My name is Alex Raita and I am currently an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto studying Mathematical Finance and Computer Science. I’m interested in pursuing a career as a Quant where I can put both my mathematics and computer science skills to work. I’ve been interested in developing trading strategies for a few years, but have put it off while I worked on developing the Alera Portfolio Manager, which is a trading platform that is perfect for automating the kinds of strategies that will be discussed in this blog.

This blog will mainly focus on coming up with and modelling ideas for stock trading. Most code featured here will be in Python (and maybe some R) since there are an abundance of great libraries for strategy development and analysis.