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Institutional Investor (May 30)

2016/ 05/ 31 by jd in Global News

Firms “are doubling down on machine learning and other quantitative investing efforts.” More advanced than rule-based algorithms, “with machine learning, a computer sifts through billions of data points, picking up patterns. Armed with this knowledge, it learns trading behaviors such as buying dips or selling high over time, based on what it has gleaned about the market from past and present data.”  Despite the inroads, however, human ingenuity remains essential.

 

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