Trends In Market Volumes Around Christmas And The New Year Period

December 17th, 2024 - We analyze trends in volumes over the late December period covering Christmas and the New Year. Typically, market volumes drop sharply during this period and so it is important to be aware of this when planning trades. This note is intended as a guide for such planning with the expectation that the same volume patterns will occur this year.

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Chin Huang
Trading Small-Tick Contracts

November 5th, 2024 - In the spring of 2024, QB began a project to improve algorithm behavior, especially for small-tick assets: those with bid-ask spread larger than the minimum price increment, and with thin order books having small size and few orders.

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Chin Huang
Robust Cost Modeling

September 15th, 2023 - The purpose of this note is to contrast the usual ordinary least squares regression (OLS), which uses a normal error model, against a robust model that uses a log-cosh error model as described in the paper.

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Isabella Murray-Termine