Trends, Insights and Innovation

Every feature at BHFT, without seeing anyone's code

How BHFT's Feature Store lets researchers build on each other's work – and what had to be solved to make that possible

A quant with their own book: a story of a trading team at BHFT

Why one BHFT team gives every quant a book, and how cheaper testing made it possible.

A Mindset That Launches Satellites: The people side of a proprietary trading firm

Inside BHFT’s mindset: how a proprietary trading firm blends independent signals and gives its people ownership instead of career ladders.

The backtest ends in 2024: An MFT trader’s perspective

Long price histories have stopped being an asset. For a medium-frequency strategy, the evidence that counts comes from trading small size in production and from a simulator calibrated against it.

Management Office, or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Metrics

AI didn’t change our mindset about metrics. It made checking one cost five minutes instead of a week. That’s how we stopped worrying and learned to love them.

The one-person team: how BHFT hires the ultimate LLM engineer

Part team lead, part engineer: a role the market has no standard name for yet. How it works day to day, how we interview for it and what we expect in the first three months.