Creative vs Analytical Innovation

The traders/investors/strategists I have as clients are mostly in futures or options across all asset classes. They could be high frequency traders, institutional traders or anything in between. Some are seeking hedging solutions, pure speculation strats, or horizontal scaling ideas. Others are exploring microstructure features for improving execution algos. A few are vetting new businesses with Pallino’s assistance, prior to a fund raise. Regardless of background, a shared trait among them is highly functional creativity.

The best work Pallino does involves layering technical and disciplined explorations atop clients’ creative discoveries. The dance between disciplined research and creative thinking is a must for improvement. It’s about combining multiple bodies of wisdom to derive usable realistic conclusions. 

To give an example of how this happens, a client will come to us with an idea and we will then begin researching. Part way through this work I will share some initial conclusions with my client. Quite often, having the ammo of factual results will fuel the client’s ideation process, enabling better creativity. Then edited ideas are presented back to us. When the research improves the creative process and the creativity fuels quant research, we know good things will come.

These two different approaches are sometimes referred to as right-brained (creative) and left-brained (analytical) value-adds. I pride myself on being able to walk the line between them to discover better versions of innovations. Bridging this gap was how I spent the lion’s share of my energy when working in prop trading firms and it’s in my nature to do this. At its core, bridging this gap is the offering of Pallino. 

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