Trading Thalesians: What the Ancient World Can Teach Us About Trading Today

About S. Amen

Saeed Amen is Managing Director and co-founder of The Thalesians a think tank of dedicated professionals with an interest in quantitative finance economics mathematics physics and computer science. In this role Saeed publishes FX and gold quant strategy drawing upon nearly a decade of experience creating and running FX trading models. Independently he is also a systematic FX prop trader. Prior to this Saeed was an Executive Director and FX Quant Strategist at Nomura London where he built up a number of systematic FX spot and volatility trading models both for clients and the trading desk which were run profitably with prop capital. He also prepared a large body of quant FX strategy notes in areas such as high frequency macro technical analysis positioning liquidity hedging and options. Saeed began his career at Lehman Brothers London as an Analyst and Quant Strategist in Foreign Exchange following completion of a Master's degree (MSci) in Mathematics and Computer Science at Imperial College University of London. Saeed is quoted regularly by the FT WSJ and ZeroHedge.