careers in finance for tech graduates

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

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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

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•Error detections

•Pattern recognition

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•Strategy baked into the hardware

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•Finding non-random patterns

•Strategy development

Gaps in todays market

Thank You!

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