{"id":58838,"date":"2017-07-07T00:25:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T04:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=58838"},"modified":"2017-07-07T00:25:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T04:25:59","slug":"how-quant-funds-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2017\/how-quant-funds-work.html","title":{"rendered":"How Quant Funds Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Harvest) The first investors to take advantage of computers to process data and make investments were \u2018quant funds\u2019 that continue today to be successful at scale. The tools at their disposal were statistics and linear models \u2013 limited by the computational capacity and the availability of structured data to apply statistics to. Today \u2013 the successful quants have become enormous, managing $30+ billion and the smaller players moved towards high frequency trading. At their core, traditional \u2018quant\u2019 strategies are based on statistical correlations: i.e. linear models.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hvst.com\/posts\/93929-how-quant-funds-work-in-1-paragraph\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Harvest) The first investors to take advantage of computers to process data and make investments were \u2018quant funds\u2019 that continue today to be successful at scale. The tools at their disposal were statistics and linear models \u2013 limited by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58839,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58838\/revisions\/58839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}