Posts by Paul Rowady

About Paul Rowady

Paul Rowady is the Director of Research for Alphacution, a research and strategic advisory platform uniquely focused on modeling and benchmarking the impacts of technology on global financial markets and the businesses of trading and asset management. He is a 35-year veteran of the proprietary, quantitative and derivatives trading arenas.

Contact: feedback@alphacution.com

Estimating The Shorts Universe

Alphacution expands on the introduction of its Strategy Factor Library with a deeper dive into its method for estimating the potential universe of short stock and short ETF securities as a component of the core trading strategy for a large group of option market makers...
By Paul Rowady | July 1, 2024 | Silver / Premium
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Introducing Alphacution’s Strategy Factor Library

Alphacution goes wider and deeper than ever before - as part of the research for our unexpectedly exhaustive case study on US equity option markets and option market makers - to compare trading entities based on at least 84 strategy factors from the simplest factors - like securities universe or number of positions by product class - to some of the most sophisticated comparisons that Alphacution has ever attempted. In this Feed post, we publish this list - the first...
By Paul Rowady | June 28, 2024 | Silver / Premium
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Introducing Alphacution’s Strategy Factor Library

Alphacution goes wider and deeper than ever before - as part of the research for our unexpectedly exhaustive case study on US equity option markets and option market makers - to compare trading entities based on at least 84 strategy factors from the simplest factors - like securities universe or number of positions by product class - to some of the most sophisticated comparisons that Alphacution has ever attempted. In this Feed post, we publish this list - the first...
By Paul Rowady | June 28, 2024 | For Subscribers
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Global Asset Manager Rankings by US Equities, Part I

As of December 2023, there were ~7,200 asset managers who filed 13F reports. In collaboration with its development affiliates, Alphacution publishes its first exhibit to illustrate a ranking of this global asset manager universe by the value of their US equity holdings. To commemorate this development - and refresh those who may be new to Alphacution - we include a brief summary of key research milestones that led to this 'leveling up'...
By Paul Rowady | May 30, 2024 | Silver / Premium
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