Quantitative Finance Cohort 2026

The QLab flagship program: a 12-week live cohort that takes you from the fundamentals of markets and probability to a complete, backtested trading strategy that you can defend in front of practitioners.

Every week combines a live Zoom lecture with guided problem sets, and every participant is assigned a mentor who reviews their code and their thinking. The program is deliberately small — seats are capped to keep the ratio of mentors to students honest.

What you will do week by week

• Weeks 1–3: markets, returns and the statistics of risk
• Weeks 4–6: probability, stochastic processes and the mathematics of pricing
• Weeks 7–9: building and honestly backtesting a strategy in Python
• Weeks 10–12: portfolio construction, interview preparation and the final project defence

The final project is a live presentation of your own strategy to a panel of industry quants. Past projects have ranged from volatility trading systems to market-making bots and factor models.

This program is for students and professionals who are serious about quantitative finance and want structured, accountable progress — with a cohort of peers who are just as committed as you are.