Quantitative Trading
Buy (No Affiliate Link) →Chan's first book focuses on getting started as a retail quantitative trader: finding and evaluating strategies, backtesting basics, and the business side of running an automated trading operation. More introductory than Algorithmic Trading but covers unique ground on the practicalities of setting up a quant trading business from home. The strategies are basic (pair trading, mean reversion) and the technology stack recommendations are dated. At $40 for 208 pages, value for money is questionable when free resources cover similar material. Best for programmers exploring whether quant trading is right for them.
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