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Combining Sentiments in Trading and Business: How Hugo Explored Opportunities

Hugo’s Journey with CSAF - His enthusiasm for learning and the zeal to achieve more by combining sentiments and trading is highly inspiring....
7 min read

Gini Index: Decision Tree, Formula, Calculator, Gini Coefficient in Machine Learning

Gini Index is a powerful tool for decision tree technique in machine learning models. This detailed guide helps you learn everything from Gini index formula, how to calculate Gini index, Gini index decision tree, Gini index example and more!...
9 min read

VWAP Tutorial: Calculation, Uses, and Limitations

VWAP i.e. the Volume Weighted Average Price, is a useful technical indicator that works on the basis of an entire day’s price action. Find out more about VWAP with this interesting tutorial....
13 min read

Five Indicators To Build Trend-Following Strategies

Trend following strategies - which are the most popular ones, which technical indicator would be good for your trading, how to create your own trend following strategy, and a lot more covered in this detailed guide!...
11 min read

How much salary does a Quant earn?

Quantitative traders are quite successful but, what do the quants do to become one and how much salary do they earn? With this blog, you will learn all this and much more!...
9 min read

Blindness couldn’t stop Pranav’s pursuit of Algo Trading

This is the journey of Pranav Lal, breaking all sorts of stereotypes of being 100% visually impaired, with his “Never give-up” attitude. He is a Photographer, Blogger, TEDx speaker, Consultant, and successful Algorithmic Trader....
12 min read

17+ years of Engineering in Japan to Algorithmic Trading | Praveen Singh from India

Praveen Singh is an electronic trading professional with over 17 years of experience in information technology and investment banking. He has held vice president positions in global firms including Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank. Let's follow his venture into algorithmic trading....
7 min read

Guitarist, Entrepreneur, and now an Algo Trader | Akshat's story

From a lead guitarist in a band to stringing his new Fintech Startups, learn how Akshat has brought a new rhythm to his career with his performance in Algo Trading....
9 min read

Autocorrelation and Autocovariance: Calculation, Examples, and More

Autocorrelation and Autocovariance are essential in the time series analysis topic! This tutorial will guide you on their definitions, their computations and plotting using Python and R. Read now!...
10 min read

Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER): Formula, Calculation, and More

Real effective exchange rate (REER) is vital when it comes to trading. What is REER? What is the REER formula and how it can be used for real effective exchange rate calculation? This blog covers this, the FAQs, types and more....
9 min read