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QUANTINSTI QUANTITATIVE LEARNING

Algorithmic & Quantitative Trading Institute

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03 About us

04 Advisory board

05 Core team and Founders

07 Flagship programme - EPAT®

08 Career Cell for EPATians

09 Self-learning portal - Quantra®

10 Quantra Blueshift® 11 Alumni speak 12 QuantInsti Associates

13 Media Coverage

Contents

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With the advent of Algorithmic Trading in global markets and the benefits it brings to traders

across the board, it is imperative to develop domain knowledge and expertise in quantitative

and algorithmic trading skills. QuantInsti is a pioneering algorithmic and quantitative trading

research institute with a registered user base in 160+ countries. The institute is focused on

preparing professionals in the financial industry for the contemporary field of Algorithmic and

Quantitative Trading.

QuantInsti is also a proud member of CPD certification service, the leading independent CPD

accreditation institution operating across industry sectors to complement the Continuing

Professional Development policies of professional institutes and academic bodies.

QuantInsti’s flagship programme ‘Executive Programme in Algorithmic Trading’ (EPAT®) is

world’s first verified certification, offered to professionals looking to enter or grow in the

algorithmic and quantitative trading industry and has benefited participants from over 60

countries. QuantInsti has also designed education modules and conducted knowledge

sessions for/with various exchanges in South and South-East Asia and for leading educational

and financial institutions.

Quantra® is an e-learning portal by QuantInsti that hosts short and modular self-

paced courses on Algorithmic and Quantitative Trading in a highly interactive fashion

through machine enabled learning.

With the vision of becoming a global knowledge and technology powerhouse in the

quantitative and algorithmic trading domain, QuantInsti also launched Quantra

Blueshift® in 2018 to offer backtesting and research capabilities for users in both Indian

and US markets with minute level data. They work closely with top global financial

and educational institutions through their content, delivery and research tools.

Apart from imparting knowledge on advanced concepts through its various

courses, QuantInsti contributes to the industry through various initiatives including

participating in & hosting webinars, conferences, meetups and workshops in different

parts of the world.

QuantInsti® is headquartered in Mumbai.

About us

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Advisory boardProfessor Gautam Mitra

Prof. Mitra was awarded the title “Distinguished Professor” by Brunel University in

recognition of his contributions in the domain of computational optimization, risk

analytics and modelling. He is an internationally renowned research scientist in

the field of Operational Research in general and computational optimization and

modelling in particular. OptiRisk Systems, for which he directs research, is today a

leader in the domain of financial analytics. Professor Mitra is also the founder and

chairman of UNICOM Seminars. He has developed a world class research group in

his area of specialization with researchers from Europe, UK, USA and India. He has

published five books and over 150 research articles. He is an alumnus of UCL and

currently a Visiting Professor of UCL.

Dr. Ernest P. Chan

Dr. Chan is a commodity pool operator and trading advisor. Since 1994, he has

been focusing on the development of statistical models and advanced computer

algorithms to find patterns and trends in large quantities of data. He has applied

his expertise in statistical pattern recognition to projects ranging from textual

retrieval at IBM Research, mining customer relationship data at Morgan Stanley,

and statistical arbitrage trading strategy research at Credit Suisse, Mapleridge

Capital Management, and other hedge funds.

Distinguished Professor, CARISMA, Brunel University

Founder & Managing Director, OptiRisk Systems

Managing Member, QTS Capital Management, LLC

Author, Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business

Author, Algorithmic Trading: Winning Strategies and Their Rationale

Audience participation is as important to the learning experience as the instructor. I find the participants at QuantInsti’s courses highly motivated and many came prepared with insightful questions. This made for a great experience for all.

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Core team and FoundersQuantInsti® was founded by iRageCapital and a team of Algorithmic Traders and domain experts dedicated to

providing practical knowledge to professionals interested in Algorithmic Trading. The team comprises of highly

qualified professionals from top technology and finance colleges in Asia, Europe, USA, Canada and Singapore.

iRageCapital is one of the pioneers in the field of High-Frequency Trading in certain prominent geographies in Asia.

GAURAV RAIZADA

Gaurav leads the quantitative trading development at iRage. He is also the CIO of iRage MasterTrust Investment Managers (AIF/Hedge Fund). Prior to iRage, Gaurav worked with Axis Bank as a Forex-Interest Rates Derivatives Trader. He is also an adjunct faculty member for Quantitative & Algorithmic Trading at IIM Ahmedabad.

B.Tech, Chemical Engineering - IIT Kanpur

PGDM – IIM Lucknow

Anupriya is a director at QuantInsti® handling content & pedagogy development. She has a rich managerial as well as pedagogical experience and has been responsible for coming up with many new initiatives at QuantInsti. Before QuantInsti, Anupriya has worked for Educational Initiatives Pvt. Ltd. and Citigroup.

ANUPRIYA GUPTA

Master’s in Science (Integrated, 5 years),Mathematics - IIT KanpurMaster’s in Education - TISS

Nitesh has a rich experience in financial markets spanning across various asset classes in different roles. Prior to leading QuantInsti® as its CEO, he was the business lead for iRage. Before co-founding iRage & QuantInsti, he has worked with ICICI Bank’s treasury (FX & Interest rates) and then as a lead trader in a proprietary trading desk.

NITESH KHANDELWAL

B.Tech, Electrical Engineering - IIT KanpurPGDM – IIM Lucknow

At iRage, Anil conceptualized & managed trading desks across various asset classes. He is also credited for designing firm-wide risk and compliance practices in iRage. Prior to iRage, Anil had worked as an independent commodities trader, after his stint with The Chatterjee Group’s (TCG) Private Equity fund and Lehman Brothers.

B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering - IIT KanpurPGDM – IIM Lucknow

ANIL YADAV

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Vivek is the Director at Kredent Group, and Managing Partner of iRage Broking Services. He has been a trader himself & manages 200+ traders trading multiple assets. He’s also the co-founder of StockEdge, one of India’s leading stock market apps. He is part of various committees of exchanges & regulatory bodies and has been an active contributor in the evolution of Indian Derivatives Market.

VIVEK BAJAJ

Chartered Accountant & Company SecretaryPGDM – IIM Indore

Swati currently leads the career cell and corporate relations, at QuantInsti®. She has a rich experience in sales, marketing and operations, which immensely helped in scaling QuantInsti’s operations in the early years. Before QuantInsti, Swati worked with Times Group, where she was responsible for

developing and nurturing corporate relationships.

SWATI GOYAL

Post Graduate Diploma, Management – Amity Business School

Sameer leads the core technology and machine learning research at iRage. He is passionate about driving the core technology in setting new benchmarks in tick-to-trade latency. He is involved with designing trading models using deep learning research harnessing the temporal and spatial nature of market microstructure concurrently.

SAMEER KUMAR

Master’s in Economics & Information Systems - BITS Pilani

Rajib leads the proprietary trading business for iRage as its CEO Before co-founding iRage, he worked with Optiver in Amsterdam. He is also an adjunct faculty member for Quantitative & Algorithmic Trading at IIM Ahmedabad and is a regular speaker in global conferences across America, Europe & Asia. Also, Rajib has represented India at World Puzzle Championship thrice.

RAJIB RANJAN BORAH

Bachelors in Computer Engineering – NIT SurathkalPGDM – IIM Calcutta

Prodipta leads the Quantra Blueshift development along with other FinTech products at QuantInsti as its Vice President. Prior to joining QuantInsti, he worked with Deutsche Bank in Mumbai & London offices and with Standard Chartered Bank. Prodipta has also worked as a scientist in India’s Defence R&D Organization (DRDO) before entering into the financial markets domain.

PRODIPTA GHOSH

Bachelor Engineering in Mechanical Engineering - Jadavpur UniversityPGDM – IIM Lucknow

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Flagship offering - EPAT®

QuantInsti® provides high-level training for professionals looking to grow in the field or planning to start their careers in Algorithmic & Quantitative Trading.

It focuses on aspiring traders towards a successful trading career, by focusing on derivatives, quantitative trading, electronic market making, trading related technology and risk management.

The programme is built around a fully examined core of three modules:• Quantitative Techniques • Programmatic Tools• Financial Markets

In addition to EPAT® for individuals, EPAT® for Business is a recent initiative by QuantInsti® that aims towards helping organizations stay ahead of the changing landscape and offers the right platform to launch as well as flourish in the quantitative and algorithmic trading domain. We at QuantInsti® partner with organizations to enhance the skill set of their workforce and help them develop quantitative trading skills. Students for this programme get to learn from an acclaimed team of industry experts and market practitioners in the field.

FeaturesPractical Exposure: Acquire the knowledge and learn tools & techniques used by traders in the real world

Verified Certification: Verified certification with Prometric for EPATians provides an edge to your profession

Support: Dedicated Support Managers for each EPATian, a standalone 7-days support team for all your queries and guidance to ensure you gain the best from EPAT

Career Services: Our lifelong career services, job resources and guidance from market experts become available to you the moment the course starts and lasts throughout your professional career

Life long learning: Access to an updated content (as per industry changes) for future reference for the participants

Alumni chapters: EPAT comes with access to the global community of Algo traders

To know more, log on to www.quantinsti.com/epat

Key Elements• Duration – 6 months

• Specialization – Particular asset class and/or

trading strategy through the project work under

expert mentorship

• Online Delivery – A focused learning experience

consisting of practical sessions conducted through

web-meetings and virtual learning environment

• Expert Faculty - The EPAT® faculty

is an acclaimed team of subject matter

experts(academicians and practitioners) like Dr.

Ernest P. Chan, Dr. Euan Sinclair to name a few

• Student Portal – All relevant lecture notes,

query forms, recorded lecture videos, assignments

and supplementary readings are easily accessible

through a personal account on the learning

management system

• Certification – Assessment comprises of the

assignments, quiz, and attendance during the

course in addition to the final exam at the nearest

available centre. On successful completion,

participants will receive a certificate from

QuantInsti Quantitative Learning Pvt. Ltd.

The Executive Programme in Algorithmic Trading

Industry Recognitions

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Career OpportunitiesQuantInsti career cell team offers support to participants who seek new opportunities in the field of Algorithmic Trading.

The placement assistance is a life long support along with assistance in resume building and mock interviews.

For companies who want to hire experts in this niche field, we provide best talent in absolutely no hiring cost.

Career cell for EPATians

Placement Partners

Technically strong candidates who have good working knowl-edge of Quantitative trading are quickly becoming essential to the financial sector. QI has helped us immensely in our Quantitative & technical hiring requirements.

Pratik GuPta

Co-founder,Crimson Financial Pvt. Ltd.

QuantInsti offers a repository of high-quality profiles, their steady base for reference minimizes our hiring efforts. The entire pro-cess of sharing information and scheduling interviews is done in a very seamless manner by Quan-tInsti’s Career Cell.

ViVek Gadodia

Co-founder,Dravyaniti Consulting LLP

Our collaboration with QI has turned out to be extremely fruitful as candidates are well qualified and EPAT adds a lot to the desired skill set required for the job.

anish teli

Managing Partner,QED Capital Advisors LLP

To know more on placement services visithttps://www.quantinsti.com/quant-jobs

100+ Placement PartnersSee complete list here.

Partners Speak

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Self-learning portal - Quantra®

Recommended Learning Track

Courses Offered

SELF-PACED LEARNINGMakes your learning experinece

a lot more comfortable

INTERACTIVE EXERCISESEvaluates your code in real time and helps you learn as you code

TRADING EXPERTSDesigned by market practitioners and market experts for the best learning

experience

FOUNDATION BEGINNER INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED

Getting Started withAlgorithmic trading!

Python for Trading!

Statistical ArbitrageTrading

Quantitative TradingStrategies & Models

Trading with MachineLearning: Regression

Trading with MachineLearning:

Classification and SVM

Options TradingStrategies in Python:

Intermediate

Algorithmic Trading for Everyone

Quantra is an e-learning portal by QuantInsti that specializes in short courses on Algorithmic and Quantitative trading.

SENTIMENT TRADING

Sentiment Analysis in Trading

Trading using Options Sentiment Indicators Python for Trading

Mean Reversion Strategy in Python

Quantitative Trading Strategy and Models

Getting Started with Algorithmic Trading

Trading with Machine Learning: Regression

Trading with Machine Learning: Classification

and SVM

Decision Trees in Trading

Neural Networks in Trading

Options Trading Startegies in Python:

Advanced

Options Trading Startegies in Python:

Intermediate

Getting Started with Algorithmic Trading

QUANTITATIVETRADING

MACHINELEARNING

OPTIONS TRADINGSTRATEGIES

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BACK-TESTING

Develop your investment strategy in python programming environ-ment. Analyse back-test results

and fine-tune your strategy.All for free.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

You completely own the intellec-tual property rights to all of your strategies you develop on our platform. Privacy and intellectual property rights are among our top

priorities.

DATA

Integrated data frees you up from data management worries which

dare often costly. We are con-stantly improving the quality and

coverage of our data feeds.

Quantra Blueshift®

Quantra Users’ Speak

Quantra Blueshift® is a platform to bring institutional class infrastructure for investment research, backtesting and algo-rithmic trading to everyone; anywhere and anytime. We have launched the alpha version - a fast backtesting platform with minute-level data covering multiple asset classes and markets. We’re working tirelessly to make more features (includ-ing live trading) available to you very soon. Sign up today and start getting ready for the future of trading and investing.

Features

To know more, log on to www.quantra-blueshift.quantinsti.com

Get started on Blueshift. Check-out our quick-start guide

Read about the datasets

Also check-out our GitHub page to clone a large set of sample strategies - spanning different styles like technical indica-tors, factor investing, pair-trading (and some advanced ones), in equities and forex.

Very good course that hand holds the student through the different concepts, both, of statistical tests and python code.

Very good course for people interesed in spread portfolios. I think you can integrate at the beginning with some tool to install in you pc to run strategy anc codes on your pc and not in the environment you set up inside the course itself.

-arturo Cruz esParza, norway

-Gabriele bellelli, italy

Really enjoyed taking the course. Was looking for a course like this for quite some time. Highly recommend this.

-himanshu satija, india

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EPAT® proved to be very beneficial for me, equipping me to understand broker requirements, trading techniques, strategies built under the ‘high-frequency’ domain and more. The programme stresses on risk management of algorithmic trading, which is a very important aspect for exchanges and regulators.

siddhartha samartha

Assistant Product Manager, Estee

I think EPAT® by QuantInsti® is currently one of the best courses in Algorithmic trading in the world. The way the course has been designed and the vastly experienced faculty they have on board makes EPAT® one of the best in the world. Also, the LMS (online learning platform) is super user-friendly and allows you to connect to your batchmates from across the globe.

rohit GuPta

Vice President, ARC Capital Ltd, Shanghai, China

I am very happy about my participation in EPAT course! I received so much needed knowledge about Algo trading. The accompaniment staff through whole learning process was amazing! All mentor are highly skilled and well experienced in covered topics! The knowledge and programming skills I

received during the course is very useful and I apply them every day!andriy VasilieV

Head Of Research And Development, AlgoTradeSoft

EPAT® helped me to interact with a growing community of alumni from more diverse backgrounds. If you are looking for a professional overview of the space, or already an expert looking at some new topics EPAT® can help you learn something new. I look forward to seeing a continued growth in

QuantInsti® as well as the network of clever people coming out of the program.derek wonG

Director, Systematic and Options Trading, Beijing, China

The course offers many new things to learn in this cutting edge innovative and exciting domain of High Frequency Trading. Having covered all the aspects of Algorithmic trading, the course also trains the participant to implement the learning in one’s own trading. With theory being applied in a practical manner, I am very happy with its content. Faculty has extensive experience and domain knowledge to share with us.

nishith kumar

Vice President, Goldman Sachs

Alumni Speak

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QuantInsti AssociatesCourses and Exams

Brokers

Past Events

Market Data Vendors & Trading and Back-Testing Tool

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Events & Media Coverage

Management Development Programs (MDP) in AlgorithmicTrading, for National Stock Exchange, Mumbai, 2015

Spotlight in Algorithmic Trading with EPAT Event, Bengaluru, 2019

The Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Workshop, Kuala Lumpur,2015

Trade using Quant methods: Factor Investing Workshopin association with PyData, Mumbai, 2019

QuantInsti® invited at the TradingShow in Chicago, 2015

QuantInsti in News

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Website: www.quantinsti.com Email: contact@quantinsti.com