This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Tuesday, 08/02/2016. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!
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Mailbag: How Do You Move From Quant Developer To Quant Trader? [Quant Start]I was emailed recently with a career-related question about jumping from one quant role to another. The question posed was "How can I make the jump from being a quant/software developer to a quant trader/researcher in a fund or investment bank?". This is certainly possible and does happen occasionally. However, it will require some extra-curricular work, and some initiative, in order to
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Fine Wine is a Fine Addition to Your Investment Portfolio [Alpha Architect]Here we are in August, a great time to drinkand thinkabout wine. Of course, as a research-focused finance blog, our angle on wine is a bit different than that of Dr. Vino. A summary of the discussion: we estimate a real financial return to wine investment (net of storage costs) of 4.1%, which exceeds bonds, art, and stamps. Get your attention? Lets dive right in, but grab a glass of
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Cassandra as a Historical Finance DB [Ryan Kennedy]While the explosion of noSQL database offerings of late can be daunting, each of them is typically suited for a particular purpose. Most CRUD web-applications can be comfortably done with either noSQL or a RDBMS, however for true high performance applications, the choice of database is of make-or-break importance. In this post I'll explain what we typically want from a database to store