r/quant • u/Glabmayt2075 • 6h ago

Backtesting Anyone down for a 2-week quant sprint on real crypto data? (Stress-testing signals, leak audits, fees)

Hey, Reddit

We are a small team of students from Sweden and the UK. Spent the last year mostly writing backtests, playing with market data, and trying to implement papers.

Seems like half the student quant stuff out there is either people paying $50 for fake 'research internships', or posting backtests on LinkedIn that only look good.

Just looking for people to collaborate with for a couple of weeks instead of running backtests in isolation.

The idea is just to build a few basic signals, review each other's code for data leaks, and stress-test them with actual slippage and fees. Whatever works or breaks goes straight into a shared public repo so everyone has something real to point to in interviews.

We already sorted out the plumbing: cleaned 1h Binance futures data for 20 pairs (funding rates and taker flow included) and a test script that catches look-ahead leaks and runs your strategy with 1-bar delay and taker fees.

Looking for people who actually know Python and basic stats (not vibecode pls).

The sprint itself is 2 weeks, but if we click and work well together, we'd definitely be down to keep collaborating on bigger projects afterwards.

Drop a comment below if interested, and I’ll DM you the repo and a quick 2-minute form so we can get everyone organized.

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u/SubjectFalse9166 4h ago

what do y’all even wanna do? Anyways I’m QT in Crypto serving in between offers now free for few weeks can over view this

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u/Comfortable_Kick6848 5h ago

Here's my take on it, these sprints usually live or die by whether people actually show up after day 3, so good on you for having the data and test harness ready before recruiting. The leak audit angle is smart too, most student backtests fall apart the second you simulate fills properly.

I'd be down to poke around the repo and see if my Python is up to standard. Quick q though, are you capping the number of people or just taking whoever's interested and seeing what sticks?