Proprietary Trading Firm — Advanced Quant, Same Stack
Focused strategy and execution research as reusable artefacts, with no change to the firm's stack.
A prop firm trading futures, FX and crypto has strong technology partners and wants advanced quant input on strategy and execution — without changing its stack. We would review strategy research and execution analytics, then deliver focused quant research as reusable artefacts, keeping a clean line between QD methodology, platform partners and the firm's own engineers.
The Challenge
The firm is well served on technology and doesn't want to rip anything out. Its gap is analytical depth on specific strategy and execution questions across a fast, multi-asset book spanning futures, FX and crypto.
Any external quant work therefore has to slot into an existing environment with existing vendors, respect those boundaries, and leave the firm with research it can reuse — not a consulting engagement that ends when the invoices stop.
The Approach
We would work inside the firm's stack and vendor relationships, focusing narrowly on the questions where senior quant input moves the needle.
1. Review strategy and execution
We would review the firm's strategy research and execution analytics to find where advanced quant input would add the most, rather than reworking what already functions.
2. Deliver research as reusable artefacts
We would produce focused strategy and execution research as self-contained, documented artefacts the firm can fold into its own workflow and reuse beyond the engagement.
3. Keep the lines clean
We would maintain a clear separation between QD methodology, the firm's platform partners and its own engineers — advanced input without vendor lock-in or blurred ownership.
What we'd deliver
Focused strategy and execution research — from microstructure-aware execution analytics to targeted strategy questions — delivered as reusable, documented artefacts that integrate with the firm's existing stack and keep a clean line between QD, its platform partners and its engineers.
The Likely Outcome
The firm would get senior quant depth exactly where it wants it, without disturbing a technology setup that already works or taking on a new dependency. The research would arrive as reusable artefacts its engineers can integrate and build on, and the clean separation between QD, its vendors and its own team would leave ownership unambiguous.