quant trading

Anyone done this yet or know anything about it? Wondering if it's gonna be technical or how it'll compare to other hirevues given that UBS goes from this straight to a super. Also, is it worth networking at this point, having already gotten the Sonru? Would it help at all?

16 May 2023

Which role is better for a summer internship: Morgan Stanley Institution Equity, Derivatives Trading & Structuring Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Quantitative Investing Strategies I am looking for a more quant focused role and ultimately hope to end up working at a quantitative position at a hedge...

11 May 2023

Hi all, I'm writing this post because I just had my annual review and promoted to Senior Actuarial Analyst and currently trying to weigh my options. My TC went from 80k to around 100k and I have 2 YOE. For those who know the actuarial space, I am 1 exam away from ASA and pretty confident I can get...

28 Mar 2023

Hi All, An introduction: I am a Junior at Ivy League School studying Operations Research/Quant Finance/CS. I was extended an offer by top BB bank [GS, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley] for consumer credit risk - not in corporate or market funct. unfortunately. The role seems challenging and a majority of...

02 Mar 2023

Hi. I want to apply for master of financial engineering. Ideally I want to be a quant trader at prop shop/ hft. I do not really know what school I should target. I am planning to apply for MFE as fresh out of bachelor grad. Here's my background : - going to state school, well known but very average...

27 Jan 2023

I am a Math major and had data science internship experience. I feel my academic strengths, interests and personality point toward quantitative analysis and quant trading as a career. I have taken Finance courses, so I can prepare and apply for IB internship too. Would a quant internship or IB...

22 Jan 2023

I'm a first year attending Imperial College London and studying Joint Mathematics & Computing (integrated 4 year master's degree). I am considering switching to physics because I believe I will enjoy it more I will probably get better grades - I'm struggling with pure maths and do not have the...

17 Dec 2022

Been looking at quant firms, and I was curious about IMC (for a QT/QR role). How does it stack up to the rest of the quant trading companies in terms of: 1) prestige and recognizability (and by that, I mean how well-regarded its traders are in the industry, not whether some layperson would know what...

13 Dec 2022

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew the amount of infrastructure/support that is typically available for quant/systematic PM/pods in MM platforms (millennium, citadel, cubist etc). I've heard its quite bare bones - as in "you just get computers and are expected to build up from there". I would...

04 Dec 2022

Hi, I'm a rising sophomore at a target studying math who's currently interning at a quant hedge fund. A few days ago I was offered a return offer which included working during the school year and then receiving a FT offer once I graduated. (This was strictly meritocratic. I had no connection to this...

04 Aug 2022

Does anyone have information about the performance of Aquatic Capital (aquatic . com)? Anyone been through the interview process? Finding it hard to get info from the usual sources.

23 Jun 2022

Hey everyone, I've ended up with some unexpected free time and am looking for off-cycle trading internships from October to April. There don't seem to be many resources out there with lists of off-cycle internships, particularly in quant, so has anyone got any suggestions? Thanks!

06 Jun 2022

I've committed to Cornell CAS and I was looking to get some advice as to what I should major in. I plan on majoring in math, and due to the structure of the major and its requirements, it's relatively easy and common to double major. The second majors I'm most interested in are CS and econ. I'm...

14 Apr 2022

Deciding between two junior year internship offers. The trading firm is very unknown, but I'm told first year TC will probably be around 150K - 175K. SWE is Amazon. Points I'm considering: Compensation is a lot more variable at the trading firm, and I've heard career path is hard to manage if I do...

01 Mar 2022

From what I can gather, trading firms in London and Amsterdam like Jane Street, Optiver, Flow Traders, ... offer graduates a total compensation that comfortably clears six figures. Does anybody have insight into how the pay in Dublin shops (Virtu and SIG) compares (maybe broken down into base, bonus...

28 Feb 2022

Hello, Brand new account but have been a lurker at WSO for a while. I am currently a high school senior and am quite interested in going into quant trading or related area. Any insight or wisdom into the following questions would be much appreciated: 1. Best Major/minor combinations for an aspiring...

15 Feb 2022

I am looking for a person to train with for quantitative trading interviews. I think that It would be funny and profitable preparing interviews with someone, by zoom/call! If any of you are interested, please reply below Let me know, Thanks

31 Jan 2022

For some background, I'm 23, graduated with a BEng Mechanical Engineering in May (GPA 3.38/4.2, (2.1)). And am due to begin a one-year MSc in Financial Economics at the beginning of February. My goal is to start my first "big boy," job as a quant in January 2023 (hopefully finding a job before...

15 Jan 2022

Hope everyone is having an enjoyable holiday. I've been using this site for a while now and this is my first post - I don't want this to come across in a tone of arrogance. I am a final year undergraduate reading for a mathematics degree at a UK target (i.e. Oxbridge) and really want to pursue a...

29 Dec 2021

UChicago undergrad here planning to major in econ and computational/applied math -- anyone have a list of good quant places to shoot for internships at? I have heard the interview process is hella competitive but that pay and worklife balance is relatively good. I am worried about the exit...

12 Dec 2021

Has anyone here completed the Crypto.com math test for any of their quant related roles (trading, research, dev)? Curious to hear thoughts / experience.

29 Nov 2021

Hello - I am facing a decision for where I would like to accept a Summer internship (summer before senior year), and am not sure what is best for me in terms of a career development perspective. I am a Computer Science major looking towards quant finance, and am deciding between Balyasny Asset...

29 Nov 2021

Hello all, Little background about me: Studying undergrad Maths at top UK uni (penultimate year), aiming to break into quant finance firms (prop trading/market making/quant hedge funds) for quant trading type roles Got through to mid/late stage interviews with a couple of prop trading firms for...

26 Oct 2021

In May I posted on this forum seeking advice on how to sell my algorithms (that were up 57% at that time) to a Hedgefund. The algorithms recently closed near the 75% mark (74.8%) so I thought it would be time to update those interested on what I did with the advice I got in May. The TLDR of the...

14 Oct 2021

I am very new to this website. Just want to preface this post by saying that I do not feel as if I deserve a job at these top quant trading firms, but I would like to think I have what it takes to make it to the first stage... My question is, what can I do to improve my chances of getting a...

10 Sep 2021

Quick question: Which prop trading / market making shops would be worth turning down top BB (JPM/GS) trading offer for? Not going to be more specific, but given my educational background, I think I would fit in better at prop trading/ market making shop... (obviously a much higher barrier to entry,...

10 Sep 2021

Do you guys think this is generally a bad idea? Currently working @ Platform (millennium, citadel, p72, schonfeld type) Payout is ok, and I dont mind taking stress + working long hours, but I dont see much forward here - I dont find much learning opportunities. The opportunity is there, but I need...

21 Jun 2021

Hey guys, I'm interested in becoming a quant and going into trading at a prop shop or IB (whatever I'm able to get). In regards to my qualifications - I'm at a GO8 Australian uni (top 30 in the world) studying actuarial studies + mathematics in a double degree, with a quantitative finance major. I...

26 May 2021

I'm an engineer trading prop using algorithms I built. I'm currently the top trader using these algorithms, and looking to sell them to a hedge fund to move on to my real life passions. But, I do not know where to start. Has anyone sold algorithms to a HF here or purchased algorithms for a HF?...

15 May 2021

I'm an American thats finishing my degree overseas in December this year and because of the unique situation + losing my internship to covid, I feel like it'll be really hard to secure a trading job right put of the gate. I got really lucky in that my school allowed me to kind of build a degree...

21 Apr 2021

I am currently a high school junior looking to study mathematics at a (hopefully top) university in the UK or the US. I want to work at a quantitative hedge fund company like Citadel, and I was wondering how much CS I would need. Is it enough just to know how to programme with languages like Python...

08 Apr 2021

Hi WSO - hoping someone can shed some light on these two areas of finance. I've found bits and pieces of information, but no detailed breakdown of the two. Understand that there's also some variability in what the titles mean at different firms. Particularly interested in learning: What do these...

05 Apr 2021

Hi all, I'll be graduating from a decent UK uni this year with a BSc in Mathematics. I've been given 3 conditional offers for: Cambridge MASt Applied Mathematics, Imperial College London MSc Mathematics and Finance, LSE MSc Financial Mathematics. My ambition is to become a quant, and I realise that...

31 Mar 2021

Hi, I am a 1st-year analyst at an active quant fund in AM. Getting paid 75K which is not high but decent enough to pay my rent. People are nice to me which is mostly because they are genuinely nice people but also because I get most of the actual job done. I see very little growth potential at the...

21 Mar 2021

I got to a top 5 cs school (think UIUC/Cornell/GT/UCB) and i was wondering if it's worth getting a cs/math double major.

03 Feb 2021

I go to a top 5 CS undergrad and will go to grad school, just wondering if its doable.

30 Jan 2021

Not in real estate, currently a math student Theoretically, is it realistically even possible for one person to start there own prop trading firm? I understand this would mean identifying a strategy, algo development, backtesting, going live, managing risk, and continuous research. Lets assume AUM...

21 Jan 2021

Would it be possible to Intern as an S&T SA, and get a return offer on a Quantitative/Algorithmic team? I am a Math & Statistics major, with decent experience in R/Python/C++. For some reason HR moved me to the regular S&T program than the Quant one, but I'm still hoping to get some experience on...

21 Oct 2020

Apologies if this question has been asked here before but I'm relatively new here. Current junior majoring in math at a non-target and am really looking to break into a HF/prop shop as a quant trader. However unsure how to go about this. I have previous internship experience at a f500 and I...

10 Oct 2020

Hi quants, I'm a junior majoring in econ & math. I'm going into IB next summer but realized that quant trading (citadel, JS, etc.) is what I'd really like to be in for the long-term. I consider myself some what well-versed in native Python, but haven't actually taken any DS&A classes. Now I got some...

16 Sep 2020

Hello Everyone! I just went through 3 long years of internships to go from being completely clueless about finance to learning the industry and landing a competitive job. Along the way, I got a lot of help from this platform and I want to pay that forward, so I'm doing an Q&A. ####About me: From...

27 Nov 2019

XTX Markets, one of the leading quant-driven market makers has just setup a new challenge: https://challenge.xtxmarkets.com/ Is anybody participating?

05 Jul 2019

Hi everyone, I received an email of a phone interview invitation for quant trader internship at Akuna. I found a few relevant answers online but not that detailed. I was wondering if anyone has been in the hiring process and could potentially share some inputs with me, I'd greatly appreciate it!...

21 Jan 2019

Hello all. I am currently in the process of interviewing with Wolverine Trading, but cannot find much recent information on the shop. I was wondering if anyone could share their past experience with the firm, as well how good its reputation is and how competitive compensation is for a quant trader....

27 Nov 2018

So I have a call with a lead data strategist at a quant hedge fund. He told me to reach out in advance with any in depth questions I have that will require prior thinking. Does anyone have any ideas for topics to ask questions on so I can formulate some of my own? Thanks.

04 Jun 2018

Hi everyone, I developed a pretty keen interest in math maybe a tad late into my college career after declaring a dual degree in econ and business administration. Funny thing is my school is definitely known for STEM, but because I'm almost done with both of these majors, I am not totally sure I...

27 Jul 2017

I was just wondering what you guys think of KCG holdings? Would it be a good place to start a career as a Junior Quant Trader in their London office? Does anyone have any knowledge of the company/culture/comp etc or could share an opinion? Thanks!

23 May 2015

Hi Guys, I would like to get into a quant trading job and a lot of these positions require a proven trading model and track record. Can someone please advice how does one start? If I trade on my personal account can that be used as track record? Thanks, Kevin

01 Mar 2014

So I'm really interested in going into the fields of quant analysis/quant trading. I'm right now attending Williams College as a sophomore. I plan on majoring in Classics (im sill deciding greek/latin, or both) and Computer Science. I have a true passion in the classics so I don't really want to let...

25 Sep 2012

Hi folks, I am second guessing a decision I made, so need some perspective to clear my head. I am a part of the FT program at a BB in NY and am rotating through different desks. I did one rotation at the equities quant trading desk (prop) and they made me an offer to join in full time as they liked...

13 Sep 2012