Projects

Session 6 Quiz

This quiz will count towards your individual participation grade. Ensure you have completed all mandatory readings before starting the quiz (they will be tested). Only entries submitted prior to the beginning of next class will be accepted. Please note that these quizzes are being assessed on a participation basis only; full marks will be given to those that complete the quiz (scores will not affect the participation grade).

Session 8 Quiz

This quiz will count towards your individual participation grade. Ensure you have completed all mandatory readings before starting the quiz (they will be tested). Only entries submitted prior to the beginning of next class will be accepted. Please note that these quizzes are being assessed on a participation basis only; full marks will be given to those that complete the quiz (scores will not affect the participation grade).

Session 9 Quiz

This quiz will count towards your individual participation grade. Ensure you have completed all mandatory readings before starting the quiz (they will be tested). Only entries submitted prior to the beginning of next class will be accepted. Please note that these quizzes are being assessed on a participation basis only; full marks will be given to those that complete the quiz (scores will not affect the participation grade).

Paying for Speed- Are Traders Wasting Money?

For a price, high-speed traders can plug into a stock market’s backbone. Unfair advantage or fair exchange? Mar 8, 2016, Anna Sharratt

Robot Auction Bidders Are Such Buzzkills

Competing against automated agents induces auction bidders to skip risky behaviour. Oct 21, 2015, Kenza Moller

Making Sense of the Fast — and the Furious

Is high-frequency trading the most evil finance scheme ever conceived? Ryan Riordan crunches some hard-to-access data and comes away with a reassuring tale. Sep 23, 2014, Anna Sharratt

Money & Speed- Inside the Black Box (Optional)

Optional (long, but worth watching if you have time) - Based on interviews with those directly involved and data visualizations up to the millisecond, it reconstructs the flash crash of May 6th 2010.Dec 13, 2012, VPRO