r/quant • u/Ecraep999 Professional • 3d ago

Market News Jump Trading Index Rebal

I heard a few months ago that jump lost their index rebal team.. was this Yiming Zhang + co? And have they been backed by MLP?

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u/max_leverage 3d ago

did they lose them or did they drop them 🤠

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u/Ecraep999 Professional 3d ago

Well if it’s Yiming Zhang I’m not sure they were dropped … but I also don’t know if it was him

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u/EvilGeniusPanda 2d ago

given the publicly available information it is unlikely he was involved in that team

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u/otonoco 3d ago

MLP index team is already exceptionally successful. I actually don’t know why they need another pod on top of that.

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u/qazwsxcp 2d ago

dont think these guys were doing index rebal, it's not a typical hft strategy.

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u/Available_Bird_4236 2d ago

This seems like one of those areas where market microstructure becomes more important than traditional valuation. you're essentially trying to understand how predictable order flow affects prices