A speaker with a long finance/accounting background describes transitioning to algorithmic trading after encountering AI advances and discussions with Nick Costa. They were persuaded by the mathematical theory underpinning algorithmic trading and view math as a reliable guide. The clip emphasizes career shift, inspiration, and confidence in quantitative methods.
I worked in finance for a long period of time. I was actually an accountant, so I was working with a lot of investments. And as technologies improved, I saw there were massive opportunities to harness the power of things like AI. And I started to look into these things. And that's when I came across from Nick Costa, and I started talking to him about the potential for algorithmic trading. And then when I saw the theory, I thought, this has got some future in it. This has got some potential to move forward. And once I started looking at the mathematics of things, I was sold. Maths never lies, and that was my way of doing things.
