Algo Trading News Headlines 9/12/2018
Waters Rankings 2018: Best Algorithmic Trading Provider — Wolverine Execution Services
Early forms of automated order entry provided the catalyst for what would become the foundational trading method of modern markets, but the development of algorithmic trading itself has been fascinating — and at times, controversial — evolution in listed markets. Wolverine Execution Services (WEX) has been at the forefront of broker-supplied algo.
Millennium Shuts Down Pioneering Quant Hedge Fund
The closing of Prediction Company, which Millennium bought in 2013, came as a surprise to employees because the firm was profitable, according to a person familiar with the matter. The hedge fund was started by Doyne Farmer and Norm Packard, who are known for their seminal work in developing chaos theory, and managed about $4 billion at its peak.
Comparing 3 Different Types of Neural Network Architectures in Finance
(alpaca.markets)
When working on a machine learning task, the network architecture and the training method are the two key factors to turning a set of data-points into a functional model. But where should different training methods be applied? How do they work? And which is “best”? In this post, we list up three types of training methods and make comparisons among Supervised, Unsupervised and Reinforcement Learning.
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