April 2021 Newsletter
Word from the Director
Dr. Ionut Florescu, Director of Hanlon Labs, shares updates for April 2021 with fellow students and colleagues.
Refinitiv Machine Readable News
Refinitiv Real-time News is the only structured textual news service for programmatic use that is powered by Reuters News. Reuters is the largest international news agency with more journalists in more countries than anyone else. Reuters has a long history of market-moving beats and exclusives related to macroeconomics, M&A activity, CEO changes or corporate wrongdoing. Hanlon lab provides students with access to Refinitiv MRN data which can be used for research and for class projects.
Stevens students accepted to attend the National Conference of Undergraduate Research through their innovative research efforts
Stevens students Eden Luvishis, Bharddwaj Vemulapalli, Joshua Ronai, and Patrick Walther were recently accepted to attend the National Conference of Undergraduate Research through their innovative research efforts this past summer, working under Dr. Ionut Florescu. Their project, titled Financial Time Series Generation using Generative Adversarial Networks, provides a new way of modeling stock data.
Stevens Capco Algo Trading Competition
We are hosting the Stevens Capco Algo Trading Competition (SCATC) currently, and it started in March of this year. This has been the third year we've hosted this competition. We have 14 teams admitted this year and they come from different departments at Stevens (Financial Engineering, Quantitative Finance, Computer Science, Data Science, Finance, etc.) and both graduate and undergraduate students. In this competition, each team will develop and validate their quantitative strategy in SHIFT system, which is a realistic market replaying system. All the strategies are algorithmic and no human effort is involved during trading. Their algorithm is competing in one simulated market against each other and historical orders. We have 5 events with different themes this year, which involves different market scenario and even trading in market that is simulated by bot agents. A cash prize will be awarded to the top 3 teams. The competition is going to end in early May after 5 sessions. Stay tuned for results!
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