Quantitative Research Workshop 2025

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