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Alket Memushaj

Author: Alket Memushaj

Alket Memushaj works as a Principal Architect in the Financial Services Market Development team at AWS. Alket is responsible for technical strategy for capital markets, working with partners and customers to deploy applications across the trade lifecycle to the AWS Cloud, including market connectivity, trading systems, and pre- and post-trade analytics and research platforms.

Scaling Backtesting for Algorithmic Trading with AWS and Coiled

Scaling Backtesting for Algorithmic Trading with AWS and Coiled

Backtesting plays a critical role in algorithmic trading. Firms leverage XGBoost for backtesting to build predictive models that forecast market movements based on historical data. Training XGBoost models is computationally expensive though, and can quickly become a bottleneck, especially when working with large historical datasets. This blog post shows how quantitative trading firms distribute XGBoost […]