Trends: All Finance Will Soon Be Big Data Finance
Just 10 years ago, finance was a small-data discipline. The small-data approach was partly due to the actual lack of data. To most investors, exchanges offered only four prices per stock per day: Open, High, Low and Close, and all of those were reported the following day (on the T+1 basis). Even the largest market makers did not store intraday data beyond what was mandated by regulators. Commodity trading floors, for instance, had only 21 days of history on hand until approximately five years ago. Finance Ph.D. programs almost exclusively taught analysis of closing prices, mentioning intraday variations only in passing. Today, real-time streaming dataRead More →