Global currency trading volumes fell for the first time since 2001, a further sign that banks and hedge funds have cut their international activities as tighter regulations and higher risk-aversion begin to bite. Roughly $5.1 trillion a day of global Woodriff initially hired Vogel as a consultant at his hedge fund, Quantitative Investment Management "It's a sign of potentially being a great trading quant if you're good at machine learning, no matter the domain or discipline," Woodriff told Bloomberg. Hedge funds treaded water last week amid low trading volumes and few market catalysts visible to move risk assets one way or the other, according to the latest data from Lyxor Asset Management’s Weekly Brief. The Lyxor Hedge Fund index was flat through With a few tweaks, it’s the backbone of QIM’s trading programs today, which buy and sell about 1,500 individual stocks and ETFs. Whatever it is — he’s not saying — it’s helped propel QIM to become one of the top hedge funds in the world. Shell’s trading unit was one of the seven counterparties to the Mexican government, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private. Shell’s involvement is the first known participation of an oil trader in the hedge the first time an oil company has taken part in the world’s large commodities hedging program, according to Bloomberg, citing four people with knowledge of the matter. Shell’s trading unit was one of the seven counterparties to the Mexican government .
ZERO HEDGE – While the trading world was focused on the latest news involving Deutsche Bank, namely that the troubled German bank had been contemplating a merger with Germany’s other mega-bank, Commerzbank as part of a strategy to sell all or part of (New York Post) Goldman Sachs is a money-making machine — literally. The Wall Street firm is planning for a future when more bond trading is done automatically by computers…The program, called Goldman Sachs Algorithm, has been around for about a year Hedge funds — under the Managed Money heading in the weekly Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commitments of Traders report — added 4,277 short contracts for WTI crude oil last week and dropped 20,113 long contracts. The movement reflects The skewness of implied volatilities are not certainly hinting any clarity in hedging sentiments but outwardly seems only when the underlying spot FX price on expiration date is trading at the strike price of the call and put options purchased. .