Building and Pitching Trading Strategies
Autumn Quarter
Instructor: Christopher Gersch
Syllabus
Building and Pitching Trading Strategies prepares graduate students to function like real-world quantitative traders and portfolio managers. Students learn how to research, design, and implement systematic trading strategies built upon rigorous mathematical reasoning and industry-aligned standards. Core concepts include signal development, market microstructure, statistical modeling, risk management, and robust back-testing frameworks.
This course pushes beyond model construction. Students will learn to communicate investment ideas with clarity and conviction, developing the leadership presence required to secure capital and stakeholder support in highly competitive markets. They will study best practices drawn from successful hedge fund managers, proprietary trading firms, and elite global exchanges.
The ultimate goal of this course is to equip students with both technical capability and presentation excellence so they feel confident stepping onto a trading floor or into an investor meeting ready to win support for their ideas for their head traders, owners and/or investors.
This course counts towards the Trading concentration.