Alphacution’s Top Stories for 2020
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that...
Cutler Group’s Book: Hiding in Plain Sight
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.” T. S. Eliot As...
Alphacution Joins Lex Sokolin’s “FinTech Blueprint” Podcast
From Lex Sokolin: “Check out the fantastic podcast conversation from last week here: Understanding Robinhood, Derivatives, and Market Makers with Paul...
According to D. E. Shaw, RenTech and Other Legends: Hindsight is Not 2020
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.“ Henry Ford I couldn’t find the exact reference, but sometime...
Billions of Orders, Trillions of Shares: Comparing NYSE Arca and IEX
“The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.“ Joseph...
Alphacution Press: Financial Times on Robinhood’s Brokerage Practices
Alphacution quoted in Financial Times story by Madison Darbyshire in London and Eric Platt and David Carnevali in New York...
Hudson River Trading vs. Tower Research Capital: Lessons in Strategy Geometry – Part I
“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the...
Walleye Trading’s Book: Hiding in Plain Sight
“There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one...
Susquehanna Securities and the Hidden Stat Arb Strategy
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled..“ Plutarch The comment has been...
HAP Trading’s Book: Hiding in Plain Sight
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one...