Detailed description:

• 4 weeks of practical training through Futex Trading Academy
• manual trading Bund futures using TT
• understanding of trading psychology, financial markets mechanisms and market makers role
• blogging about trading (http://pro-trading.pl)
• soon after starting live trading, started working on developing algorithms to trade the markets
  - 6 hrs/day – manual trading
  - 9 hrs/day – programming and developing automated strategies
• main programming languages: C# and Matlab
• software used:
  - Open Quant (+ extended trial of Quant House)
  - Matlab and Matlab Distributed Computing Toolbox including set up and configuration of cluster of 20 computers
  - Visual Studio 2008
• optimization of software for speed and performance
• responsible for all steps in strategy development:
  - brainstorming trading ideas
  - trading idea analysis and back-testing
  - walk forward optimization with a focus on avoiding curve fitting
  - money and risk management
  - sim trading
  - live trading
• strategies include:
  - long term portfolio (holding positions many days on different markets)
  - swing trading
  - ladder scalping, very short term trading

Sample source codes:

Detailed description of Self Employment of a drop shipping style business selling food supplements:

• web design (http://zdrowosci.pl, http://sklep.spirulina.pl, http://www.spirulina.pl)
• technologies: PHP, HTML, SQL, CSS
• online advertising and marketing (search engine positioning, google adwords, google adsense, affiliate programs)
• customer relationships management (dealing with questions, doubts, delays and delivery issues)
• outsourcing and finding right people to the tasks required
• dealing with supplier

Since: 2001

Research Assistant (University of Birmingham, Nov ‘07 – Aug ‘08:):

• paid university work as an assistant in event studies, impact of addition/deletion company from index on shares price
• high volume data manipulation in excel using vba
• results included in paper published by Dr George Georgiou form Business School of University of Birmingham

Shift Manager – Waiter (The Gallery Restaurant, Coventry, Nov ‘06 – Nov ‘07)
Shift Manager – Waiter (The Prague, Coventry, Sep ‘05 – Sep ‘06)

• dealing with bookings, service and managing a team of waiters
• programming tills and adding new products to a system
• operating tills and dealing with cash and credit card
• serving customers, dealing with compliments and complaints
• focused on delivering high quality customer service to provide not only food but also unforgettable experience

Bartender (Dogma Kitchen and Bar, Coventry, Sep ‘06 – Mar ‘07)

• focused on top quality service while serving meals, wines, cocktails and other drinks
• my top gross sale was approx £1200 during 5 hours Saturday service

Receptionist, Waiter, Bartender ( Studland Dene Hotel, Bournemouth, Jun ‘05 – Sep ‘05)

Bartender (Traders, London, May ‘04 – Oct ‘04)
Bartender (Balham Kitchen and Bar, London, May ‘03 – Oct ‘03)
Bartender (Boheme Kitchen and Bar, London, Jun ‘02 –  Sep ‘02)

Ski Referee (Various winter competitions in 2002, 2003)

• time measurement for disciplines like Slalom, Giant Slalom, etc.
• results preparation in Excel and dedicated software

Bartender (Boheme Kitchen and Bar, London, Jun ‘01 – Sep ‘01)

Dissertation:

• Neural Networks estimation of expected returns and risk to calculate efficient frontier of portfolio consisting of 7 main stock index futures.
• algorithm for time series prediction based on evolved neural networks designed in Matlab as a continuation of my development from MSc Natural Computations dissertation

Trading Techniques
Coursework: Investment Recommendation: Palladium (pdf)

• Technical Analysis
• Macro Analysis

Fund Management
Coursework: Investment strategy for Polish Market (pdf)

Risk Management
Coursework: VaR estimation (pdf)

Quantitative Techniques
Coursework: Variance Estimation (pdf)

Conference (Aug 2008, Liege, Belgium)
- conference paper (pdf )
- conference presentation (pdf)

Concurrent and Real Time Software Design (pdf)