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Sunith Reddy
1 Feb 2015
Careers in Finance for Tech Graduates
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Why a career in Finance?
I wanna make sure you’re ready, brother. Here it is: Show me the money.
-Rob Tidwell (Jerry Maguire)
The possibilities
I-Banking
• Tech/IT support
• Analytics
• Number crunching
VC/PE
• Sector specialist
….. and
The Possibilities
Trading (Hedge funds, Sell Side,
Vendors)
Quantitative roles
Strategy development/optimization
Quant model development
Technology development
Platform development
Tools
Algorithm development
Connectivity specialists
Network specialists
What’s so special about now?
Architecture of a Traditional Trading System
Order Manager
Market Data
Operational Data Store
Exchange
DataWarehouse
/
Storehouseof
historical data
Data Vendor
Trader’s tool
Main Centre of operations –analyzing market data wrt to historical data in operational
data store and generating orders
Application Server Exchange
System Architecture of an Automated Trading System
Application
Order Manager
Market Data
Complex Event Processing engine
Exchange 1
Storage
Application Server Exchange
Strategy Settings UI
State Mgmt (PnL + Position)
Order / Execution Monitor
Within application RMS
MathsCalc
RMS
Admin Monitor
Exchange 2
FIX
FIX
Data Normalizer
Order Router
Back office record
MktDataStore
Event History
Adaptor for third party apps – R, Matlab, etc
Data Retrieval
Data Vendor
Replay of stored data
Simulator exchange
“Responsible for most technology innovations in the last decade, the army and trading world are”
- Master Yoda
Eg-1 Kernel Bypass
Example 2 – Microwave communication
• Microwave communication
Nat
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ssin
g •News based analytics
•Error detections
•Pattern recognition
Har
dw
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engi
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rs •Hardware parsing of data
•Strategy baked into the hardware
Net
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pec
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ts •Accelerate packet processing
•Kernel bypassing
Dat
a Sc
ien
tist
s •Needle in the haystack problems.
•Finding non-random patterns
•Strategy development
Gaps in todays market
Thank You!
To Learn Automated Trading
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