Get a hands-on tour of the black box...
in a cohort-based, intensive and pragmatic workshop.
Should you be thinking about systematic investing?
- Are you a portfolio manager looking for a quant overlay
- A quant developer interested in the investment side
- A successful trader looking for more edge
- You want to know what quant investing really means.
- ... or want to expand your skills.
- Want to fast track your learning? you need a guide who's done it before.
Systematic investing is about a process.
We've spent twenty years pushing the boundaries in quant: writing software used by millions, creating one of the longest-running conferences in the space, and running platforms and alphas on the desks of some of the best funds in history.Get started in
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- Attend the Workshop
- Learn 7s Core Framework
- Apply to Your Investment Process
Meet Your Guides
Jeff Ryan - Founder, Quant & Developer
Having spent more than 20 years in trading and quantitative roles, Jeff has helped some of the best firms and traders in the business. Currently building a next – generation research-driven data business, he helped to lead a hedge fund's research efforts in crypto, helped to build alpha, data and research processes at Citadel's flagship quant strategies business, and advised numerous new desks and pods at multi-strat funds as well as boutique proprietary trading firms. He co-founded one of the leading quant conferences in the world in Chicago, taught an online course with 40k participants and authored software downloaded hundreds of millions of times.
Justin Shea - Founder, Trader & University Lecturer
From the Chicago Mercantile Exchange trading floor to an active member of a cutting-edge digital asset research – Justin equips professionals, students, and organizations with actionable insights in quantitative finance and data science. His commitment to sharing knowledge extends from his position as a Senior Lecturer of Finance at the University of Illinois-Chicago, to being an organizer of PyData Chicago, Chicago's R User Group, and the osQF conference. Justin offers clear instruction with proven frameworks, and hands-on strategies. Through his university teaching, consulting services, and community leadership, he leads others to innovate, make data-driven decisions, and to stay competitive in the rapidly evolving finance landscape.
Why did we want to create this workshop?
Inspired by great practitioners and academics who share what they know, we are taking our motivation from brilliant minds like Rishi Narang and his book Inside the Black Box, Atilio Meucci's intensive ARPM workshops (a deep dive into everything quant) and French economist and mathematician Raphael Douady's Primer series (a focused set of one day workshops teaching the most important details). We are also deeply leveraging our experience over the last 17 years of running our Open Source in Quantitative Finance conference in Chicago.We are wired to help people and have seen the lasting impact our software and conference has made. We are lucky to have been successful in this business. A large part of this success has come from learning from others (and making a fair number of mistakes). We are looking to simply move more people to the power of quantitative processes, and feel like the market is missing a lower barrier to entry. Most quant is not rocket science, it is just regular business.
It is a process that anyone can implement. And everyone should.
Why add systematic ideas?
Firms like D.E. Shaw, Two Sigma and Citadel make billions of dollars employing thousands of PhDs to process petabytes of data across thousands of machines. They have
an indisputable edge for sure. But there is plenty of room to use the same ideas for your own investing.
So how do you begin to compete?
First, don't start by boiling the ocean.
You start small, with meaningful steps to make your investment process more rigorous and defensible. This is the core philosophy of
systematic investing. Even discretionary funds are leveraging data science, statistical rigor and automation. You don't need to
trade algorithmically to see massive gains from systematic ideas. Formalizing investment theses, honing the process of discovery and testing,
to ultimately applying a consistent lens to your results is the core of quantitative approaches.
What you'll learn:
- Adopting even a single quant idea has immediate value
- Knowing where to start is critical
- A battle-tested roadmap to get you started
- Systematic investing is about process
- Math, stats and programming skills are valuable, but can be built as you go
- Systematic thinking supercharges your existing expertise and productivity
- The workshop is just the start. Access to office hours means you keep getting better.
Attend if you ...
- work on a quant(amental) desk already, but want to understand nuance
- have investing experience — a few years to decades
- understand the basics of probability and statistics
- can write some code (or Excel) - and are open to learning more
- are a great researcher or developer and looking to expand your options.
- are trading equities, etfs, commodities, crypto, sports... quant applies to all!
do NOT attend if you ...
- are a new investor or a student just looking for a job.
- are looking for new strategies - our workshop is about learning the process.
- enjoy using emotion, gut feel, (and bias) in your investing
What do I get with the workshop
- 2 x 120-minute group workshop sessions spread over a two weeks (online, 4 hrs total)
- Forever Access to all future introduction workshops - once a guest you're always welcome back.
- 3 x 90-minute office hours (monthly, 4.5 hrs total).
- Systematic Investing Roadmap - step by step playbook to continuously expand.
- Early access to forthcoming handbook and workbook. (Late 2025)
- Exclusive 1:1 with 7systematic experts (very limited, separate fees apply)
- First option to attend future virtual and in person courses and events
Get Access to the "Forever" Workshop + Office Hours
$695(2 session workshop + 3 months of office hours)
extend office hours + $495
(12 months in total)
$425
workshop only (2 session workshop, no office hours)
- 8+ hours of direct, virtual access (workshop + office hours)
- Virtual workshop with Jeff & Justin plus occasional guest instructors
- Virtual office hours to help apply systematic process.
- Systematic Investing Roadmap - step by step guide to plan and refine your progress.
- Exclusive access to all new 7systematic offerings - (additional fees may apply)