Position Sizing: Why Great Trading Strategies Fail Without Risk Control
Position Sizing: Why Great Trading Strategies Fail Without Risk Control Introduction: Why Most Traders Lose Despite Having “Good” Strategies Retail traders often believe that success in markets depends on discovering the perfect indicator, chart pattern, or secret setup. In professional trading, especially at high-frequency and systematic desks, that belief is incomplete and often costly. The […]
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Most HFT Blowups Come From Software Errors, Not Market Moves
Most HFT Blowups Come From Software Errors, Not Market Moves Introduction: The Hidden Risk in High-Frequency Trading High-frequency trading (HFT) is often portrayed as a battlefield where nanoseconds decide fortunes and where market volatility is the primary threat. Retail narratives focus on flash crashes, sudden macro news, and violent price swings as the main sources […]
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GPU-Accelerated Backtesting: Reducing Strategy Research Time by 80%
GPU-Accelerated Backtesting: Reducing Strategy Research Time by 80% Backtesting determines whether a trading idea deserves real capital. As quantitative strategies become complex and datasets expand to tick-level granularity, traditional CPU-based backtesting increasingly becomes a bottleneck. This is visible in options, index futures, commodities, execution algorithms, and high-frequency trading research. GPU-Accelerated Backtesting replaces sequential execution with […]
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