LamePanda
LamePanda

AMA about Algorithmic Trading

Bored at work, AMA

22mo ago
Snoopdogg
Snoopdogg
Student22mo

What is the ROI for the firm? And can start your own fund if returns are lucrative?

LamePanda
LamePanda
Hft22mo

10-20% pa Seems low, but these are very low risk returns on very high (9-10 digit USD) capital and uncorrelated to the market. Only a handful of firms can do this consistently.

Blood
Blood

Uncorrelated? Are these not equity investments?

SoftwareDaddy
SoftwareDaddy

How to prepare for interviews for this role?

I mean priority of datastructures and experience in interviews.

LamePanda
LamePanda
Hft22mo

Be good at Math Be very good at Statistics Be very good at Probablity Be very good at Machine Learning (not DL but traditional methods) Be good at DSA

Good to have:

Data handling, cleaning experience Elementary knowledge of stochastic process Understanding of derivatives and pricing

qinnairen
qinnairen
Student22mo

Any resource to begin on Statistics. if the resource requires pre requisite, would request that as well

Watcher9
Watcher9

How's the salary? Can you give a few examples?

LamePanda
LamePanda
Hft22mo

Base starts around 30-50L, Bonus also starts around similar range. If you are moderately successful your bonus could grow to the few Crs range.

Watcher9
Watcher9

Is this the salary for (A) strats who experiment new ideas in python or (B) the coders who develop the production level code on top of finalized idea in C++ or Java?

parrotAI
parrotAI

What algorithms do you use?

LamePanda
LamePanda
Hft22mo

Good ones

OddNeon33
OddNeon33

Can AI take over your job?

LamePanda
LamePanda
Hft22mo

If AI can find insights from data, learn feature engineering, and generate good models, it will be able to do 50% of my job.

Licht
Licht

How is this any different from a Data Scientist role?

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