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Interview with Sarah Leonard, STEM Woman and Data Scientist
Blog“It’s exciting to see the growing number of women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM); my advice is to not be afraid to jump in headfirst,” said Sarah Leonard, graduate student at the University of Chicago. “It is a difficult field but also lucrative and rapidly growing.”
Leonard sat down with CloudQuant to talk about her experiences in data science, her insight as a female in a male dominated world, and the intensive process it took to find her dream job.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) STAC Conference Summary
CloudQuant Press, Industry NewsModerated by Jessica Titlebaum Darmoni from the Title Connection, Slade was joined by Brian Peterson, Algorithmic Trading Lead at DV Trading, Inderdeep Singh from CME Group’s Innovation Lab and Matthew Dixon, Assistant Professor of Finance and Statistics at Illinois Institute of Technology.

Backtesting Trading Strategies
BlogIf you knew your trading strategy would work 50% of the time, would you commit your scarce savings to trade it? What if it worked 75% of the time? Backtesting gives one the confidence to know that your trading strategy will work.

Industry News: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for January 8, 2018
Industry NewsCloudQuant Thoughts: 80% of trading is being handled by robots? We know that 100% of trades are touched by automation these days. If it isn't in the actual order processing then it is in the clearing process, the risk process, or the account management process. When someone using a retail broker's website sees their portfolio there is added information that is presented. Almost all of that is touched by automation with some form of a "robot" or AI process.

Is Crowdsourced Data Reliable?
CloudQuant Press, Industry News"Bring us your ideas and we will share the money with you,” agreed Morgan Slade, CEO of the crowdsourced algorithmic trading startup CloudQuant. “For us, engagement means breaking it down into a contractible problem."

Futures Radio Show interviews Morgan Slade December 12, 2017
CloudQuant Press, Industry NewsCloudQuant's CEO was interviewed by Anthony Crudele of Futures Radios show to discuss topic including Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning applied to algorithmic trading. Alternative datasets are a major topic of discussion. People are saying that data is being created faster than ever before. That really isn't true. What is really happening is that data is being captured and stored at a faster rate than ever before. Vendors are now making AltData available for traders to change the way that they interact with the markets. This applies to futures and stocks with the popularity of Deep Learning in algorithmic trading strategy development.

Industry News: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for December 18, 2017
Industry NewsCloudQuant Thoughts: We really like the following quote in this article: “A huge part of financial services built technology in-house or used a small number of vendors and that old model is dying,” Whitcroft added. ‘Financial services is being componentisized.” This gets to the heart of new business models that include innovation and crowdsourcing. We have found that innovators, with atypical backgrounds and education, when given access to institutional grade tools and datasets can create something unique. There is significant value that can be derived. Our business model is proving this out daily.

Industry News: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for December 11, 2017
Industry NewsAI & ML news covering Hedge Funds, Career, Fraud Detection, Vineyards/Winemaking, Quanthouse, Apple, Quantitative Brokers, and more

Industry News: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for December 4, 2017
Industry NewsGrace: Going back to what you are doing now with CloudQuant, I understand that you have a trading strategy incubator where your team has the experience, the technology, the capital and allows algo traders to essentially get a strategy funded. Can you tell us more about that and the vision behind it?

QuantNews Interview with CEO Morgan Slade
CloudQuant Press, Industry NewsWith over 20 years of experience as a trader, portfolio manager, executive, and entrepreneur, Morgan Slade is now the CEO of CloudQuant, a cloud based quantitative strategy incubator and systematic investment fund. He has built quantitative trading businesses at some of the world’s largest hedge funds and Investment Banks ...