Quantitative Trading
by Ernest P. Chan · Ernest P. Chan
Practical guide to running a small quantitative trading operation alone: finding strategy ideas, backtesting them without fooling yourself, choosing brokers and execution software, and sizing positions. Stresses avoiding data-snooping and survivorship bias in historical tests.
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