Summary — Life of a Trade
Quick summary of the section on the trade lifecycle, before we move on to the final section on the perspectives held dear by various business units in a bank. The post Summary — Life of a Trade...
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In this last section of this post series on how a bank works, we will see how the quants, quantitative developers and the middle office professionals (and the rest) see trades and trading activity. The...
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The perspective of the mathematical wizards of the bank, and why they often appear far-removed from the rest of the bank. The post Quants appeared first on Unreal Blog.
View ArticleQuant Developers
The product-centric view of the quantitative developer suits their work paradigm. The post Quant Developers appeared first on Unreal Blog.
View ArticleMiddle Office
The perspective employed by the Middle Office team is that of queues running in a first-in, first-out mode. The post Middle Office appeared first on Unreal Blog.
View ArticleOther Trade Perspectives
The perspective that is most common in the bank is still trade-centric. But view that the whole bank appreciates is the view of the senior management, which is narrowly focussed on the bottom line....
View ArticleWhere to Go from Here?
Winding up this long series with book recommendations. All right, recommending my own book... The post Where to Go from Here? appeared first on Unreal Blog.
View ArticleHow Greece Got Quantitatively Eased
Would it be so bad if Greece left the Euro zone? Here is the story of how Greece got quantitatively eased, and when the Greeks decided enough was enough. The post How Greece Got Quantitatively Eased...
View ArticleIncome Inequality
I read on BBC yesterday that the richest 62 people in the world now earn as much as the poorest half, which would be about 3.5 billion people! Although there is some confusion about the methodology, it...
View ArticleMost Likely Wealth Distribution
In the last post, I gave vent to all my left-wing righteousness against the growing income disparity. Then it occurred to me — a totally uniform wealth distribution is stochastically unlikely. In fact,...
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