Modeling Equities Returns: The Linear Case
Introduction Having an accurate high-level overview of market dynamics is crucial in algorithmic trading. At HRT, many trading teams curate their own models to understand risk and performance profiles of […]
Optimizing UX/UI Design for Trading at HRT
It might seem counterintuitive for a trading firm with a heavy emphasis on automation to spend resources on user interfaces; however, UX/UI can have a large impact on even fully […]
Intern Spotlight: 2022 HRT AI Labs Summer Projects
HAIL (HRT AI Labs) was lucky to host several talented Algo Developer interns during the HRT 2022 Algo Summer Internship program. These interns tackled the topic of “artificial intelligence in […]
Low Latency Optimization: Using Huge Pages on Linux (Part 2)
Welcome to the second part of our series on improving latency through the use of huge pages! While the first installment was focused on potential hardware benefits, this post will […]
Low Latency Optimization: Understanding Huge Pages (Part 1)
Latency is often a crucial factor in algorithmic trading. At HRT, a lot of effort goes into minimizing the latency of our trading stack. Low latency optimizations can be arcane, […]
Intern Spotlight: 2022 Software Engineering Projects
Summer is intern season at HRT; within a few short months, our interns are truly woven into the fabric of HRT’s culture, adding vibrancy and enthusiasm to our offices around […]
A Campus Career Fair Led This Software Developer to a New Life in NYC
As a California native and aspiring software developer, Jenna MacCarley always thought she’d work in Silicon Valley—but meeting with an HRT campus recruiter at a career fair convinced her a […]
The Communication Habits That Help HRT’s Engineering Teams Thrive
Today we’re sitting down with Taylor Legg, who leads our Systems Dev team at HRT. As the manager of a distributed international team, she considers good communication especially important. Read […]
In Trading, Machine Learning Benchmarks Don’t Track What You Care About
Doing good work at HRT means constantly learning and improving. As part of that ongoing education, many people at HRT follow academic research – whether to keep up with the […]
Scalable Ethereum Reads
In this post, Wintern Hao Wang describes his main project, which yielded order-of-magnitude speed improvements in Ethereum data ingestion on our DeFi research platform. Introduction Before starting my work as […]
How to Prepare for Your Software Engineer Interview at HRT
An Introduction to SmallGrid
Applying Artificial Intelligence to Trading
Scaling Prometheus to Billions of Samples a Second
