Quant Fund
The AIC Quant Fund is a division within the Aggie Investment Club designed for STEM-focused students. As part of the Quant Fund, you will collaborate in teams to design and deploy quantitative trading strategies, managing a real $80,000 portfolio in collaboration with AIC’s Equity Fund. We focus on bridging the gap between computer science, mathematics, statistics and finance, providing a unique environment where you can build sophisticated trading models, generate alpha, and learn the practicalities of derivative and equity trading in an academic setting. If you are passionate about data, coding, and the markets, we want you on our team.
Past and Current Projects
Prediction Markets Model
Monitored markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket to find tradable correlations between prediction markets and public equities.
Used characteristics of Prediction Markets to create and train a probabilistic scoring model used to weigh market sentiment on the underlying securities.
Derivatives Market Model
Developed a large-scale options data pipeline processing 147.9M+ option contracts, calculating relevant greeks on an in-house Linux Server.
Developed a crash-risk model using option surface features to rank equities by downside risk, achieving 6.61x lift in crash detection versus the stock universe baseline.
Agentic Information Processing Model (AIP-M)
Used developed an agentic pipeline to process and analyze salient news events pertaining the S&P 500 market basket.
Generated actionable alpha over 3 months of live forward testing on real funds.