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FX quant macro/Python/burgers. Co-founder: @turnleafan forecasting inflation with ML. Founder: @cuemacro . Books: Trading Thalesians, Book of Alternative Data.

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received final cover for The Book of Alternative Data which Alexander Denev & I have written. Wiley publishing in July! Pre-order at Amazon #altdata #datascience #nlp #quant
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@tomgara I now want to try falafel in a taco
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this sounds like a conspiracy Thierry
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What if Thierry Henry was a French spy in the Belgian camp all along?
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@Birdyword I was kind of disappointed when I had a Philly cheesesteak in Philly.. Myabe it's better in Tokyo?
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@dieworkwear He’s have this one covered
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@SMTuffy I wonder whether the AI will work out I never want to store stuff in OneDrive, I never want to use Edge etc. despite repeatedly defaulting to it. Probably not.
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I’m now part of an elite group! Thanks @ZakDavid !
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bought “Trading Fixed Income & FX in Emerging Markets”, learnt a lot from it, has lots of stuff that’s typically not in books (more stuff you learn on the job). Got lots of ideas for trading strategies from it.
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There've been lots of great threads on vol trading recently on fintwit from the likes of @VolQuant , @bennpeifert & many more! I thought I'd give it a go explaining how to backtest FX options + include Python code samples! 1/n
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learn Python
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Forget Chinese or Hindi. If you want to learn a language which is truly global, learn French
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Dynamic Asset Allocation with Asset-Specific Regime Forecasts #QuantLinkADay
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Was great to meet @__paleologo in London at his talk about backtesting!
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can't believe it's exactly 5 years since I quit my job at Nomura to work independently. It's been a fun, frustrating, but ultimately fruitful 5 years!
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Option Volume Imbalance as a predictor for equity market returns #QuantLinkADay
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there are two types of people: the folks that type EUR Curncy<GO> & the others that type EURUSD Curncy<GO>
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FinLlama: Financial Sentiment Classification for Algorithmic Trading Applications #QuantLinkADay
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I've published paper with @FT , using FT machine readable news to understand macro markets. Download report from FT at & blog - includes analysis of @RobinWigg & @elerianm FT articles.. their sentiment tracks hedge fund returns!
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A mathematical framework for modelling order book dynamics #QuantLinkADay
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Understanding the least well-kept secret of high-frequency trading #QuantLinkADay
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14 things successful people do before breakfast
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Mispricing and Risk Premia in Currency Markets #QuantLinkADay
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@GZuckerman It was extremely sad what happened in Iraq, really don’t want the same thing to repeated anywhere else. The Middle East needs peace.
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excited to announce that The Book of Alternative Data by Alexander Denev & I is now out to read on Kindle, get the eBook at
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reminder: all time high in EUR/USD is 1.6037, not 1.1733
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Data-driven Methods for Simulation and Forecasting of Financial Time Series #QuantLinkADay
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@guan Normalise reporting of inflation to 3 decimal places
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Been writing Jupyter notebooks for a Python, alt data/NLP + large datasets course. As a result been using many libraries for large datasets.. here are a few takeaways on large datasets in Python 1/8
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Maximizing Portfolio Predictability with Machine Learning #QuantLinkADay
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Optimal trend following portfolios #QuantLinkADay
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Predicting public market behavior from private equity deals #QuantLinkADay
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Deep Learning for Options Trading: An End-To-End Approach #QuantLinkADay
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@VolQuant @TheTerminal @Refinitiv You should try my findatapy library, has wrappers for BBG and Eikon 😀 Has lots of extra features like multi threading, ticker mappings (whole vol surface is 1 line), use of JSON to make requests if you want etc. -
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Systemic risk indicator based on implied and realized volatility #QuantLinkADay
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I met an interesting guy next, Gabriel, to Canary Wharf station, who’s looking for a graduate role (and he’s doing several masters!) - you can contact him on his QR codes
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Course 2023-2024 in Portfolio Allocation and Asset Management #QuantLinkADay
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Machine Learning Applied to Active Fixed-income Portfolio Management: A Lasso Logit Approach #QuantLinkADay
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excuse me for a moment whilst I trade *the Forex*
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Volatility Timing: Why Risk-Based Rules Outperform Naïve Diversification #QuantLinkADay
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Technical Analysis with Machine Learning Classification Algorithms: Can it Still ‘Beat’ the Buy-and-Hold Strategy? #QuantLinkADay
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@guan @felixsalmon Tony Blair must be happy, he is no longer the most unpopular ex-prime minister
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@BisphamGreen Now, that’s what I really call a *gamma* squeeze...
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Intraday Returns Forecasting Using Machine Learning: Evidence from the Brazilian Stock Market #QuantLinkADay
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C++ Design Patterns for Low-latency Applications Including High-frequency Trading #QuantLinkADay
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Stock Price Prediction using Sentiment Analysis and Deep Learning for Indian Markets #QuantLinkADay
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Machine Learning for Continuous-Time Finance #QuantLinkADay
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I’m gonna start a company Beyond Vegetables, synthesising carrots from beef burgers - funding secured
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Predicting Financial Crises: The Role of Asset Prices #QuantLinkADay
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Forecasting Volatility with Machine Learning and Rough Volatility: Example from the Crypto-Winter #QuantLinkADay
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excited to be co-authoring a new finance book, contract signed.. details soon :-)
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finally got my hardback copy of The Book of Alternative Data by Alexander Denev & me! Hardback available on Amazon US at & worldwide on Kindle. #altdata #datascience #python
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The Book of Alternative Data by Alexander Denev & I has been released on hardback today on Amazon UK at #altdata #datascience #python
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Expert Aggregation for Financial Forecasting #QuantLinkADay
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probably the most important Excel tip... Start Exce; by Start / Run and typing "excel /x" so it starts a separate instance for each xlsx.. when it (inevitably) crashes, it'll bring down only 1 spreadsheet, rather than every single sheet you're working on...
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My book on the ancient world finally came home to the Acropolis
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Linear and nonlinear causality in financial markets #QuantLinkADay
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Few-Shot Learning Patterns in Financial Time-Series for Trend-Following Strategies #QuantLinkADay
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Asset Allocation: From Markowitz to Deep Reinforcement Learning #QuantLinkADay
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Ordered @donnelly_brent book, and got it today in the post! Already started reading, has lots of great hints and tips for trading markets.. great for discretionary & systematic traders alike!
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Linking microblogging sentiments to stock price movement: An application of GPT-4 #QuantLinkADay
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algorithmic vs probabilistic ML - great talk from @twiecki #ODSC
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Winner if Open Data Science award, @twiecki #ODSC well deserved for PyMC3!
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there’s a dude extolling the virtues of cryptocurrencies with a megaphone in Canary Wharf shopping centre hmmm..
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The Forex, Python & burgers 🍔- trying to be on brand
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Detecting data-driven robust statistical arbitrage strategies with deep neural networks #QuantLinkADay
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Linkages among the Foreign Exchange, Stock, and Bond Markets in Japan and the United States #QuantLinkADay
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"we use machine learning to trade" usually I'm thinking this is what the code looks like -> "from scipy.stats import linregress"
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currently co-authoring "The Book of Alternative Data" with Alex Denev out on Wiley in 2020.. any alt datasets which you'd particularly like us to look at?
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Machine learning has figured me out
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Strategic mean-variance investing under mean-reverting stock returns #QuantLinkADay
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Learning Probability Distributions in Macroeconomics and Finance #QuantLinkADay
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is in New York! Good to be back!
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Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Trading Automation in The Stock Market #QuantLinkADay
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Exploring Classic Quantitative Strategies #QuantLinkADay
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I've been a fan of @ManQuantTech Arctic database.. they've now released ArcticDB with local/cloud backend for versioned time series. I've added support to use ArcticDB in my findatapy library for market data! Jupyter NB demo at
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impressed with @vaex_io out-of-core DataFrames Python library, very quick to do computations on 100GB of tick data! Part of the trick.. decent parallel processing, maxing out every core (but not running out of RAM...!)
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just got the first publishing proofs for The Book of Alternative Data from Wiley which Alexander Denev & I have written.. getting closer to publication! #altdata #datascience #quant #python
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FinGPT: Open-Source Financial Large Language Models #QuantLinkADay
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Identifying News Shocks from Forecasts #QuantLinkADay
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Tower Bridge sunset
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pleased to announce that The Book of Alternative Data by Alexander Denev & I will be used as a course textbook for Gene Ekster's class on alt data on M.S. in Mathematics in Finance @nyuniversity Courant
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An Unconventional FX Tail Risk Story #QuantLinkADay
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Measure of Dependence for Financial Time-Series #QuantLinkADay
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machine learning is not necessarily a black box - nice talk from @lopezdeprado #QuantMinds
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it's a very good characteristic of a medium of payment like a currency to move 35% on a fake tweet
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Financial and Macroeconomic Data Through the Lens of a Nonlinear Dynamic Factor Model #QuantLinkADay
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Causal Discovery in Financial Markets: A Framework for Nonstationary Time-Series Data #QuantLinkADay
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I can't believe it's exactly 12 years today since I started working full time in finance. Thanks everyone who helped me on the way!
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A quick thread on intraday binary option trading... can you make money from it (like all the spam messages suggest...)? The short answer is probably not, and the vast majority of retail lose money on it. 1/n
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my finmarketpy open source Python library for backtesting trading strategies has now been forked 400 times on GitHub and has over 2300 stars! Download it from #opensource
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Quantitative statistical analysis of order-splitting behaviour of individual trading accounts in the Japanese stock market over nine years #QuantLinkADay
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Deep Limit Order Book Forecasting #QuantLinkADay
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"If you build models you are short vol, because when the world changes it breaks" @EmanuelDerman #GDERIVS16
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Just got my copy of @GZuckerman new book on Jim Simons and RenTech. I’m already hooked.. a great book, thoroughly recommended!
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Greement?
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inspired by @LorcanRK & @TheStalwart , I’m going to do “1 like = 1 burger 🍔 recommendation” (well, till I get bored)
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Reconciling Open Interest with Traded Volume in Perpetual Swaps #QuantLinkADay
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Lead-lag detection and network clustering for multivariate time series with an application to the US equity market #QuantLinkADay
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@nntaleb I remember one of my maths professors at university saying virtually the same thing “the best mathematicians are the worst at arithmetic”
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