2017 PRINCEON QUANT TRADING CONFERENCE AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY IN PRINCETON, NJ

We are pleased to invite you to the 2017 Princeton Quant Trading Conference at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ. The conference will feature speakers and panelists from leading trading firms, banks, and hedge funds from around the country. Our speakers will provide real trading and quant insights from the trenches. There will be opportunities to network with leading professionals and fellow top students and gain an insider's view of this fast-paced and exciting sector of finance as well as learn about internship and employment opportunities.

Over the past six years, we’ve brought together more than 80 high-level industry professionals and 1,800 students in Princeton and in Chicago to discuss the leading trends in quantitative trading. This year’s fall conference will take place on Saturday, April 8th, at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ. Below are just a few of the companies that have been represented and recruited at previous conferences:

To register, please visit our conference site: 

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or our Eventbrite page: 

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We look forward to having you join us.

*PortfolioEffect Algorithmic Trading Workshop**

In addition to this year’s Spring Princeton Quant Trading Conference, which will be held on Saturday, April 8th at Princeton University, we will also be hosting the Princeton-PortfolioEffect Algorithmic Trading Workshop on Sunday, April 9th from 9:00 am - 4:30 pm.

Our workshop has been developed and will be led by the Stephanie Toper, Senior Quantitative Developer at www.portfolioeffect.com/">https://www.portfolioeffect.com/" target="_blank">PortfolioEffect. During the workshop, you will learn how to compute intraday risk with Portfolio EffectHFT package available on CRAN. The complexity of high frequency market data will be explained. You will study how to build your own portfolio, create a strategy, backtest it, optimize it, and use vol forecasting. 

Prerequisites: Beginner knowledge of R and finance, college level math, laptop with RStudio installed.

Similar www.quantopian.com_workshops&d=CwMGaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=mbG2RMy...">https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.quantopian.com_..." target="_blank">workshops cost nearly $800, however registered participants of the 2016 Princeton Quant Trading Conference will receive admission at the following subsidized prices:

  • Student tickets are $85

  • Non-student tickets are $399

    We will have a limit of 50 participants. The first 20 tickets will be provided for participants that have already registered for the conference at a 20$ discount with the code ALPHA20. Only after you’ve registered for the conference you will receive an invitation to register for the Princeton-PortfolioEffect Algorithmic Trading Workshop.

Date: 
Thursday, February 23, 2017