In the good old days (well, perhaps they weren’t always “good”), you had to build most things yourself, rather than buy them off the shelf. You had to make your own burgers. Ok, I made up that specific case…. However, when it came to technology stacks, there was less available than today, and you…
Category: Data
Data, Events, General
Direction and error in data and elections
by Saeed Amen •
The big news story this week was the US presidential election, as well as elections in the House and the Senate. The result isn’t yet fully known, although at the current time, it looks fairly likely that Joe Biden is going to get to 270 votes in the electoral college to become president. As…
Data, Foreign Exchange, General, Python, TCA
Using AWS Timestream for tick data
by Saeed Amen •
What’s the most important thing we need to have in order to follow financial markets? Burgers… ok, I made that up, the real answer is market data! Whilst there are many other datasets including those drawn from alternative data, which are becoming increasingly important, having a handle on the asset prices is still key. When…
Data, General, Macro
Point forecasts and uncertainty
by Saeed Amen •
If you live in the UK, the weather is always a topic of discussion. Sometimes it rains (well, a lot of the time it rains), other times it’s sunny. What’s somewhat perplexing is the sudden change within a couple of hours. Admittedly this isn’t something unique to the UK, many countries have changeable weather. The…
Data, General, Python
Charts speak a thousand words
by Saeed Amen •
I probably haven’t had as many burgers in recent months as usual. However, I am of endeavouring to make up for that in the coming months! The thing with burgers is, that it’s not just about the taste. It’s also about how good it looks. Even the tastiest burger in the world isn’t going to…
Data, General, Macro
Cutting through election data
by Saeed Amen •
There’s an election soon in early November, which might have been mentioned at least a couple of times, which everyone is talking about. The elections in Nicaragua. Ok, perhaps not quite that one, but at least it’s roughly on the right side of the world. The US presidential election is always a key event in…
Data, General
Listen to the alt data album
by Saeed Amen •
It has been years since I picked up a CD from my shelf, let alone played one. It seems so much more convenient to use iTunes or Spotify. Any track is a few clicks away, playing from their vast archives. Despite that, I somehow miss the whole ritual involved with CDs. Flicking through CDs in…
Data, General
How to make your trading firm data driven
by Saeed Amen •
The question I get asked most, usually revolves around burgers, a variation of where’s my favourite burger place, or what cheese works best on a burger etc. I am always happy to answer these crucial questions! Another question which I get asked often, is how do I begin to use data in my trading?…
Data, Foreign Exchange, General, TCA
TCA to improve your investing
by Saeed Amen •
Chips are supposed to go with burgers, or with fish. However, there are times when chips by themselves are exactly what you need and also as a side for many other dishes. Probably my favourite chips are from Vlaams Friteshuis Vleminckx. It doesn’t look like much, a tiny takeaway nestled in the streets of central…
Data, General, Python
Keeping data vendor APIs simple
by Saeed Amen •
Just imagine that every time you went into a shop, you had to change your clothes, because they had a different dress code? Say your grocer would insist on only people wearing yellow, whilst your supermarket would require red clothes only.. Ok, that’s a somewhat ridiculous example, which would never happen. In practice, we can…