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)
Skills Required
- Must be a member of the Imperial Algorithmic Trading Society
- Must be an Imperial student
- Interest in quantitative trading, statistics, probability, and technology
- Quantitative thinking and logical reasoning skills
What We Do
GSA is a multi award winning quantitative investment manager, focused on systematic trading across liquid equity, futures and foreign exchange markets globally. Today GSA manages a number of absolute return, alternative investment funds, aiming to deliver superior risk-adjusted performance by systematically exploiting a range of market inefficiencies, using quantitative techniques and innovative technologies. GSA is authorised and regulated by the FCA and registered with the SEC. GSA is currently hiring. To enquire about employment opportunities with GSA please visit https://www.gsacapital.com/careers
