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Prateek Jaiswal

Quantitative Analyst
Mumbai

Summary

I'm Prateek Jaiswal, a 2022 IIT Kanpur graduate, trading and researching high-frequency strategies with a Mumbai-based HFT firm. I enjoy analyzing Tick-by-Tick (TBT) data, I am an entrepreneurial and self-motivated professional, dedicated to collaborating on challenging projects, enhancing skills, and achieving continuous improvement in my professional journey.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience

Work History

Quantitative Analyst

IRageCapital (High-Frequency Trading)
06.2022 - Current
  • Research and trade an Options Market Making strategy focused on the Implied Volatility surface within the Indian Equity derivative market
  • Conducted analysis of strategy logs, leading to enhancements in order replacement, order priority logic, hedging strategies, and option pricing
  • Developed a dynamic spread model for options quoting, systematically analyzing market dynamics and order flows across various market regimes
  • Regularly monitored Implied Volatility skewness and Greek exposures to proactively manage risk exposures within the portfolio during trading
  • Successfully implemented and deployed a Stochastic Volatility Inspired (SVI) model to calculate Implied Volatility values for an entire option chain
  • Demonstrated a keen interest in analyzing Tick-by-Tick (TBT) data, meticulously identifying observations and patterns crucial to find signals
  • Formulating an alpha based on market microstructure: incorporating order book imbalances, order flow- types, and frequency analysis
  • Conducting an examination of the lead-lag relationship between order arrivals in options and changes in the future order book

Education

CBSE(XII) - undefined

Nalanda Academy, Kota

CBSE(X) - undefined

Little Flower School, GIDA Gorakhpur

B.S. Economics -

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Kanpur
05.2022

Skills

Python

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Research

Media Expressed Negative Tone & Firm Level Stock Returns (June'20 - August'20)

  • To observe the relation between Media Expressed Negative Tone and predictability of firm level stock returns
  • Web Scraped news articles using BeautifulSoup library for NIFTY50 firms from top business-news websites
  • Performed tone analysis using NLTK Tokenizer and Lemmatizer & Loughran and Mcdonald word list
  • Built a Vector Autoregression(VAR)[Time series model] to derive effect of negative tone on daily share returns
  • Observed negative impact of negative tone on stock returns; 17% return on sentiment based trading strategy

Position Of Responsibility

Founder, Public Policy and Opinion Cell, IIT Kanpur, May'20 - May'21

  • Spearheaded a 3-tier team of 50+ members to organize events for 7500+ members of campus community
  • Planned 1st edition of Indian Governance Summit having esteemed personalities like Viral Acharya
  • Partnered with Policy firms to conduct 15+ workshops & competitions on Economics, Geo-Politics, Science
  • Successfully led flagship event Policy Conclave, collaborated with 10+ firms & arranged 1L+ INR sponsorship

Interests

Gym, Travel, Movies

Timeline

Quantitative Analyst

IRageCapital (High-Frequency Trading)
06.2022 - Current

CBSE(XII) - undefined

Nalanda Academy, Kota

CBSE(X) - undefined

Little Flower School, GIDA Gorakhpur

B.S. Economics -

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
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