A Workshop, A Webinar, Together With A Question

There is a workshop on the 25th of Feb titled "Market turbulence; monetization; together with universality" past times Mike Lipkin at Columbia University that promises to live on interesting to those traders who direct maintain a physics background. Mike is a old colleague of mine at Cornell's Laboratory of Atomic together with Solid State Physics, together with I fondly squall upward the expert old days when nosotros all hunched over the theory group's computers spell day-dreaming of our future. Mike has since gone on to acquire an options market-maker at the American Stock Exchange together with an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia. He published to a greater extent than or less real interesting query on the "stock pinning" phenomenon close options expirations, i.e. stock prices oft converge to the nearest smasher prices of their options simply earlier expirations.

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I am right away offering an online workshop "Quantitative Momentum Strategies” to a direct issue of traders together with portfolio managers. It volition be conducted inward real-time through Skype, together with the issue of attendees volition live on express to 4. See here for to a greater extent than information.