wall street analytics

Introduction to “Nerds on Wall Street“
I hope people think of this book as sort of a Hitchhiker’s Guide to Wired Markets. There are no robots parking cars for six million years, but there are robots trading millions of shares in six milliseconds, so maybe that’s close enough.
In 2006, I got a call from another nerd [...]

Using Genetic Algorithms, Optimization Models, and Evolutionary Computation on Wall Street
“Be careful what you ask for — you might get it.”
My enthusiasm for machine learning, described at the end of the previous chapter, led me to kiss many artificial intelligence ( AI ) frogs. This included many flavors of inductive and explanation – based learning, [...]

A Little AI Goes a Long Way on Wall Street: Artificial Intelligence and Securities Trading
“If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.”
This is a history and technical overview of one of the earliest artificial intelligence (AI) [...]

An Illustrated History of Wired Capital Markets
“Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.” — Ogden Nash
This chapter is based on a number of ever-evolving dinner and lunch talks I have given over many years, all called “Nerds on Wall Street” irrespective of their actual subject. Many financial conference [...]