Are you:

  • Curious how quantitative traders aim to deliver superior long-term investment performance?
  • A quantitative thinker with a deep interest in statistics, probability, and technology?
  • Intrigued by developing performant and insightful solutions to challenging modelling problems?
  • Keen to use logical reasoning and data to formulate and test hypotheses about the behaviour of financial markets?

What can you expect?

  • An open-ended, difficult to solve problem. Specifically, building an algorithmic trading strategy.
  • An accompanying mini-lecture where we candidly explain what quantitative trading really involves.
  • Advice and support from instructors with industry experience of developing trading strategies.
  • Prizes for the best performing strategies plus other goodies.
  • Food and drink.

We are limited to 20 places. Places are allocated on a suitability basis.

Application deadline:

  • 1 November 2024 at 5pm 

Where and when?

CAMBRIDGE, UK:

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 6:00pm-8:30pm

MR4, Centre of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Rd, Cambridge, CB3 0WA.

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