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Published inNov 2019

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Sebastien Donadio

Sourav Ghosh

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This chapter explored what happens when algorithmic trading system and algorithmic trading strategies are deployed to live markets after months, and often years, of development and research. Many common issues with live trading strategies, such as not behaving or performing according to expectations, were discussed and we provided common causes and possible solutions or approaches to remedy these. This should help to prepare anyone looking to build and deploy algorithmic trading strategies to live markets, and equip them with the knowledge to improve trading strategy components when things don't go as expected.

Once the initial trading strategies are deployed and running in live markets as per expectations, we discussed the evolving nature of the algorithmic trading business and global markets in general. We covered a lot of different factors that cause profitable...

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Sebastien Donadio

Sebastien Donadio is the Chief Technology Officer at Tradair, responsible for leading the technology. He has a wide variety of professional experience, including being head of software engineering at HC Technologies, partner and technical director of a high-frequency FX firm, a quantitative trading strategy software developer at Sun Trading, working as project lead for the Department of Defense. He also has research experience with Bull SAS, and an IT Credit Risk Manager with Socit Gnrale while in France. He has taught various computer science courses for the past ten years in the University of Chicago, NYU and Columbia University. His main passion is technology but he is also a scuba diving instructor and an experienced rock-climber.
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Sourav Ghosh

Sourav Ghosh has worked in several proprietary, high-frequency algorithmic trading firms over the last decade. He has built and deployed extremely low latency, high-throughput automated trading systems for trading exchanges around the world, across multiple asset classes. He specializes in statistical arbitrage market-making and pairs trading strategies with the most liquid global futures contracts. He is currently the vice president at an investment bank based in São Paulo, Brazil. He holds a master's in computer science from the University of Southern California. His areas of interest include computer architecture, FinTech, probability theory and stochastic processes, statistical learning and inference methods, and natural language processing.
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