Your Complete Path to
End-to-End Algo Trading
Set Up Your Own Algo Trading Desk
Get expert guidance to build and run your personal or professional algorithmic trading desk.
Backtest & Live Trade with Confidence
Use institutional-grade platforms like Blueshift and broker APIs to test and automate your strategies.
Access Institutional Market Data
Work with market data across stocks, forex, crypto, and options using powerful Python APIs.
Fund Your Trading Venture
Get access to funding opportunities from global partners when you demonstrate high-performing systematic trading strategies.
Why Traders Choose EPAT
Learn from Industry Experts
Learn from expert faculty with unmatched trading experience, including industry leaders like Dr. E P Chan, Dr. Euan Sinclair, and other seasoned quants. These experts teach actionable strategies and techniques you can apply immediately, while keeping you ahead of trends like machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning. Get personalized guidance on setting up your trading desk and mastering key concepts like order matching, execution systems, volatility measures, and risk assessment.
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Curriculum Designed for Traders
EPAT’s curriculum is designed to equip traders, from beginners to experienced, with the exact skills needed to transition into systematic, quant, or automated trading.
Learn ideation to come up with trading ideas
Learn strategy development and convert a trading idea into a strategy.
Machine Learning & AI-enabled skills set and stay updated with the latest trends
Risk & Portfolio Management using advanced quantitative models
Example of topics covered in EPAT
Go beyond traditional trading skills and master the advanced techniques that today’s top prop firms and hedge funds rely on. EPAT equips you to apply machine learning and HFT principles directly to your trading strategies.
Apply Machine Learning Models.
Master HFT Principles.
Simulate Execution Algorithms.
Build HFT Infrastructure.
Guidance to Set Up Your Trading Desk
Real Traders, Real Desks | Powered by EPAT
EPAT was a game-changer for enhancing my investment advisory setup
EPAT has been a game-changer for my Algo Trading desk setup. Along with covering key topics like Statistics, Python Programming, Machine Learning, and Trading Infrastructure in depth, QuantInsti’s personalised support played a vital role. Overall, EPAT was a transformative step I took towards improving my algo trading desk.
Richard Harrison
Quant Trader, United States
EPAT played a crucial role in enhancing my trading venture. If I’d completed EPAT 15 years ago, it’d have sped up the progress of my trading business.
David U. Ordiz
Professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
The curriculum enabled me to transition from a learner to establishing my own company.
Yash Sarda
Founder of Above Alpha Capital, India
Backtesting & Live Trading
Immersive Learning
EPAT offers immersive learning, allowing you to backtest strategies, analyze results, and trade live with confidence.
Blueshift, by QuantInsti, is an all-in-one automated trading platform that brings institutional-class infrastructure for investment research, backtesting, and algorithmic trading.
Know more about Blueshift
Backtest & Paper Trade
Learn to analyze historical data and backtest strategies in Python
Learn different backtesting techniques and the pros and cons of using each of them
Code and backtest strategies on various platforms and using different Python APIs
Code a backtesting script with machine learning models
Develop confidence in your trading strategies by paper trading before risking actual capital.
Live Trading*
The EPAT curriculum enables learners to trade in live markets using:
Interactive Brokers - IBridgePy (wrapper around IB API) and TWS
The REST API (supported by a vast network of brokers across the globe
The Blueshift Platform
Guidance on cloud computing using AWS
Execution algorithms: VWAP, TWAP, Smart order routing (Coming soon!)
*We don’t endorse any brokers or trading platforms; all sessions are conducted purely for educational purposes. The sessions follow the regulatory guidelines and are NOT conducted during live markets.
EPAT Project Work
Predicting Market Movement & Backtesting Trading Strategies
Mark Rendle
Mechanical Engineer & Algo Trader
Forex Trading for Beginners - Build Systematic G10 FX Index
Marti Castany
Founder and Portfolio Manager, KomaLogic
Trader Transition Stories
Access to Market Data
Wide Range of Markets
Dive into data from various markets including stocks, forex, and cryptocurrencies.
Options Market Data
With Blueshift, access historical market data for futures and options (NSE), including both index options and single stock options.
Historical Data
Analyze years of historical market data to understand long-term trends and market cycles.
Data Sources
With Blueshift’s partnership with leading data providers, access accurate and comprehensive market information.
Python APIs covered in EPAT that help in fetching real market data:
Nasdaq Data Link
Yahoo Finance
Interactive Brokers API
IBridgePy
Binance API for Crypto Trading
Why it matters?
Develop a deep understanding of market dynamics.
Enhance strategies with insights from real, accurate data
Perform advanced analysis with broad-spectrum datasets
Find Funds for Your Trading Venture
QuantInsti has partnered with a global fund, with offices across Asia Pacific & MENA region, to fund EPATians (with Certificates of Excellence) who have promising trading strategies. The preference is for the US and UK markets, but other global markets may be considered depending on the strategy.
No discretionary strategies, only systematic trading strategies are considered.
