D E Shaw: Exposing Mid-Frequency Sector Bias
Alphacution continues to expose breakthroughs from the development of its proprietary version of the 13F dataset. Our example comes from pioneer statistical arbitrage group D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc...
Virtu’s Q3 Net Trading Income Was Predictable Before Earnings Release
For wholesale market makers in US equities there appears to be a relationship between Rule 605 data and net trading income from retail order flow. For Virtu Financial, a public company and the closest example to a "pure play" in US equity wholesaling, this relationship could have been estimated before the Q3 2023 earnings release date. In this Feed post, Alphacution shares its analysis for this finding - and why it's not the most important component of this discovery...
The Evolving Value of Edge (Silver and Premium Subscribers)
What is the value of trading edge? Using "revenue per employee" as a comparative indicator, Alphacution dives deeper than ever before into Virtu Financial's market making business. The results cause a dramatic re-ranking of Virtu in a list of 10 market makers - plus a few other fascinating findings...
Reverse-Engineering Risk For Quant Trading Strategies
After years of development, Alphacution is on the verge of significant breakthroughs in research output given ongoing enhancements to its curated 13F dataset, including strategy sector bias. These are the first samples of those breakthroughs...
