. They run by sophisticated algorithms that are independently scanning the market for opportunities. Those programs have very low turnover rates per share‚ only a few cents or even less. However since they trade thousands of stocks each
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Trading Report Strategy Chosen Our strategy is consisted of two parts: when the market is neutral without obvious trends‚ we play like the role of market maker; on the contrary‚ we put our bet on the trend. At first‚ we calculate the weighted average quantity from the order book‚ says 1st to 4th layer‚ for both sides. If bid quantity is larger than 2.5 times of ask‚ we believe that bulls prevail and this trend will be continued in a phase. Thus we place a market order to buy‚ expecting to earn
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Utilitarianism does not work.” How far do you agree? I strongly agree with the fore mentioned statement. There are strengths and weaknesses to Bentham’s version of utilitarianism‚ however I believe that the weaknesses outweigh the strengths and that eventually it can be concluded that his theory does not work. Bentham follows the principle of utility; this is the ‘greatest good for the greatest number’. In many situations this can be applied and used effectively‚ however Bentham does not specify
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ALGORITHMIC TRADING Algorithmic trading (also known as Black-box trading) refers to the use of automation for trading in financial markets. Simply put‚ it is computer-guided trading‚ where a program with direct market access can monitor the market and order trades when certain conditions are met. Earlier‚ the trading strategies were executed by humans but now it is majorly done by algorithms thus removing human emotion element in trading. Now‚ you may be thinking who uses this concept? Well‚
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Consider the importance of the characters names in Kindertransport I think that in Kindertransport the writer‚ Diane Samuels uses the names of the characters as a huge way of showing their personalities and their life’s worth. The very first character that we are introduced to is Eva‚ now this is the younger and former self of the later introduced Evelyn. The name ‘Eva’ is a Hebrew name which is biblical and means ‘life’ but also ‘God’s grace’. This is very fitting as when Eva is introduced to
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speeds‚ often executing at least a few trades in under a second. HFT strategies can be broadly categorized into 4 groups: Liquidity Providence: Rebate Trading‚ Automated Market Trading. Pricing Inefficiency Arbitrage: Scalping‚ Latency Arbitrage‚ Statistical Arbitrage Predatory Trading: Latency Arbitrage Flash Orders‚ Quote Stuffing Directional Trading: News trading‚ Liquidity Detection‚ Momentum Trading: One prominent strategy include searching for hidden large orders by "pinging" small orders
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in a house full of hard working American citizens where each person helped the world positively in a different way has helped implant positive ethics and values into my overall character. As a child all I could remember was how hard my family worked. My father would work overtime at General Motors‚ while my mother would put her love for creativity into people’s homes by wallpapering and painting. Growing up in this type of atmosphere allowed me several advantages. I could have basically anything
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