Is Renaissance Attempting To Patent Existing HFT Trade Execution Methods?

07JulJuly 7, 2016

Is Renaissance Attempting To Patent Existing HFT Trade Execution Methods?

Renaissance Technologies, the $32 billion algorithmic hedge fund, has applied to patent on a high frequency trading execution methodology, raising a thorny issue. Will a patent on breathing air follow?

Renaissance appears to piece together various processes in a unique . . .

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Mark Melin

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.

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