Louise Bedford, Author at Trading Game

Clever People Doing Clever Things

History and ScienceBy Louise Bedford September 21, 2011

As opposed to 5000 fat bogans turning up the opening of a furniture store selling $1 hot dogs we have some really clever buggers doing some really clever things Bet you that you wont see this one the evening news . PS; Click on the pic to get an insight into the science of bogans

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Bridgewater…….Again

Trading ResourcesBy Louise Bedford September 20, 2011

There seems to be a bit of a theme this week.

UBS

Trading ResourcesBy Louise Bedford September 20, 2011

The UBS situation explained.

Soc Gen

Trading ResourcesBy Louise Bedford September 20, 2011

On Monday, January 21, 2008, concerns about deteriorating economic conditions in the United States caused a precipitous fall in the Asian markets. Investors in Hong Kong and Tokyo besieged brokerage firms. Markets in the United States happened to be closed, for the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday, but U.S. stock-futures trading in foreign markets showed…

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HFT

Trading ResourcesBy Louise Bedford September 20, 2011

In recent years, advances in telecommunications, computing capacity and financial software platform capabilities have seen huge growth in the field of High Frequency and Algorithmic Trading (now accounting for over 70% of all equity trades placed on US exchanges and in excess of 77% in the UK). HFT firms (which can often make more than 80…

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Twitter For Decision Making

Trading PsychologyBy Louise Bedford September 19, 2011

Most people know my opinion about twitter – it is the intellectual equivalent of yelling things from a moving car. As such this attempt to to use twitter to track market sentiment doesnt thrill me too much. As an old stats tutor used to constantly drum into our not very bright heads – correlation does…

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UBS

Trading ResourcesBy Louise Bedford September 18, 2011

How do you inform your employees that one of them has flushed $2B down the toilet – like this. Dear colleagues, We regret to inform you that yesterday we uncovered a case of unauthorized trading by a trader in the Investment Bank. We have reported it to the markets in line with regulatory disclosure obligations.…

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Ray Dalio – Nothing Surprising’ About European Crisis

Trading ResourcesBy Louise Bedford September 18, 2011

I have written about the interesting (somewhat bonkers) world of Bridgewater the colossal hedge fund. Its founder Ray Dalio has some interesting things to say about Europe and risk.

Intuitive Thinking

Trading PsychologyBy Louise Bedford September 14, 2011

The marvels and the flaws that I’ll be talking about are the marvels and the flaws of intuitive thinking. It’s a topic I’ve been thinking about for a long time, a little over 40 years. I wanted to show you a picture of my collaborator in this early work. What I’ll be trying to do…

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