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In trading, your model is part of the system it's trying to predict.
Denis Perevalov, Quantitative Researcher, shares what makes ML in trading an interesting research problem. Read more ⤵️ bit.ly/4yURFls
Financial markets don’t give production systems controlled conditions. A sudden market event can increase the demand on our systems, the urgency and the cost of getting something wrong.
As Michael McAllister, Application Engineer at Optiver, puts it: “The question isn't whether you can solve problems for the people a couple of desks from you. It's whether you can solve it once and make it work across regions.”
We’re at @SREcon this week. Come talk to us about the systems behind live trading. More on technology at Optiver: optiver.com/what-we-do/techn…
The same share, traded on different European exchanges. How different can the prices be?
That's the subject of our final chart for the @FTAlphaville Art of the Chart show, happening this Thursday, 15 October in London.
In theory, the same share trading on different exchanges should have the same price. In practice, that’s not always the case.
This chart looks at the gaps between official closing prices for some of Europe’s biggest cross-listed stocks. While the differences are typically small, they can be surprisingly large, even for some of the continent’s most liquid names.
Click here for the interactive version: public.flourish.studio/visua…
Tickets for Art of the Chart are sold out, but there will be a limited number available at the door.
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We’re heading to #AIEngineer NYC to join engineers building and operating AI in production.
On Tuesday, Noyan Tokgozoglu shares what scaling AI looks like at Optiver, where performance and reliability have real consequences.
Scaling AI with P&L on the Line
Oct. 13 | 2:55 - 3:15 p.m. | NY Ballroom East
Then, join us for drinks, bites and a game of hidden connections, with more than bragging rights on the line.
Stop by Stand #25 to register.
#Optiver #AIEngineerNYC @aiDotEngineer
Market data is noisy, event-based and constantly changing. Quantitative Researcher Karun Rao explains why it is difficult to model and where deep learning can help. Read the blog ⬇️ bit.ly/4hMbLHk
We’re sponsoring the @FTAlphaville Art of the Chart in London on 15 October.
In the run-up, we’re putting together a series of charts for the Alphaville substack on some of the market themes we spend a lot of time thinking about.
This week: #silver.
For one extraordinary week earlier this year, trading in the iShares Silver Trust ETF ($SLV) surged to levels that briefly put it in the same conversation as Nvidia.
The spike was short-lived, but it served as a striking example of how quickly volumes can rise in a market when a big macro story takes hold.
Reserved tickets are sold out but a limited number will be available on the door: ft.com/content/ca7bee53-270c…
Most AI competitions start with a test set where the answers already exist.
Explaining Markets evaluates agents on earnings announcements as they happen, before we know how the market will react.
Sign up by October 11 to build an agent that responds to each new event and gets scored once the market moves. Starter resources are available at explainingmarkets.ai
We’re sponsoring the @FTAlphaville Art of the Chart in London on 15 October.
In the run-up, we’re putting together a series of charts for the Alphaville substack on some of the market themes we spend a lot of time thinking about.
This week: Europe’s tech sector.
$ASML’s market cap is now larger than the next 10 biggest EEA-domiciled tech companies combined.
That says a lot about ASML’s extraordinary rise. It also says something about the shape of Europe’s listed tech sector, where a huge amount of value is concentrated in one company.
Reserved tickets for the show are sold out but a limited number will be available on the door: ft.com/content/ca7bee53-270c…
We’ve been marking Optiver’s 40th at exchanges around the world.
This week, the celebrations reached New York, with our team joining Nasdaq for an opening bell viewing in Times Square. New York is home to a growing part of our business, including our #ETF and #credit trading teams and our #AI Lab.
It was a fitting place to celebrate four decades in markets, and the growth of Optiver along the way.
Thanks to @Nasdaq for having us.
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💹 Stock exchanges are changing fast. NYSE is building a tokenized securities platform, Nasdaq got SEC approval to trade some, and London plans 24/7 trading.
Hear from leaders at @Broadridge, @NPM, and @OptiverGlobal tomorrow at the #FMQ2026, joined by @timmassad.
We’re sponsoring the @FTAlphaville Art of the Chart in London on 15 October.
In the run-up, we’re putting together a series of #charts for Alphaville's substack on some of the market themes we spend a lot of time thinking about.
First up: #0DTE.
In the US, zero-day-to-expiry #options have gone from niche to more than 60% of S&P 500 index options volume in roughly a decade. Europe looks tiny by comparison. But there’s an important caveat: it only got started in 2023. So the question may be less “why is Europe so far behind?” and more "how quickly does it grow from here?’”
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FT Alphaville’s Art of the Chart show returns 15 October. Tickets are £5, get them here ft.trib.al/ur5vDWA
There’s a lot of engineering between writing C++ and running it in production.
Optiver is sponsoring the #CppCon Tooling & Ecosystem Track, covering build graph bottlenecks, compiler parallelization, CUDA profiling, CI performance regression and more.
C++ is a core part of the Optiver production stack. Our engineers work to build systems for live markets, large-scale data platforms, quantitative research and ML. With around 28,000 application instances and 800+ production changes every day, our C++ tooling needs to move fast too.
Find us at Booth 10 to meet the team and learn more about engineering at Optiver.
#Cpp #CPlusPlus #SoftwareEngineering #PerformanceEngineering
Accelerated computing is changing how engineers think about research, performance and live trading systems. At a recent fireside chat with @nvidia, we explored how those changes are showing up in the systems our engineers build.
Read more from the conversation ⬇️ bit.ly/4xcwmuM
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The IIT Bombay–Optiver AI Innovation Lab has been inaugurated, marking the beginning of a long-term partnership between @IITBombay and @OptiverGlobal.
The Lab will strengthen IIT Bombay's AI ecosystem by supporting faculty and researchers, enabling interdisciplinary collaboration, and fostering deeper engagement between academia and industry.
#IITBombay #Optiver #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning
Today we announced an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Northpool, a European energy trading firm specialising in short-term power and gas markets.
As energy markets become more complex, the combination of Northpool’s deep market expertise with Optiver’s technology, quantitative capabilities and risk management experience creates a strong platform for growth.
Our ambition is clear: to build a major global energy trading business and help make energy markets more liquid, efficient and resilient.
Read more here: optiver.com/insights/news/ma…
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Optiver has agreed to buy a majority stake in Northpool to expand in power and gas markets bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
