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Saeed Amen

Thalesians

Saeed Amen is a Managing Director and a Co-founder at Thalesians Ltd, currently publishing ground-breaking quant strategy notes, drawing upon nearly a decade of experience both creating and running systematic trading models successfully with real cash. Independently, he is also a systematic FX trader, running a proprietary trading book trading liquid G10 FX. He has recently authored the book “Trading Thalesians – What the ancient world can teach us about trading today”.

Saeed started his career at Lehman Brothers working on the FX desk developing systematic trading models for both G10 and EM and was part of the team who developed the MarQCuS suite of models. He graduated from Imperial College with a first class honours master’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science.

STA Monthly Meeting – January 2015 Trading Thalesians – What the ancient world can teach us about trading

During his talk Saeed will focus on what the ancient world can teach us about modern money markets. How can we use examples from the ancient world, philosophers and writers to better understand the markets? Just as historians such as Herodotus living in ancient Greece examined the past, can traders look to their past to learn something new? Based on the rationale that if your primary objective is purely to make money from trading quickly, you can make decisions that perversely increase the likelihood of losing; Saeed will examine how successful trading can actually be achieved as a by-product of good trading. Relating concepts from the ancient world, such as water and risk, diversified knowledge, Herodotus and historical bias to the modern world money markets, Saeed demonstrates that by focusing on goals that go beyond making money, lateral thinking, targeting risk adjusted returns, and keeping drawdowns in check, investors will indirectly make more money in the long run.

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