IAQF Annual Paper Competition

The International Association for Quantitative Finance (IAQF) is dedicated to foster the profession of quantitative finance by providing platforms to discuss cutting-edge and pivotal issues in the field and acts as a beacon for the development of quantitative finance. MathWorks is providing free access to MATLAB based computational finance products used by industry for financial modeling and analysis. Our goal is to help students engage in a rewarding and fulfilling experience that will help them prepare for a career in finance.

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Competition Resources

Videos

Backtesting Strategy Framework in Financial Toolbox(2:17)

Backtesting Investment Strategies with MATLAB(35:39)

Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading(32:55)

Code Examples

Backtest Framework

Simulating Electricity Prices with Mean-Reversion and Jump-Diffusion

Stationary Stochastic Processes

Copulas: Generate Correlated Samples

Discovery

Algorithmic Trading

Cointegration

File Exchange

Pairs Trading Strategy

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