I spent last week listening to experts in artificial intelligence talk about what AI can and will bring to the markets and the broader world. What is patently clear is that AI is here now and is only going to expand. As Jay Biondo,...
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Myths and Misconceptions Surrounding Artificial Intelligence
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” -Alan Turing in 1950’s seminal “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” While it feels like only recently that company after company, in...
Deep Dive With JLN: How Can The Financial Industry Draw In The Next Generation Of Talent?
Note: Scroll to the bottom to view the video in three smaller segments. The future for the financial markets is bright, even if the headlines don't always say so. John Lothian News' CEO Jim Kharouf sat down with Brian Mehta, chief marketing officer at Trading...
Sun Trading up for sale; Plight of Deutsche Boerse’s Kengeter; MiFID negotiations
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff Resumes from students interested in the MarketsWiki Education Recruiting event on October 16 are starting to flow to us. If you know of a student who may be interested in an internship opportunity in the industry, please direct...
Quant Trading and Superpowers – Morgan Slade
“You have a chance, single-handedly, without anyone looking at your resume, to try and change an industry.” In this video from MarketsWiki Education’s World of Opportunity event in New York, Morgan Slade, CEO of CloudQuant, discusses the difficulties most people face...
Long-Term Investors are Gamblers?; Insider Trading Case Tests Friendship; Math Geeks Scramble to Defend Index Boon
First Read Hits & Takes By JLN Staff People lined up on LaSalle Street at midday yesterday like there was a sports championship parade happening. Instead, it was just an eclipse.~JJL John M. Ruth has joined Grey Street Capital as Chief Operating Officer. Ruth was...
CloudQuant Opens the Trading Door to a Crowd
News broke today that CloudQuant allocated $15 million to a non-employee, crowd researcher using its platform. Thus begins what I think is one of the most interesting, innovative, disruptive and game changing market trading concepts. Somewhere in the United Kingdom, a...
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Washington Made a Fortress for Inauguration After Capitol Riot
First Read $25,451/$300,000 (8.5%) Ricardo Manrique and Philip Slocum ++++ ++++ Elevated Risk Levels, Volatility Seen Continuing as 2021 Debuts Suzanne Cosgrove and Matt Raebel - John Lothian News The pandemic of 2020 and its associated economic fallout pushed the...
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Why everyone is now an options trader; Strategists See Growing Bets on Emerging-Markets Via ETF Options
Why everyone is now an options trader; Strategists See Growing Bets on Emerging-Markets Via ETF Options
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