Wrestling the World Into Rows with Eric Mannes - YouTube

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"Alternative data" is Wall Street’s name for information that comes from non-traditional sources: satellite photos of parking lots, credit card panels, weather forecasts. Eric Mannes has spent over a decade at Jane Street, first as a commodities trader and now helping lead the firm's alternative data team. In this episode, Eric and Ron talk about what it takes to turn messy external data into datasets a trading strategy can rely on. Along the way, they cover the day oil futures settled at a negative price and the systems that broke as a result; the years when the commodities desk's risk…

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