Dissertation topic advice

I'm deciding an interesting topic for my dissertation, and would like to know your thoughts/advices. Disclaimer: I'm doing a quant MSc that involves finance and energy, and want to end up working in Trading/CTA/HF/AM

The topics that I have in mind now are:

1 something related to weather option pricing and montecarlo (little material about and more actuarial work due to insurance policies I guess)

2 something related to volatility in crude and gas using GARCH and neural networks

3 maybe something related to statistical arbitrage / pairs trading

In both I'm going to use Python/MATLAB to justify assumptions & other things Any input would be highly appreciate I want to write a dissertation that could boost my profile in terms of quant skills/research, and maybe help me also to land a job in global markets..

Thanks a lot!

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