Course Objectives
By the end of this comprehensive course, you will be fully versed in the practicalities of employing
algorithms in electronic trading:
- Classifications and comparisons of types of algorithms
- What buy and sell side use, what are the opportunities and issues for each?
- How to choose and design appropriate algorithms for impact and reliability
- Identify algorithms for active/passive trading and portfolio management
- The appropriateness of different trading or investment strategies for algorithmic trading and the operational and regulatory issues
- System requirements, the options available and the best approach for implementation
- How algorithms impact on market micro and macro structure
- Comparison of using simple and off the shelve algorithms with the practical implementation of complex proprietary algorithms
- How to manage an algorithmic trading platform in practice