Alexander Osipovich

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528 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2017 last heard Feb 2025

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Now You Can Try High-Frequency Trading · 26 Mar 2018 podcast

So I wrote about this company called Alpha Trading Labs, which is a startup just getting underway. voice-verified

And what they've done is essentially they've built technology for high frequency trading, all the infrastructure that goes into it. voice-verified

But they've created an online interface where you can go enroll in it and develop your own high frequency trading algorithm. voice-verified

And then they can test it and check it out. voice-verified

And if they think it would make money, they'll run it in the real live markets and share the profits with you. voice-verified

Yeah, basically every high frequency trading strategy is a computer program. voice-verified

So you write a computer program that you say, hey, I want to trade this way in response to this type of stuff happening in the markets. voice-verified

And you submit it to the people who run Alpha Trading Labs and they'll test it and they'll kind of screen it various ways. voice-verified

And the better candidates they'll unleash into the live markets. voice-verified

Volatility is kind of the lifeblood of high-frequency traders. voice-verified

Back in 2008, 2009, when markets were extremely volatile, they were making tons of money. voice-verified

Volatility collapsed and stayed very low for a few years. voice-verified

And that caused a massive retrenchment where companies went out of business. voice-verified

Larger high-frequency traders bought weaker high-frequency traders. voice-verified

And this was sort of a big kind of voice-verified

seen in the industry. voice-verified

Since fall has picked up a little bit in the past few weeks, they're doing better now. voice-verified

But broadly speaking, it's not what it used to be in kind of the glory days. voice-verified

High-frequency trading is a weird subset of trading. voice-verified

It tends to attract a lot of people who have PhDs in physics or math or computer science. voice-verified

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