<t>Coming back to the topic of designed algorithms and their increasingly popularity. For proprietary desks or hedge funds algorithmic trading exempt the traders from the necessity of placing orders of defined quantities according to some parameters and constraint inputted to the algorithm. The timi...

Building algorithms that mimic human behaviour and adding some flavour from genetic and biologic designs has become increaingly fashionale in QF. Any thoughts on this trend?

Why forecasting is so important?

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Fermion:It would be advisable to ponder on risk and hedging in terms of information and decisionmaking rather than of history and volatility.

<t>exotiq:I think our interpretations of model in quantitative finance as an analytical tool or lens may well be accurate from distinctive disciplinary perspectives which eventually converge. Therefore, I concur with your defination of a model in which unnecessary variables are stripped out. And yet...

[Collector]: but what we need in trading is modelling emotionomics on a agregated levelAs a matter of fact the measurement is not only possible but implementable.

<t>A widely held assumption among pratictioners in quantitative finance is that models are served as analytical tools necessary for understanding and evaluating financial instruments and their associated risks in relation to risk management and hedging practice; that is, in order to spot opportuniti...

...and Paul Wilmott??

<t>We're interested in recruiting a motivated trader to manage a risky portfolio. Practically speaking, this means the risks one will face is something that only few can truly handle. Question:Are people who take above average risks in recreational situations (extreme skiing, rock climbing, etc.), a...

Can be summed up in two words: volatility frown.

PIMCO

[Energetic]:Why do we need a permanent base on the Moon?Try a google search with "space colonization" and "Gerard O'Neill" as the search terms.

"Wives create their husbands. They begin with that rough raw material that blundering well-meaning and handsome youth-fulness they have fallen in love with, and then commence the forty years of unstining labour it takes to make the man with whom they can live." (Niall Williams)

Newton:Thank you for reminding us who is around the corner.Good luck