Buy Side Trade Desks Budgets Finally Increase, But Robots Taking Human Bonuses

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Mark Melin
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The professional trading community has reached an “equilibrium,” at least for now. According to a recent Greenwich Associates first quarter investor spending report, buy-side trading room budgets are, likewise, finding their center and have up-ticked slightly. But while spending has moved higher, how that money is being spent is changing, which human bonus pools are receiving less of the pie.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.