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High Frequency Finance and Trading – (M.Sc.)

University of Essex

Centre for Compuational Finance and Economic Agents
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Location: Colchester / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴
Duration: 12 months Start Date: October
Educational Form:
  • Taught
Education Variants:
  • Parttime
  • Fulltime
Languages: English 
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The University of Essex is one of the UK's leading academic institutions, ranked ninth nationally for research excellence following the last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).

On our MSc High Frequency Finance and Trading, we equip you with the core concepts and quantitative methods in high frequency finance, along with the operational skills to use state-of-the-art computational methods for financial modelling. We enable you to attain an understanding of financial markets at the level of individual trades occurring over sub-millisecond timescales, and apply this to the development of real-time approaches to trading and risk-management. In addition to traditional topics in financial econometrics and market microstructure theory, we put special emphasis on statistical and computational methods for modelling trading strategies and predictive services that are deployed by hedge funds, algorithmic trading groups, derivatives desks, and risk management departments.

MSc High Frequency Finance and Trading includes hands-on projects on topics such as order book analysis, VWAP & TWAP, pairs trading, statistical arbitrage, and market impact functions. You have the opportunity to study the use of financial market simulators for stress testing trading strategies, and designing electronic trading platforms.


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On our MSc High Frequency Finance and Trading, we equip you with the core concepts and quantitative methods in high frequency finance, along with the operational skills to use state-of-the-art computational methods for financial modelling. We enable you to attain an understanding of financial markets at the level of individual trades occurring over sub-millisecond timescales, and apply this to the development of real-time approaches to trading and risk-management. In addition to traditional topics in financial econometrics and market microstructure theory, we put special emphasis on statistical and computational methods for modelling trading strategies and predictive services that are deployed by hedge funds, algorithmic trading groups, derivatives desks, and risk management departments.

MSc High Frequency Finance and Trading includes hands-on projects on topics such as order book analysis, VWAP & TWAP, pairs trading, statistical arbitrage, and market impact functions. You have the opportunity to study the use of financial market simulators for stress testing trading strategies, and designing electronic trading platforms.

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Requirements

Upper second class honours degree, or equivalent, in relevant subject area.

IELTS 6.0.

Additional Requirements

Minimal degree required: Bachelor's degree
Minimal amount of work experience Not specified

Language Proficiency

IELTS Band: 6.0

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