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On Wednesday Wall Street was set to open little changed following weak industrial orders data, with deals showing investors still see value in the market despite indexes trading near all-time highs...
Something was amiss in the trading room at HTG Capital Partners. Namely, the market for U.S. Treasury bond futures seemed jinxed. Moments after traders confirmed a purchase, the price would suddenly fall, as hundreds of other supposed offers to buy disappeared...
The biggest European economy is expected to keep its growth in the first half of 2015 and continue to expand as strongly as at the end of 2014, Germany's central bank has stated...
(Bloomberg) -- Paris is famous as the home of philosophers, scientists and mathematicians. Today, thousands of students traipse through the city’s Left Bank on their way to classes at the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie and the Ecole Normale Superieure...
Quantitative Trading involves the use of computer algorithms and programs based on simple or complex mathematical models to identify and capitalize on available trading opportunities...
Gone are the days when algorithmic trading was the domain of high-frequency trading firms and Wall Street’s big banks. I Know First, a contestant for this year’s Benzinga Fintech Awards, is a company that is trying to bring the algorithmic trading experience to retail traders and investors...
The following are UBS' latest short-term (mostly intraday) trading strategies for EUR/USD, USD/JPY, and GBP/USD. EUR/USD: had another volatile session yesterday but has opened unchanged in Europe...
IBM is aiming at creating vast neural networks with a chip implementing one million neurons and 256 million programmable synapses. It is the biggest chip the firm has ever designed: 5...
On Wednesday, copper was seen declining as some investors sold to lock in recent gains. Nickel also fell after inventories hit an all-time peak, signalling a glut of metal...
Machine learning has made big advances in the past few years, thanks in no small part to new methods for scaling out compute-intensive workloads across more cores...
Today we are worshipping the gods of the algorithm, according to one prominent magazine. It’s not a bad comparison. Everything from search results to our machine learning efforts are the basis of a series of equations that purport to solve for something that feels almost ineffable, human...
It’s possible to count the number of major FPGA vendors on one hand, and despite a desire to differentiate, they are flocking together around some key areas where FPGA market growth seems most promising...
Lee Kuan Yew, 91, who passed away on Monday, was a towering figure for Singapore, presiding over the country's independence from Malaysia in 1965...
When we search Google’s web index, we are only searching around 10 percent of the half-a-trillion or so pages that are potentially available...
US DOLLAR TECHNICAL ANALYSIS Prices turned lower as expected, with a break of chart support pointing to further weakness ahead. A daily close below the 11854-78 area (March 2009 high, 14.6% Fibonacci expansion) exposes the 11679-737 region (February 26 low, 38.2% Fib retracement...
Resilient back propagation (Rprop), an algorithm that can be used to train a neural network, is similar to the more common (regular) back-propagation. But it has two main advantages over back propagation: First, training with Rprop is often faster than training with back propagation...
The euro touched session highs against the dollar on Wednesday after data showing German business confidence improved this month boosted the outlook for the euro area’s largest economy...
"Overnight action was mixed and indecisive across the board," said Nicholas Teo at CMC Markets in Singapore...
Gold declined and silver dropped on Wednesday after inflation data showed the world’s biggest economy keeps growing, driving prospects for an increase in US interest rates...
