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The Sophron® Quant Program

A quant desk of its own, by selection, open to anyone to apply. Teams of quant researchers, developers and traders work on one project together, for at least one cycle. The meetings are online, so you can take part from anywhere. Free to apply; you only pay if you are selected.

Freeto apply
Onlineevery meeting
4starts a year
1cycle at least
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Selection pool · you only pay if you are selected.

How it works

Rolling projects, by selection

  1. Apply for free. A Sophron® account, your CV, a few short questions, a link to code if you have any, and up to three quant seats you would like, in order.
  2. Selection, four times a year. The quant desk has four onboarding moments a year, one at the start of each cycle of the Analyst Program. Before each one the desk selects its new teams from everyone who applied. A place is not guaranteed.
  3. Selected? You get an offer for your seat by email. Take it within three days with the Sophron® Passport (€25 a year) or AIC Premium (€15 a year), then press Join the program and your seat is waiting in the quant portal.
  4. Not selected this time? Apply again for the next project. There is no waiting period.

The project

  1. The Quant Modules. Intro to Quant and the Quant Modules, each lesson with a short test, read in the quant portal.
  2. Online check-ins. Every meeting is online. Running teams meet at regular check-in calls, where each team shows where its project stands and what comes next.
  3. The Data flow. What your team uses and builds goes on the desk’s Data flow: the data sources, the tests and the strategies, tagged with your project.
  4. Handing in. There are four submission moments a year, one per cycle. Your team hands in its project at the first one at least one cycle after it started, or at a later one if it needs more time. Never shorter than one cycle; longer is fine.
  5. The certificate. When the Sophron® team signs off the project your team handed in, the whole team is certified: every member who has passed all the quant lessons and has one item of their own on the Data flow receives the Sophron® Certified Analyst (Quantitative).

Amsterdam, online and quant are separate. You take part in the Quant Program or on an Analyst Program desk (Amsterdam or online), not both at once. The selection pool is the only way between them, unless you ask Sophron at contact@sophron.eu. Once your report or your project is handed in, you may already start on another desk while you finish the closing steps of the one before.

Interested in equity research instead? See the Analyst Program.