Akuna Capital’s 2026 Virtual Quant Trading Challenge

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Akuna Capital’s 2026 Virtual Quant Trading Challenge Virtual Quant Virtual Trading Challenge About Akuna: Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions and automation. We specialize in providing liquidity as an options market-maker - meaning we are committed to providing competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To do this successfully, we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies and mathematical models. Our Founding Partners first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney. They opened the firm's first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world - Chicago. Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, London, and Singapore. What you'll do as a Virtual Quant Trading Challenge Participant: Are you quantitative, competitive, proficient with Python and looking to test your skills in a Quantitative Trading environment? Break into the Trading industry by participating in our latest simulation! Candidates will gain hands-on trading experience by writing their own market-making bots which will compete both against our models and one another on a simulated exchange. The most profitable submissions will win Akuna swag and expedited recruitment processes in our Quant full-time and internship roles in Chicago! The challenge will take about 5-8 hours to complete, and the competition will be open for 1 week (from August 17 th - August 21st). Qualities that make great candidates: - Able to dedicate 5-8

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