Quantitative Strategies. High Frequency Data 2400-QFU2FEC
Lectures plan
Lecture 1: Organizational matters, introduction to R.
Lecture 2: Introduction to quantitative trading, evolution of high-frequency trading, types of high-frequency trading strategies.
Lecture 3: Characteristics of intra-day data, data sources, working with tick data, data adjustments.
Lecture 4: Review of the statistical and econometric foundations of the common types of high-frequency strategies: linear regressions.
Lecture 5: Review of the statistical and econometric foundations of the common types of high-frequency strategies: time series.
Lecture 6: Backtesting and evaluating performance of trading strategies.
Lecture 7: Strategies of the highest frequency, with position-holding periods of one minute or less.
Lecture 8: Market microstructure models.
Lecture 9: "Event arbitrage" strategies.
Lecture 10: Statistical arbitrage strategies.
Lecture 11: Portfolio construction, multistrategy portfolios.
Lecture 12: Factor models and factor based trading strategies.
Lecture 13: Execution systems.
Lecture 14-15: Students' presentations.
Lab sections
1. Introduction to R
2. Dealing with time series data of different frequency, frequency conversion, data aggregation, plotting the series.
3. Statistical and econometric analyses - correlation, regression, etc.
4. Rolling analyses, storing partial results of analyses, loops and own functions.
5. Backtesting of trading strategies, calculating evaluation statistics.
6. Portfolio construction and evaluation.
7. Students' presentations.
Estimated student workload:
Type of activity K (contractual) S (independent)
lecture (classes) 30 (K) 0 (S)
practical classes 30( K) 0 (S)
exam 2( K) 0 (S)
consultations with lecturer 8 (K) 0 (S)
preparing for practical classes 0 (K) 15 (S)
preparing for lectures 0 (K) 15 (S)
preparing for test 0 (K) 0 (S)
preparing for exam 0 (K) 0 (S)
preparation of the final project 0 (K) 50 (S)
Total 70( K) 80 (S) = 150
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Term 2025Z:
Lectures plan Lecture 1: Organizational matters, introduction to quantitative trading. Lecture 2: High-frequency data and its characteristics. Lecture 3: Evolution of high-frequency trading methodology. Lecture 4: Review of the statistical and econometric foundations of the common types of high-frequency strategies. Lecture 5: Mean-reverting, momentum strategies and pair trading. Lecture 6: Building an automated strategy – study of entries and exits. Lecture 7: Calculating position and profif-and-loss in gross and net terms, transactional costs. Lecture 8: Evaluating performance of trading strategies. Lecture 9: Fishing for ideas and strategy backtesting. Lecture 10: Statistical arbitrage strategies. Lecture 11: Event arbitrage strategies. Lecture 12: Extensions of basic strategies – stop loss, take profit. Lecture 13: Recent research – e.g. applications of Deep Learning in algorithmic trading. Lecture 14-15: Students' presentations. Lab sections 1. Review of dealing with intraday time series data, plotting the series. 2. Frequency conversion, data aggregation. 3. Application of correlation and regression analysis on a rolling basis. 4. Analysis of cointegration and Granger causality on a rolling basis. 5. Constructing strategy setup using different entry/exit techniques. 6. Calculating positions and gross/net pnl. 7. Evaluating performance of the strategy. 8. Applying simple momentum and mean-reverting strategies. 9. Applying more advanced (pair trading) strategies – part 1. 10. Applying more advanced (pair trading) strategies – part 2: additional filtering. 11. Checking additional strategy assumptions. 12. Adding stop-loss and take-profit to the strategy. 13. Recent research – e.g. applications of Deep Learning in algorithmic trading. 14-15. Students' presentations. |
Type of course
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Students will be able to analyze and aggregate high-frequency time series data. They will know how to prepare and backtest trading strategies, calculate appropriate evaluation statistics and select best performing strategy. In addition, students will be able to indicate successful strategies for different data frequencies.
KW01, KW02, KU01, KU02
Assessment criteria
Assessment of the lecture:
Written, open book exam, covering topics discussed during the lectures.
Assessment of the lab sections:
Trading strategies project prepared in groups of 2 students. Building and backtesting a trading strategy for 5 series (or groups of series – everyone exactly the same) of different frequencies.
100 points will be given for:
- presentation in class: 20 pts,
- written report: 40 pts,
- best results (ranking): 40 pts (max. 8 pts. per each series – 8 if returns in top quartile group, 6 if 2nd, 4 if 3rd and 2 if in lowest 25%).
Bibliography
Literature
Aldridge, I. (2010), High-Frequency Trading: A Practical Guide to Algorithmic Strategies and Trading Systems, Wiley Trading.
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Narang, R.K. (2009), Inside the Black Box: The Simple Truth About Quantitative Trading, Wiley Finance.
Supplementary literature
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Term 2025Z:
Recommended literature: Aldridge, I. (2013), High-Frequency Trading: A Practical Additional literature: Leshik, E.A. and Cralle, J. (2012), An Introduction to Algorithmic Trading: Basic to Advanced Strategies, Wiley Trading |
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