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Author: Jacky Wu
Jacky Wu is a senior FSI Solutions Architect at AWS with almost 20 years of experience in technology and capital markets. He developed automated trading and high-frequency trading systems for market making, equity long-short, statistics arbitrage, etc. Jacky holds the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification. Outside of work, Jacky maintains an active lifestyle through regular 10km runs.
How to Build and Backtest Systematic Trading Strategies with AWS Batch and Airflow
This is the second blog in our series on factor modeling. In our first factor modeling blog, we developed a framework to mine quickly new factors using Amazon Bedrock, AWS Batch, and Step Functions from alternative data. Read more about that approach. After discovering effective factors, the natural next step is to incorporate these factors […]
GenAI in Factor Modeling Data Pipelines: A Hedge Fund Workflow on AWS
Introduction Factor modeling in hedge funds is a quantitative approach that identifies and analyzes key drivers of asset returns. It lets fund managers to optimize portfolios, manage risk, and generate alpha by leveraging vast amounts of market data. This technique facilitates the development of sophisticated trading strategies, enhancing investment performance and providing a competitive edge […]