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Intraday Volatility in the COVID Era: Why it Matters
Intraday volatility is a substantially more important metric in this new regime. As the global health and economic situation evolves, more sudden shifts in overall volatility are likely, and historic volatility metrics will be slow to respond to such events.
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Is Remote Work Leading to a Paradigm Shift on the Trading Desk?
Given the market’s resiliency and traders working from home during the COVID-19-fueled volatility, some market observers have questioned the centralized trading desk mentality that has been pervasive on Wall Street.
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In Volatile Markets, Trading Technology Matters
At times like these, two major factors come into play: first, your trading technology’s ability to process and manage the data coming into the platform, and secondly, how well-established automation is within the firm.
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Best practices in algo wheel design and implementation
Algo wheels are the application to trading of the idea of randomised controlled trials, which originally comes from the natural sciences. When you have some new innovation in the healthcare space, for example, you have to make sure
that a new treatment actually works and improves outcomes for patients.