Every stock behaviour pattern has parameters. A compression breakout depends on the rolling window. A VWAP reclaim depends on the volume threshold. A failed breakout depends on the forecast horizon. Change one number and a "profitable" pattern becomes noise. The typical workflow: tweak a parameter → rerun → query results → squint at a table … Continue reading QuantFlow: Brute-Force Grid Search for Stock Behaviour Patterns
Category: *Financial Data Engineering
QuantFlow: Detecting Trading Opportunities Through Market Lead-Lag Profiling
Context: Some trading ideas often pop into my mind unexpectedly, but most of the time I am too lazy to investigate them further. The root cause of this "laziness" is not the effort required to explore the idea itself, but rather the amount of pre-work needed before I can actually start working on it. Collecting … Continue reading QuantFlow: Detecting Trading Opportunities Through Market Lead-Lag Profiling
S3 + Parquet + Iceberg + Trino: A Poor Man’s Market Data Platform
Before I start talking about how effective this architecture can be at reducing infrastructure costs, I should first make the old point that there is really no free lunch. Compared with commercial cloud data platforms and warehouses such as Databricks, BigQuery, and Snowflake, an open lakehouse setup requires significantly more engineering effort to build, operate, … Continue reading S3 + Parquet + Iceberg + Trino: A Poor Man’s Market Data Platform
QuantFlow Fun – Build a Low-Latency Feature Monitor Dashboard
One of the reasons — actually, the core reason — I chose DolphinDB as the built-in streaming engine for QuantFlow's streaming execution layer is that it's really fast, even for the kind of complicated computation that requires chained steps. Thanks to that speed, and with QuantFlow's MarketState engine and FeatureDAG compiler on top, we can … Continue reading QuantFlow Fun – Build a Low-Latency Feature Monitor Dashboard
Buy-Side Financial Data Engineering (3) – Market Data Management
Buy-Side Financial Data Engineering (1) - Overview Buy-Side Financial Data Engineering (2) - Financial Instruments Buy-Side Financial Data Engineering (3) - Market Data Management As a data guy, two thoughts immediately come to my mind when I hear the term "Finance Market Data", 1) They are bloody expensive; 2) What a chore to handle all … Continue reading Buy-Side Financial Data Engineering (3) – Market Data Management
Buy-Side Financial Data Models (2) – Financial Instruments
Buy-Side Financial Data Engineering (1) - Overview Buy-Side Financial Data Engineering (2) - Financial Instruments Buy-Side Financial Data Engineering (3) – Market Data Management The second article of my "Buy-Side Financial Data Models" focuses on the "Financial Instruments" data domain. Financial instruments data is complex and difficult to manage. In the meantime, it is crucial to … Continue reading Buy-Side Financial Data Models (2) – Financial Instruments
Buy-Side Financial Data Models (1) – Overview
Buy-Side Financial Data Engineering (1) - Overview Buy-Side Financial Data Engineering (2) - Financial Instruments Buy-Side Financial Data Engineering (3) – Market Data Management This is the first blog post of the "Buy-Side Financial Data Models" series I am planning to write. To kick off this blog series, this post provides a high-level overview of the … Continue reading Buy-Side Financial Data Models (1) – Overview







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