Quantitative Trading Workshop - 19th October, London
High Performance Tech Workshop - 20th October, London

Take part in hands-on workshops and explore internship and graduate opportunities at one of the world's leading trading firms

IMC Quantitative Trading Workshop

Learn about different key concepts in quantitative finance and the practicalities of trading and quantitative finance using real-world market data

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19th October 2019 10:00 - 17:00 Free to attend All-day workshop and competitive hackathon - food, drinks and an IMC goodie bag are included

Real-world Quantitative Finance in Python

Are you a curious undergraduate with an analytical/quantitative background and programming experience in python? We invite you to join the IMC Quantitative Trading Workshop!

This workshop is a perfect opportunity to meet IMC traders and quants and better understand how much fun it is to work at IMC. During the workshop you will cover the following topics:

• Introduction to derivatives and arbitrage
• Properties of prices and returns time-series
• Risk-neutral pricing and replication
• European and American options and their relationships
• Black-Scholes model, Greeks and implied volatility
• Option market making, dynamic hedging and risk management
• Implied volatility smiles

IMC High Performance Tech Workshop

Learn the practicalities of bringing systematic trading strategies and production systems together, as well as different concurrency models, and how to implement and optimise them in Java - and more!

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Details

20th October 2019 10:00 - 17:00 Free to attend All-day workshop and competitive hackathon - food, drinks and an IMC goodie bag are included

Portfolio trading and position management

Are you an undergraduate from computer science, a software engineering background and proficient in a programming language (ideally Java or C++)? We invite you to join the IMC High Performance Tech Workshop!

This workshop is a perfect opportunity to meet IMC software engineers and better understand how much fun it is to work at IMC. During the workshop you will cover:

• Thread pools
• Blocking vs. non-blocking IO
• Reactor model and Vert.x
• Profiling and benchmarking on the JVM
• Portfolio trading and position management

About IMC

IMC is a market maker and one of the world’s leading trading firms. For three decades IMC has provided liquidity to the financial markets globally. Specialised in algorithmic trading and advanced technology, we set the pace for the evolution of market making.

Cutting-edge technology is at the heart of all we do. We put it to work in the markets that define our world. More than 700 people from many nationalities, work across offices in Amsterdam, Chicago and Sydney. Technologists and traders team up to explore, design and develop the software, hardware, advanced networks and algorithms that drive our trading strategies. 

What does this mean for you? The chance to join a multi-national, multi-cultural team of exceptional individuals, focused on making IMC the world’s best trading firm.