Quant Workshop GSA x AlgoSoc

GSA
London, England, United Kingdom
Posted
On-site
Entry-level
Job Description

Only eligible for members of the Algorithmic Trading Society at Imperial.

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.
  • A price for the best performing strategy.

Places are allocated on a suitability basis and are limited to 30 students. Please note this workshop is only for students part of the Imperial Algorithmic Trading Society.

Application deadline:

  • Friday, 20th of November

Event date: 

  • Tuesday, 24 November, 18:00 - 20:30

Location:

  • Blackett Lecture Theatre 1 (Blackett building Imperial College London)