Roughly six years ago, Steven Schonfeld and his Schonfeld Strategic Advisors engineered a what turned out to be a profound shift in trading strategy. Alphacution tip toes through the available data to illustrate clear markers for that shift...
Alphacution is constantly surveilling the landscape for clues of strategy capacity constraints and opportunities for strategy capacity expansion - and the impacts that those constraints and opportunities are likely to have throughout the capital markets ecosystem. Here's one finding that we found fascinating...
Inspired by reading Igor Tulchinsky's books - albeit a couple years late - Alphacution digs into some modeling to uncover a real world application of The UnRules...
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.."Plutarch The comment has been made here before, likely more than once: As we go along the path of our research, our ability to see - to interpret the data, and the shapes that are formed from that data - tends to improve. This is not only true of newer shapes forged from amalgamations of newer data - and additional sources - but of older shapes, as well. Recently, I stumbled over a series of charts first published in July 2019 in the Feed post, "Ranking Strategy Speed for Top Quants, Market Makers," which remains among our more fascinating discoveries. Therein, we compared average stock position sizing for a list of notable trading and hedge fund firms, from Renaissance Technologies (RenTech), D. E. Shaw, and Two Sigma to Jane Street, Hudson River Trading (HRT), and Tower Research Capital (TRC). Citadel Securities and Susquehanna Securities were in the mix, as well. The rankings were roughly delineated between [...]
