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James Ma Weiming
James Ma Weiming
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James Ma Weiming

James Ma Weiming is a software engineer based in Singapore. His studies and research are focused on financial technology, machine learning, data sciences, and computational finance. James started his career in financial services working with treasury fixed income and foreign exchange products, and fund distribution. His interests in derivatives led him to Chicago, where he worked with veteran traders of the Chicago Board of Trade to devise high-frequency, low-latency strategies to game the market. He holds an MS degree in finance from Illinois Tech's Stuart School of Business in the United States and a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Nanyang Technological University.
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Building a mean-reverting algorithmic trading system

With our broker now accepting orders and responding to our requests, we can begin to design a fully-automated trading system. In this section, we will explore how to design and implement a mean-reverting algorithmic trading system.

Designing the mean-reversion algorithm

Suppose we believe that in normal market conditions, prices fluctuate, but tend to revert back to some short-term level, such as the average of the most recent prices. In this example, we assume that the EUR/USD currency pair is exhibiting a mean-reversion property in the near short-term period. First, we resample the raw tick-level data into standard time series intervals, for example, at one-minute intervals...

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James Ma Weiming

James Ma Weiming is a software engineer based in Singapore. His studies and research are focused on financial technology, machine learning, data sciences, and computational finance. James started his career in financial services working with treasury fixed income and foreign exchange products, and fund distribution. His interests in derivatives led him to Chicago, where he worked with veteran traders of the Chicago Board of Trade to devise high-frequency, low-latency strategies to game the market. He holds an MS degree in finance from Illinois Tech's Stuart School of Business in the United States and a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Nanyang Technological University.
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