OpenQuant Newsletter - Edition #4
Quant Jobs & Internships, Upcoming Events, Puzzles and More!
Hello, fellow Quants!
Welcome to our weekly newsletter, where we share the latest jobs/internships, educational opportunities, and upcoming events in quantitative finance.
Here’s what we have on this week’s agenda:
Internships
Full-Time Jobs
Upcoming Events
Quant Puzzle
Our Top Internships
✨ Dexterity Capital - Software Engineer Intern 2023 | an algorithmic high-frequency trading firm focused on digital asset markets.
✨ 4170 Trading - Trading Analyst Intern 2023 | a proprietary trading firm based in Chicago, Miami, and Hong Kong.
✨ PwC - Risk Modeling Services Intern - Summer 2024 | an international professional services brand of firms.
✨ Booz Allen Hamilton - Data Analyst Intern | a consulting firm with expertise in analytics, digital, engineering, and cybersecurity.
Our Top Full-Time Positions
✨ Stevens Capital Management - Quantitative Research Analyst | a firm that develops and implements empirically based quantitative trading strategies.
✨ Putnam Investments - Quantitative Investment Associate | an investment management firm that offers actively-managed ETFs and Institutional strategies.
✨ Allspring Global Investments - Quantitative Portfolio Analyst | an American asset management firm committed to thoughtful investing.
✨ Schonfeld - Quantitative Researcher | an American hedge fund based in New York City that offers an industry-leading systematic trading platform.
✨ Optiver - Graduate Equity Analyst | a proprietary trading firm and market maker for various exchange-listed financial instruments.
Upcoming Events
📆 IMC Launchpad Trading Program | a 2-day program for second-year students interested in trading and software engineering roles at a leading global trading firm.
📆 3/21 ProfitView Algorithmic Trading with Python Workshop | workshop that covers backtesting and deploying an algorithmic trading strategy in a live environment
📆 3/21 Flow Traders Deep Dive Into Market Making & ETF Arbitrage (Webinar) | a presentation on market making and ETF arbitrage by traders at Flow.
📆 3/21 - NYU Virtual Seminar on Empirical Deep Hedging | a talk by Dr. Juho Kanniainen, a Professor in Quantitative Finance at Tampere University.
Weekly Quant Puzzle
Last week’s puzzle:
“A family has 7 children, consisting of 4 boys and 3 girls. Assuming birth order is unknown and equally likely, what is the probability that the eldest 3 children are girls?.”
Solution: 1/35
This week’s puzzle:
“What number comes next in the sequence: 21, 12, 9, 3, __”
Quote of the Week
“There’s no such thing as the goose that lays the golden egg forever.”
– Jim Simons
SOLUTION OF THE WEEKLY PROBLEMS PLS…