In high-frequency trading data, noise isn't the problem. Assumptions are.

Lambda recently teamed with Hudson River Trading (HRT) , one of the most respected quantitative trading firms in the world, to power their trading research and development on Lambda Cloud. It’s a deal that reflects something we’ve been seeing more broadly: access to compute is a necessary condition for frontier quantitative research, but it’s not sufficient. The firms doing the most ambitious work are running into a separate, harder problem in how they prepare and understand their data.