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Five years ago this month, a quantum company rang the opening bell on a US exchange for the first time. That company was Arqit, a British quantum encryption firm briefly valued at close to $3 billion, now valued considerably less. Seven pure-play quantum computing companies have followed it onto American markets since, and between them they have produced a five-year record that deserves closer in…

Inside the $1 trillion repo market: SOFR transition, 56-to-1 Treasury basis trades, Fed standing facilities, and the 2019 and 2020 liquidity crises. 📊 Deep Research 🎥 Watch Video: https://youtu.be/D28mk_bOO4c Topics: quantitative finance, investment analysis, financial education, financial research, market analysis

I'm working with Kraken historical ETH-USD trade data from 2017 onward, which includes: Timestamp (Datetime) Trade ID Trade price Trade volume Taker side (buy/sell) Order type (market or marketable limit) My goal is to derive a fair (efficient) price series that's minimally affected by bid-ask bounce with the goal being to use it for execution backtesting and modeling/analysis. I am okay with dow…

From my reading I understand that: The Bitcoin Pi Cycle top indicator signals a top when: 111 day Simple Moving average > 350 day Simple Moving Average * 2 The Bitcoin Pi Cycle bottom indicator signals a bottom when: 150 day Exponential Moving Average <= .745 * 471 day Simple Moving Average The Bitcoin Pi Cycle bottom indicator then indicates the end of the bottoming zone when: 150 day Exponentia…

URBANA, Ill. — Meatingplace’s Tom Johnston reported that “the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday said it is expanding its investigation of record high beef prices to eight major grocery chains.“ “In a post on X, the DOJ’s Antitrust Division said Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward sent letters to Kroger, Walmart, Publix, Albertsons, Aldi, Ahold […] The post DOJ Expands Beef Price Inves…

Every exchange needs its market makers. Liquidity (which is the availability of quotes in order books) is the lifeblood of any sensible exchange, and thus the presence of these entities is both necessary and desirable. Market making, however, is not an easy game to play! Every quote that is placed runs the risk of getting picked off by someone both sharper and faster, and if you aren’t careful, t…

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Order-book imbalance looks simple. Count the bids. Count the asks. Compare them. If bids are much larger than asks, the market looks bullish. If asks are much larger than bids, the market looks bearish. But building a Polymarket bot around that assumption can be a serious mistake. A large imbalance does not automatically mean the price will move. Orders can disappear. New liquidity can arrive. Tr…

Before I start: Ok, this is something I investigated for a fair amount of time and my question is semi-academic. To simplify, I will introduce the short bit (TLDR) of my question and then lay out specifics. Short Question : What happens when option pricing model estimate and market price disagree? What is the course of action? What happens to the difference when I take positions on option and del…

Governments should examine whether major decisions to procure and adopt frontier technologies could restrict future competition, argue 2 academics at Cambridge Judge Business School writing in the leading journal Nature. They propose a contestability check to help public agencies reward strong performance today without closing credible routes for later suppliers. The post Governments urged to kee…

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The competition watchdog raised concerns in its latest update over ‘passive pricing strategies’ used by the majority of retailers.

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The share of Treasury repo centrally cleared increased during 2025, reaching 71% by year-end, before stabilizing to 62% during Q1 2026.

A surge in stock markets towards year end goes against the idea of rational traders, yet it often happens.

Petrochemicals derived from oil and fossil fuels underlie the production of many consumer goods − and many you wouldn’t know from looking at the final product.

Market Intelligence Startup Innovation Radar: A real-time startup database Discover, track and compare startups in any industry Jay Feyerabend on Nov 06, 2025 15-Second summary Monitoring all emerging startups in your industry is vital, but current methodologies have flaws. Organic discovery is time-consuming and incomplete, while paid databases provide outdated metrics and rigid search options, …

Market Intelligence Turn press releases into competitive signals Feedly supports over 4,000 company press release sources so you can surface competitive signals faster Jay Feyerabend on Jun 10, 2025 15 Second-summary Manually tracking press releases across thousands of scattered sources is time-consuming, error-prone, and nearly impossible to scale until now. Feedly now supports thousands of comp…

Bitcoin’s rebound toward $69,000 is gaining momentum as Geoff Kendrick points to improving liquidity conditions and a potential cycle bottom.

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