Yesterday there was a lot of talk about the Facebook CEO hearing when the real stuff is happening behind the scenes. We know that Cambridge Analytica harvested data of up to 87 million FB users -in actuality that number could be lower, but you can bet all of them, regardless…
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How do quant funds generate algos ?
In the quant world, you need to be able to do modeling with copulas, you need to be able to do stochastic volatility option pricing. You may refer here.
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Thanks, CS. Link to Ed Thorp's review: http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/11/04700235/0470023511.pdf. He broke even on Black Monday 1987 and was up for that month. Astonishing.
Leroy Satchel Paige quote “Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you” is timeless.
How do you mine for sentiment on Twtr, which is a pile of crap “sentiment abound” with unhappy people ?
The question is, how do you gauge for sentiment ? Across pentabytes of audio and word data ?
Using Bayesian statistics, I suppose. Perhaps a computer scientist can help us here ?
Suppose you are football player and you have 1 mil. Twit followers. By all accounts, you are an "influencer". Then every celebrity in every field is an "influencer".
Twitter is a make believe world, a matrix. It amps up noise, and then the world feeds on it, mistakenly for reality.
Its fuel is instant gratification.