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College Kids Builds Trading Algorithm For HFT

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Mark Melin
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"Is this the top"? Must be close Trading Algorithm version.

As the debate over algorithm based trading heats up in advance of a February 4 extradition hearing for accused algorithmic market manipulator Navinder Sarao nears, it’s difficult not to note the irony in published reports that the winner of a recent algorithmic trading competition, like Sarao, was an independent operating out of his home.

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21 year-old college student, beating the S&P year to date, is still below the algorithmic benchmark over a similar period

Spencer Singleton, a 21 year-old college student, is the latest to win a contest last July run by the algorithmic investing web site...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.