Center for Innovative
Financial Technology
Resources
Student and Faculty
CIFT provides students with access to professional tools, and shared expertise in getting started to use them for trying “classic” quant strategies, and extending these as part of undergraduate, graduate, and professional education programs.
This includes both hosted applications at Haas, links to web applications of interest, and “glue” programs developed by CIFT affiliates that facilitate interesting combinations of these resources without requiring students to reinvent these each time.
Web Resources
- Financialsources.info is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by Internet expert, author, keynote speaker and consultant Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. for monitoring financial resources and sites on the Internet. offers an extensive list of financial information sources
- Advancedtrading.thewallstreetwiki.com hosts a job board for Traders, Quants and Trading Tech Experts
- FINVIZ.com offers the fastest and the most advanced stock screener available online, interactive markets maps, innovative market analysis and market intelligence solutions.
- Resources for understanding modern trading and market data systems
- Subscribe to Advanced Trading Newsletter for relevant news and job listings
General
Books
- Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street, Peter Bernstein
- Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk, Grinold and Kahn
- Introduction to Financial Technology, Freedman
Berkeley Student Investment Club
Data
- Wharton Research Data (Berkeley affiliation required)
- OpenTick - Free real-time and historical market data for trading systems and trading platforms
Simulators and Trading
- Marketocracy - Professional-level portfolio performance and attribution analysis.
- Hedgestreet - Mock trading account on new binary options exchange
- Interactive Brokers - Annual computer trading contest. $400K in prizes
Extended Search and Semantic Web Tools
- Yahoo Pipes - A powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web
- Reuters Calais - Automatically annotates your content with rich semantic metadata. API and web interfaces.
- Business Intelligence Network- A Very Concise Lesson on Text Analytics Basics
Visualization
- Omniscope Visualization Interactive data visualization tools
Natural Language
- Lingpipe - Natural language processing tools
- General Inquirer - Giant language system developed over 25 years.
Collective Intelligence
- Quantnet Discussion group at Baruch
- Programming Collective Intelligence Source Code - From Toby Segaran’s book
- CIFT's very own Group Discussion - Go sign up to join the collective
- Aleri Complex Event Processing - Powerful and robust complex event processing platform for Linux and Windows
- Streambase Reuters Edition - Provides Hedge Funds with highly productive and simplified tools to develop and deploy ideas in a fraction of the time of traditional development practices
