OpenQuant Newsletter - Edition #5
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
✨ Tower Research Capital - Quantitative Trader Intern 2023 | a high-frequency trading, algorithmic trading, and financial services fund.
✨ UBS - 2024 Quantitative Trading Summer Analyst | a multinational investment bank and financial services company.
✨ Virtu Financial - Quantitative Developer Intern (London) | a leading global market maker that generates liquidity to create more efficient markets around the world.
Our Top Full-Time Positions
✨ NextEra Energy - Associate Trading Risk Analyst | America's premier clean energy leader and the world's largest producer of wind and solar energy.
✨ Calamos Investments - Junior Quantitative Analyst | a diversified global investment firm offering an array of investment strategies.
✨ Millennium Management - ML Quantitative Researcher | a global investment management firm, built on a sophisticated operating system at scale.
✨ Vanguard - Quantitative Model Developer | an American registered investment advisor and the largest issuer of mutual funds in the world.
✨ Flow Traders - Graduate Trader | a market maker that provides liquidity in the securities market by using high-frequency and quantitative trading strategies.
Upcoming Events
📆 3/29 Two Sigma’s Data Exploration Lecture | an overview of Two Sigma’s approach to data exploration and analysis using an open-source dataset.
📆 3/31 Flow Traders Business Course NYC | a unique opportunity to learn directly from the Flow trading team and solve complex market problems with other students.
📆 4/14-4/15 Citadel Datathon | a student competition in which you’ll solve complex problems using math, data science, and technology.
Weekly Quant Puzzles
Question #1 - Sequences
Identify which number comes next to complete the sequence.
21, 12, 9, 3, _
3, 4, 2, 6, -2, 14, _
Question #2 - Statistics
A computer password has a length of 8 characters. These characters can comprise 26 letters, 10 digits, and 20 special symbols. In how many ways can you form these passwords if the first character is a letter, there are exactly two different special symbols, and only one digit?
Quote of the Week
“The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.”
– Albert Einstein