Building an Algo Trading Team

Hello everyone,

As the title says, I’m building an Algorithmic Trading Team. I’m an engineering grad from a top institute, currently working as a Model Developer, and I’ve always been hooked on algo trading.

This project is purely out of passion. I’m not here to predict the future, but to create a model that can reasonably make money with good sharpe ratio. If it works—awesome! If not, it’s still a solid project to learn from and put on the resume. If you’re into quant trading, algo trading, model development, or just curious about how trading firms work, this could be for you.

What’s Done So Far:

Pulled 1-minute data for NIFTY50 equities from 2015 to now (yesss, just 10 years of data as of now - will try to expand soon).

Cleaned, validated, and plotted some basic graphs.

Got about 20 technical indicators lined up, planning to test them with different parameters (like 20 x 30 combos).

Next up: correlation and sensitivity analysis for each variable against equities.

I’ve manually tried a few trading techniques before that has helped, but now I’m aiming to build full strategies and automate them. Once that’s done, we backtest and see where it goes!

Also, I’ve worked with VPS for deployment and have some experience with Q/Kdb+. It’s not C++ fast, but it’s way faster than Python and easier to use with Kx libraries.

Who I’m Looking For:

Someone genuinely passionate about this. You don’t need to be a pro, but you need to be curious and ready to learn.

I put in 2–3 hours every night after work, so I’d love to work with someone who’s willing to put in consistent effort.

Some experience with trading and Python would be required.

If you’re an SDE, quant, model developer, trader, or algo trader—even better!

If you're interested or have any query, please please feel free to DM me. For a starter, give a short intro about you and shoot your questions please.

Thanks for taking out time and reading, have a great day mate and enjoy your weekend.✨✨