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Caml Trading

Yaron Minsky · 54.8K views · 2012-05-05 · 1:12:43

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Overview

Yaron Minsky explains how Jane Street moved from mainstream languages to developing almost entirely in OCaml. He covers trading systems, research infrastructure, tooling and hiring.

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Cited as evidence for OCaml's readability benefits and for hiring in less popular languages.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2013–2018

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gnuvince · 2013-09 · Recommendation

People who are nervous about hiring people in a relatively unpopular language should watch this video[1] at the 1:01.00 mark by Yaron Minsky. [1] [VIDEO]

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bufferoverflow · 2018-02 · Reference

That's just not true. There are whole companies based on algorithmic trading. Jane Street, for instance, has a tech talk on how they take advantage of Caml in automated trading. [VIDEO]

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imaginenore · 2016-12 · Reference

You most certainly can, just not with such naïve approach. Jane Street is a company that does it, and they are quite open about their tech approach (just not about their specific models): [VIDEO] Jane Street went from zero to trading $1 trillion in volume in just 15 years.

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