Principles

The Quantitative Finance Society is a trading, portfolio and financial analysis club at NYU. Started in 2006, the club aims to educate students about trading, the markets, portfolio management, and the macroeconomy.

Portfolios

• Value Equity: fundamental, bottom-up long-only equity
• Global Macro: follows macro opportunities across equities, fixed income, FX, commodities, and derivatives
• Derivatives: volatility arbitrage and statistical arbitrage
• Asset Allocation: portfolio theory, diversification and allocation across equities, fixed income, FX, commodities
• Multi-Strategy: a bit of everything
• Technicals & Algo: technical analysis, momentum and swing trading, algorithms

Presentations

Workshops:

• Derivatives (Futures, Options)
• Asset Classes (Equities, Fixed Income, Currencies, Commodities)
• Trading Strategies
• Portfolio Theory
• Fundamental Analysis
• Technical Analysis & Algorithmic Trading
• Gambling Strategies

Events for this semester:

• Trading Competitions
• Alumni Mingles
• Guest Speakers

Member Rights

• Your time is valuable. Meetings are limited to one hour and are held weekly. Each meeting is an essential piece of trading and market knowledge.
• Simple, methodical explanations. The QFS is committed to making sure you understand each seminar and prepare you for lectures given around the community.
• Questions are always welcome and our group meetings all run in the workshop-style (except for guest speakers) so we are always learning.
• The web site will store all of the meeting content.
• The respective chairs will be available by email to answer any questions or direct you to appropriate sources for information.