QuantInsti’s Blog on Algo Trading and Quantitative Finance

Sep 09, 2020

1 min read

The Rewards and Perils of Mean Reversion Trading - "Lessons from our fund" by Dr Ernest Chan [WEBINAR]

In this session, Dr Chan discussed how their fund QTS Capital Management benefitted and suffered from trading a mean reversion strategy, and what they did to mitigate such tail risks....

Sep 09, 2020

9 min read

Kurtosis & its Application in Risk Evaluation

This blog discusses the concept of kurtosis and its application in understanding the risk profiles of financial securities besides common misconceptions regarding its calculation and interpretation....

Sep 08, 2020

7 min read

NLTK: Installation, Environment, Application in NLP

NLTK is a popular python package for working on Natural Language Data. Learn some of its most used tools to preprocess political news twitter dataset and create a Sentiment Analysis model....

Sep 03, 2020

15 min read

A Beginner’s Guide: How to Day Trade?

Although day trading practice requires experience, a thorough knowledge of the same can help you take the first step. This article aims at covering the essentials of day trading for the beginners....

Aug 28, 2020

10 min read

Trading Index (TRIN): Formula, Calculation & Strategy in Python

Explore trading with the help of TRIN and its applications. This article will give you thorough information about this oscillator....

Aug 25, 2020

5 min read

Algorithmic Trader Vs Quant Developer

A must-read article that explains the difference between an algorithmic trader and a quant developer which is quite interesting and significant to learn about....

Aug 24, 2020

1 min read

EPATians' Share | Building an Algo Infrastructure by BNS Kumar

A Quant Trader with 10 years of trading experience, BNS Kumar, an EPAT alumnus, takes you through the entire process of building an Algo Infrastructure....

Aug 20, 2020

4 min read

Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering to Algorithmic Trading: Kishore's Journey

Knitting Passion and Skills together, Kishore’s journey from Engineering, to Masters in Finance and now to Algorithmic Trading is an inspiring read....

Aug 19, 2020

7 min read

Proprietary Trading Explained: Definitions, Strategies and Career Opportunities!

Proprietary trading is one of the trading practices which one can opt for. In this article, we will discuss proprietary trading in detail to help you gain thorough knowledge....