Kris Longmore

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Back to Basics Part 3: Backtesting in Algorithmic Trading

This is the final post in our 3-part Back to Basics series. You may be interested in checking out the other posts in this series: Part 1: An Introduction to Algorithmic Trading Part 2: How to Succeed at Algorithmic Trading We’ve also compiled this series into an eBook which you can download for free here.

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Back to Basics Part 2 – Succesful Algorithmic Trading

This is the second post in our 3-part Back to Basics series on successful algorithmic trading. You may be interested in checking out the other posts in this series: Part 1: An Introduction to Algorithmic Trading Part 3: Backtesting in Algorithmic Trading There is a lot of information about algorithmic and quantitative trading in the public

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Intro to Algorithmic Trading – An Algorithmic Trading System

This is the first post in our 3-part Back to Basics series which serve as an introduction to algorithmic trading. You may be interested in checking out the other posts in this series: Part 2: How to Succeed at Algorithmic Trading Part 3: Backtesting in Algorithmic Trading This is the first in a series of posts in

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Demystifying the Hurst Exponent – Part 2

What if you had a tool that could help you decide when to apply mean reversion strategies and when to apply momentum to a particular time series? That’s the promise of the Hurst exponent, which helps characterise a time series as mean reverting, trending, or a random walk. For a brief introduction to Hurst, including

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Hurst Exponent for Algorithmic Trading

This is the first post in a two-part series about the Hurst Exponent. Tom and I worked on this series together. I drew on some of his earlier work as well as other resources, including Quantstart.com. UPDATE 03/01/16: The Python code below has been updated with a more accurate algorithm for calculating the Hurst Exponent.

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Machine Learning in Algorithmic Trading Systems: Opportunities and Pitfalls

Last night it was my pleasure to present at the Tyro Fintech Hub in Sydney on the topic of using machine learning in algorithmic trading systems. Here you can download the presentation Many thanks to all who attended and particularly for the engaging questions. I thoroughly enjoyed myself! In particular, thanks to Andrien Juric for oraganising

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Recommended Reading

If there’s one thing I’ve done a lot of over the last few years, reading would be it. I’ve devoted a great deal of time to devouring any material that I thought might give me an edge in my trading – textbooks, academic papers, blog articles, training courses, lecture notes, conference presentations…anything and everything I could get

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Machine learning for Trading: Part 2

Introduction My first post on using machine learning for financial prediction took an in-depth look at various feature selection methods as a data pre-processing step in the quest to mine financial data for profitable patterns. I looked at various methods to identify predictive features including Maximal Information Coefficient (MIC), Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE), algorithms with

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My experience dealing with Zorro’s support team

Disclaimer: I am not posting this at the behest of the developers of Zorro, nor do I receive any form of payment or commission for this post. I felt that I should relay this experience because it was an example of customer service that went way above and beyond the call of duty in terms of

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Machine learning for Trading:
Adventures in Feature Selection

Updates: 2019: In this first Machine Learning for Trading post, we’ve added a section on feature selection using the Boruta package, equity curves of a simple trading system, and some Lite-C code that generates the training data.  2020: I’ve updated the original post with some new thinking about data-mining, refreshed the code, updated the data and

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