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.

Places are allocated on a suitability basis and are limited to 20 students. Please note this workshop is only for students enrolled at the University of Oxford.

Application deadline:

  • Sunday, 2nd November at 5pm  

Event date: 

  • Monday, 10th November, 6:00pm-8:00pm

Location:

  • L6, Oxford University Mathematical Institute, OX2 6GG

 

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