Saturday, 28 March 2015

Frank(furt)ly speaking

14:26 Posted by The Thalesians (@thalesians) No comments
I recently spoke at MathFinance's annual conference in Frankfurt, which I enjoyed greatly, organised by Uwe Wystrup and his team. I disagree that speaking about your trading strategies will somehow undermine what you are doing. I very much disagree! It is often possible to describe the vagaries of...

Saturday, 21 March 2015

Quants build bridges

15:32 Posted by The Thalesians (@thalesians) No comments
"I revel in the dream of numbers" is the first line of my novel, a novel which I suspect I shall never finish. I suspect if I end up writing a second book, it will most likely be on numbers and markets, a follow up to my first, Trading Thalesians! For whatever reason, I just enjoy mathematics,...

Sunday, 15 March 2015

Learn through travel

19:49 Posted by The Thalesians (@thalesians) No comments
Most of my travelling has revolved around work over the past few years. Travelling for work generally seems like vision, which is blurred much of the time and then suddenly sharpens for the briefest of moments. Sharp, running from meeting to meeting. Blur, staying in nondescript hotels. Sharp, e-mail...

Saturday, 7 March 2015

Macarons, sandwiches & creating trading strategies

07:48 Posted by The Thalesians (@thalesians) No comments
Archaeological evidence suggests that humans have produced bread for at least thirty thousand years. Meat has been a part of humans' diets for much longer, when we were hunter gatherers. In recent millennia, animals were domesticated making it somewhat easier for humans to consume meat. However,...