An Investment Odyssey: The Gains of Avant-garde Traders at HKU
An Investment Odyssey: The Gains of Avant-garde Traders at HKU
The team attended the CASH Algo Trading Challenge 2023 award ceremony. (From left to right: Shah Jahan Ishaq, Muhammad Hussain and Hassan Ali Naeem)
It all started with the team’s initiative in experimentation. While all three of the group were committed to a full-time summer internship back then, they still managed to join this international algorithmic trading competition, venturing all the way in rounds of ideation, testing, and competing steps. The valuable takeaway was the practicality of doing heavy-lifting parts of monitoring the market, analyzing the mathematical indexes, and applying risk management knowledge. More rewardingly, the process was much accelerated and strengthened in contesting with the pool of more than 500 participants originating from over 15 countries, while some even possess years of working experience.
A high-spirited team photo celebrating the hard-earned victory together with the trophies. (From left to right: Hassan Ali Naeem, Muhammad Hussain, and Shah Jahan Ishaq)
Their magnificent and glorious results were unexpected by them. One of the team members, Muhammad, recalled, “Some audience talked to us and asked whether we were PhD students already without knowing we were still freshmen. We could hardly imagine that we did make this impression.” This comment is living proof of how competent our students are.
While they are very successful in formulating investment strategies, they are savvy at investing in themselves as well, true investors somewhat larger than life. Never underestimate yourself - their success story has proved to us your beginning and experience per se do not matter, but a mature growth mindset helps reap a mature investment.