Oxford Quantitative Trading Society
Quantitative trading, learnt by doing
Education, competition and research for Oxford students with serious quantitative ability. Members learn the mechanics of modern markets and test what they build on OXDAQ, the society's own live exchange.
What we do
Three things, done properly
Education
Lectures and workshops from professionals at our sponsor firms, alongside our own in-house series, built to take a strong quantitative background into the specifics of modern markets fast.
Competition
OXDAQ, our own live exchange, where members write algorithmic strategies and compete in live rounds against each other and a market of bots.
Research
Small research teams that go deep on one area, from systematic strategies to market microstructure, and write up what they find. The first projects launch in Michaelmas 2026.
The society
Built around real participation
The society exists for one reason: the best way to understand markets is to participate in them, measure the result, and argue about why. Members follow a programme that moves from foundations, like how an order book works and what a market maker actually does, to building and testing strategies of their own. Everything taught in a talk gets used on OXDAQ within weeks.
We recruit for quantitative strength above all else. Mathematics, computer science, physics, statistics and engineering are the natural homes; what we ask for is exceptionally strong technical ability and the willingness to test it on a live market in public.
OXDAQ
Our own exchange
OXDAQ is the society's own live exchange: a real order book, live rounds, and strategies written by members trading against each other. Real market making is normally out of students' reach; OXDAQ exists to close that gap. Write a strategy, connect it, and find out whether it survives contact with everyone else's.
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