Quant Group 1 Brandon Ngiam
My Background Computational Finance Have experience with a personal brokerage account Interned at a prop shop dealing with Futures and Options last summer
Goals of my project 1) Learn about markets through the lenses of trading/ Shaping an opinion about the market 2) Derivatives pricing 3) Back-testing
Basics Basics of trading - Price action; Bid – Ask; Market Depth Products + Players Different approaches to trading – Fundamental; Technical; Quantitative; Hybrid
Market knowledge Market Discussion – Focused on the Euro debt problems – Taking it a step further – Important for job interviews (banks)
Derivatives Basics/ General Idea (No arbitrage pricing) Black – Scholes Focus on working knowledge; not derivation Commonly asked during interviews
Back testing Deliverable Secondary objective (won’t spend much time on it) Readings (Quantitative Trading)
How this will be done Weekly/Fortnightly Meetings s Assigned reading/articles
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