You are all cordially invited to the AMLab seminar at Tuesday May 31 at 16:00 in C3.163, where Matthijs Snel from Optiver will give a talk titled “An introduction to market making and data science at Optiver”. Afterwards there are the usual drinks and snacks!

Abstract: Optiver is an electronic market maker with significant presence on equity and derivatives exchanges around the world. Our automated trading strategies operate as semi-autonomous agents, processing information and making multiple decisions in the blink of an eye. In this talk, I will explain some basic market making concepts, supported by real-world examples of market microstructure. I will also provide an overview of what kind of data and challenges our strategies and machine learning applications deal with.