Daniel Aisen (@dcaisen) profile picture

CEO @prooftrading; previously co-founder/quant @iex

Joined May 2009
📈 Nothing better than catching up IRL with our portfolio founders. The brilliant team @prooftrading, led by @TheAlliBishop @dcaisen, are building a new institutional equities platform, closing the gap between market principles & the trading experience of long term investors. – at Manhattan, NY
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⚡️ We're proud to have led the round in @prooftrading to help bring more transparency in trading. Here's a great profile on @TheAlliBishop, the talented co-founder of Proof!
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In honor of women's history month, I made this comedy sketch to celebrate the true heros: youtube.com/watch?v=BXcdQsIz…
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We've published our design for transaction cost analyses (TCA) as well as some limited preliminary results for our algos: medium.com/p/ba6253d951da
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We have a new blog post about gender diversity in finance: medium.com/prooftrading/chan… Because maybe we should talk about this more frequently than just on international women's day?
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"Doesn't US Equities trading require extremely low latencies to the exchanges?" Check out our latest piece that attempts to dismantle the widely held belief that agency brokers trading US Equities need ultra-low latency. @prooftrading medium.com/prooftrading/trad…
The general attitude on Wall Street is that the middlemen — namely, exchanges and brokers — own all the trading data. We at @prooftrading think that is unfair and broken, so we are relinquishing control and ownership of our trading data back to our clients medium.com/prooftrading/trad…
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"Is it really possible to run a US Equities trading system in the cloud?", that is a question we get a lot at @prooftrading. Below, we discuss the technical considerations for why this is, in fact, feasible. FPGAs and microwaves need not apply. medium.com/prooftrading/buil…
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FIX protocol is the de facto language of electronic trading systems. For everything you wanted to know about FIX, but never dared to ask, read on! Also includes how we modified the open-source QuickFIX/J library for our algo trading system. @prooftrading medium.com/prooftrading/proo…
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In our next installment of "too much information that no one asked for", we go deeper and talk about the technical details of the message bus that powers @prooftrading's algo trading system in the cloud (this one is for the 4 of you that did ask for this) medium.com/prooftrading/proo…
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How do you build an institutional-grade algo trading platform from scratch in the cloud? Very carefully, that's how, because it can get pretty complex! We break down two years of work below. @prooftrading @AWSstartups @ExegyMarketData @datadoghq @ag_grid medium.com/prooftrading/proo…
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