What are the most popular trading strategies?

[schizo]

What are the most popular trading strategies, especially by the HFT/Quants? I can only think of 4: Front-running or spoofing (obviously ), arbitrage, trend-following and mean-reversion. Anything else?

 

[rallymode]

vol replication

 

[trend2009]

vol replication

what is that?

 

[trend2009]

What are the most popular trading strategies, especially by the HFT/Quants? I can only think of 4: Front-running or spoofing (obviously ), arbitrage, trend-following and mean-reversion. Anything else?

i can not think of anything else either.

 

[tomorton]

How successful are HFT/Quants?

We know that EU brokers have only about 20-25% winning private retail clients. Amongst private retail traders it always seems to me that trend-following is the least popular trading strategy.

 

[Baron]

Order book depth analysis for sure.

 

[BlueWaterSailor]

Order book depth analysis for sure.

Baron, do you use anything like Bookmap? That seems to be the basic idea behind it, and I'm getting pretty interested in it.

 

[Baron]

Baron, do you use anything like Bookmap?

I have to maintain a neutral position here at ET since we have so many sponsors that offer competing software with similar features, so I don't comment on what I specifically use. But generally speaking, I would never even bother with intraday trading if I had no insight whatsoever into order book depth.

 

[globalarbtrader]

What are the most popular trading strategies, especially by the HFT/Quants? I can only think of 4: Front-running or spoofing (obviously ), arbitrage, trend-following and mean-reversion. Anything else?

Carry
Value and momentum factors
BAB
Stat arb


Read the Illmanen and Pedersen books. Highly recommended.

GAT

 

[trend2009]

Carry
Value and momentum factors
BAB
Stat arb


Read the Illmanen and Pedersen books. Highly recommended.

GAT

which book?