There are various fields a tech graduate can opt for, while finance involves a lot of commercial aspects, there also is a technological side. With the advent of HFT and algorithmic trading the technical side of finance has been ever evolving. The possibilities have expanded - Trading itself has segments such as hedge funds, sell side & vendors. These segments further branch out into quantitative roles and technological development. The presentation will help any technical graduate enter this vast and ever changing domain of financial markets. You can also view the video of this presentation here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9O9WqJgXks If you are interested in this domain, find out how to learn and build your career at our website: www.quantinsti.com.

1. Sunith Reddy
1 Feb 2015
Careers in Finance for Tech Graduates

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3. Why a career in Finance?
I wanna make sure you’re ready, brother.
Here it is: Show me the money.
-Rob Tidwell (Jerry Maguire)

4. The possibilities
I-Banking
• Tech/IT support
• Analytics
• Number crunching
VC/PE
• Sector specialist
….. and

5. 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

6. What’s so special about now?

7. Architecture of a Traditional Trading System
Order Manager
Market Data
Operation
al Data
Store
Exchange
Data
Warehouse
/
Storehouse
of
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

8. 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
Maths
Calc
RMS
Admin
Monitor
Exchange 2
F
I
X
F
I
X
Data
Normalizer
Order
Router
Back
office
record
MktData
Store
Event
History
Adaptor for
third party
apps – R,
Matlab, etc
Data
Retrieval
Data Vendor
Replay of
stored
data
Simulator
exchange

9. “Responsible for most technology innovations in the last
decade, the army and trading world are”
- Master Yoda

10. Eg-1 Kernel Bypass

11. Example 2 – Microwave communication
• Microwave communication

12. NaturalLanguageProcessing
•News based
analytics
•Error
detections
•Pattern
recognition
Hardwareengineers
•Hardware
parsing of
data
•Strategy
baked into
the hardware
Networkspecialists
•Accelerate
packet
processing
•Kernel
bypassing
DataScientists
•Needle in the
haystack
problems.
•Finding non-
random
patterns
•Strategy
development
Gaps in todays market

13. Thank You!
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