We continue “Who is Who” section in our blog, featuring outstanding individuals, who have worked alongside us and behind the scene to offer you a state-of-the-art product but also to develop an investor-ready business case.
Today, we are pleased to introduce you our team’s advisor, Antonio Grasso. Antonio is a Top 10 Digital Transformation Thought-Leader and Influencer by Kcore Analytics and #12 Globally by Onalytica.
Antonio started out as a developer and software architect in the IT industry, has led large projects for the Italian government, businesses in the innovation sector, eGov, eBilling process automation, interoperability, and digital signing. He is expert and influencer on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, digital transformation, the internet of things, and Blockchain.
We asked Antonio a few questions to get his perspective on AITrading ecosystem and industry of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
What is at the heart of your current work and interests?
I split my time between local projects and international activities. My Italian activities are mainly focused on startup mentorship, project management, and advisory.
Actually, I lead various projects in Italy relying on Patents and/or the Emerging Technologies, some of them:
- MyInsurance — A cloud SaaS software for the insurance agency management
- Visual Black Box — An insurtech device for visual proof of claim and driver attitude using Machine Learning. This is a patented technology.
- Risk Index Computation — An adaptive Digital Platform based on a Patented algorithm to calculate the Earthquake Risk for civilian buildings.
- Drone Scan — A Research & Development project to implement a new Patented technology to scan terrain using Microwaves for Military and Civilian use.
- Various projects fostering Emerging Technologies adoption in some enterprises
In my International assignments, I work as Influencer, speaker, and advisor. I’m proud to collaborate with large companies like Siemens, Sas, Intel, Enel Group and I’m honored to contribute to the European Commission — Digital Single Market to create an influencer framework to better spread the digital verb through Europe. I participate also in the Advisory Board of Xplorico, a Norwegian company focused on startup or scaleup process.
My speaker topics are the Digital Transformation and all the Emerging Technologies and all the related arguments.
Honestly, I’m a lucky person but I do not forget that our world needs to be fixed and each of us needs to have a role; so I’ve found a Facebook page and an Instagram page that aims to spread the Digital Transformation in the Developing Countries in Africa and Asia. Many young people need assistance to build their future, so, each day I post contents and respond to messages to help them to better understand what’s happening in our world.
All together we can build a Better Digital World.
What is important to learn about AI-assisted trading?
One of the biggest problem in financial trading is the human being! We need to manage our emotion related to an operation. The exit time or the open time can be influenced by our mind; sometimes we don’t exit from an operation after the stop-loss because we don’t want to register a loss or we think that we can recover the situation. This is the biggest mistake a trader can do.
An intelligent and automated system does not have emotions, so it will execute the operation when the signal warning.More, the effort to manage a huge amount of signals from many sources, together with much data to analyze, will complicate the trader life. An AI backed trading system has no problem to cross signals and analyze huge amount if data calculating the exact entry point and raising the correct signal.
How do you think AITrading can benefit the market as a whole?
Each person has a different approach, a different level of risk, so we need to respond to the “Customization” needs, giving the market powerful tools to manage the operations based on a single trader profile. Something like a “personal assistant” that understand our risk and suggest the best operation for our mindset.
This can open a new frontier in the market, a new approach to the financial trading that foster new opportunity. Everyone can execute financial operations based on personal profile, a new, “democratic” approach to the matter. This is what I call the “Trading Democratization”, correct operations executed in the correct time based on our mindset. This is something that never can happen without an intelligent system that use Artificial Intelligence to analyze data, signals and raise the correct, personalized operations.
Where do you see the future of crypto in a handful of years from now?
If we talk of “Financial Democratization”, we can’t miss talking about the cryptocurrencies and the impact they have on the financial market. The Bitcoin has taught us that a new paradigm in the currencies is possible. A new scenario where the finance sector is no more the fulcrum of our financial world.
This is awesome but, sadly, it raises a lot of other problems.
As first, I think that the money laundering is the biggest hurdle to the complete acceptance of the crypto world. We need a regulation that permits a trusted association of the transactions to the right people. Without that, the cryptocurrencies can be rejected by any government.
So, I hope that in the near future we can have a world of cryptocurrencies that offer the ability to clearly recognize the subjects behind the transactions.
A new but regulated, Currency Democratization.
How do you see the perspective of the development of the industry (AI+ML in trading powered by blockchain)?
Our world is changing, the digital transformation represent a paradigm shift for the society, the economy and the institutions. Thanks to the digital diffusion, we are moving toward an Everyone to Everyone world; a place where each of us can build his presence having his seat. A world where the decisions are shared between subjects. And the financial sector is not immune to this epochal change.
Here I see the great benefits of an intelligent, automated and personalized system for trading financial assets. A democratic system that permits each person to execute complex financial operations without a big knowledge and without the hassle of emotive attitude.
This is only possible combining the most powerful Emerging Technologies we have in our time. Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain can be the twin of the future in the financial trading.
