Quantitative Trading

By:   Xin Guo (Department of Statistics Stanford University), Tze Leung Lai (Stanford University, California, USA), Howard Shek (Tower Research Capital, New York City, NY, USA), Samuel Po-Shing Wong (5Lattice Securities Limited, Hong Kong, China)
Imprint:   Chapman & Hall/CRC
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   1.400kg
ISBN:   9781498706483
ISBN 10:   1498706487
Pages:   357
Publication Date:   15 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Xin Guo is the Coleman Fung Chair Professor of Financial Modeling in the department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, UC Berkeley. She founded the Berkeley Risk Analysis and Data Analytics Research (RADAR) Lab and holds a courtesy appointment with the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Prior to UC Berkeley, she was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and an Associate Professor at Cornell University. Her main research interests are stochastic control, stochastic processes and applications. In addition to high frequency trading modeling and analysis, her recent research includes singular controls, impulse controls, non-linear expectations, mean-field games, and filtration enlargement with application to credit risk. Tze Leung Lai is a Professor of Statistics and, by courtesy, of Health Research and Policy in the School of Medicine and of the Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering (ICME) in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. He is Director of the Financial and Risk Modeling Institute, Co-Director of the Biostatistics Core of the Stanford Cancer Institute, and Co-Director of the Center for Innovative Study Design at the Stanford School of Medicine. He has held regular and visiting faculty appointments at Columbia University, UC Berkeley, and Nankai University, and holds advisory positions with the University of Hong Kong, Peking University, and Tsinghua University. Howard Shek is a senior researcher at Tower Research Capital, where he has built and led the Core Research team with a mandate that covers the wide spectrum of research topics in automated trading. He has over 15 years of quantitative research and trading experience in fixed-income arbitrage, market microstructure, volatility estimation, option pricing, and portfolio theory, and has held senior trading and research positions at Merrill Lynch and J. P. Morgan, focusing on proprietary trading in fixed-income derivatives. Samuel Po-Shing Wong is CEO and Chief Quant of 5Lattice Securities, a proprietary trading company in Hong Kong that develops quantitative trading algorithms and corresponding risk management methodologies from statistical data analysis and machine learning. He also teaches the course of Algorithmic Trading for Stanford Quantitative Finance Program in Hong Kong and serves as an Honorary Professor of the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at The University of Hong Kong.

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