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Quantitative Finance StackExchange Proposal
- copernicus 16y agoTo be blunt, if someone knew of some advantage that was not generally known, why would they post about it online, instead of exploiting it themselves?
- T_S_ 16y agoQF is no different than other areas of engineering, like programming, where there is some exchange of information about methods between professionals. You can exchange a lot of information without revealing a specific trading strategy. Also there are usually auditors and risk managers that need to understand what is going on in a position and QF provides a language to describe the reasoning behind why a trader has a certain position.
- chollida1 16y agoI don't know about that. I read and discuss algorithms in the Wilmott forum. http://www.wilmott.com/index.cfm http://www.wilmott.com/index.cfm There is actually alot of useful traffic that goes on there. Having said that, the Wilmott forum acts more like mathoverflow than stackoverflow in it's non tolerance for basic questions.
- caffeine 16y agoThe majority of the questions on that first page of proposals have nothing to do with Quantitative finance. Moderating such a forum would be a nightmare. Perhaps this indicates a market for a separate "Hokey-pokey finance" StackExchange ...
- francoisdevlin 16y agoLaughingStockExchange?
- mhp 16y agoAre you looking at the "newest" questions? or the off-topic questions?
- dpritchett 16y agoMost of the samples are voted up as "great off-topic example" so I think we don't have too much to worry about. Presumably those won't be upvoted on a real site.
- djb_hackernews 16y agolooking at the on topic questions it seems more like a general QF FAQ than a specific Q and A type place.
- clammer 16y agoHaving worked in this area and been frustrated by the lack of an online knowledge base, I can assure you this is a terrible idea. Come to find out there is a very good reason there is no info online about tools, methods, and tricks. Unlike other areas, the quant space is all about secrecy and not helping your competitor, in any way. In fact, I suppose more misinformation would be given then actually helpful advice.