1. Welcome the Next Generation
Trading

2. What is Quant?
• Recognizing patterns of noise. E.g. market
data
• Highest paying jobs in banks and hedge funds
(secretive profit centers)
• Our definition:
• http://quantlabs.net/blog/about/what-
exactly-are-quants-and-quant-finance-
anyway/

3. Automated Trading and HFT?
• Automated trading is programmatic trading
rules that engage in the markets
• HFT (high frequency trading) represents over
80% of all trading volume on NYSE and other
markets
• Our definition:
• http://quantlabs.net/blog/about/high-
frequency-trading-hft-how-and-why-its-
taking-over-the-markets/

4. Skills needed
• Programming skills is a must to be successful
• Need to adopt Do It Yourself attitude if you
intend to develop your own secretive
profitable trading strategies
• Outsource only to those developers you trust
• .NET (C#) and Windows is easiest to start with
• MATLAB is best to prototype algorithms with
which can be easily code generated to C++
which is fastest

5. How to get started in Quant as Career
• Quants make big bucks!
• How to get started in all aspects:
• How to get started in quant finance, hft high
frequency trading, automated algorithmic
trading
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBTHKNL
aAJc

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• Join the QuantLabs.net Academy
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• http://quantlabs.net/membership.htm
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