So they gave me a Quant

I would not focus his time on black box HFT, as that really involves computer infrastructure more than quant work. I would ask him to develop a futures trading model based on yield curve spreads. This is quantitative, interesting, and has lots of potential if he is really a genius.
 
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So the quant comes into the office for the past 2 weeks and so far all I know is that he is good at getting lunch and bad at making restaurant reservations!

So what should I have this guy do?
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1. Assign him a "project" to illustrate a curve fit:

a. using TA of his choice (macd crossover or something basic) create a directional trading program and optimize over:

i. one month

ii. six months

iii. one year

iv. five years

v. 10 years of data

b. Each trial will include an out of sample (blind) performance report at least 20% as long as the training window

c. Conclude the assignment with a graph of OOS performance vs. in sample returns for the various time frames

2. Repeat the assignment using another TA, fundamental, spread, correlated, or other strategy.

3. Present the most robust (least degradation OOS as % of in sample) and the highest performing (max return as % of max DD)

4. Conduct sensitivity study on these two finalists by tweaking the parameterz and noting the performance change

...... that should keep him going for a week or two.
 
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