Martin Radlak

Current

• Futures Trader at Futex
• Online Shop Manager at Natura Vitalis

Past

• Research Assistant at The University of Birmingham

Education

• The University of Birmingham
• The University of Birmingham
• Politechnika Wroclawska

• Coventry University

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Connections

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Industry

Investment Banking

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company

Martin Radlak’s Summary

After gaining solid education in Computer Science, Engineering and Investments I am currently trading Bund Futures and developing profitable automated trading algorithms for variety of futures markets.

Martin Radlak’s Specialties:

Discretionary Futures Trading, Day-trading, Scalping
Quantitative techniques (Linear Regression, CAPM, Markovitz Model, VAR, Black Scholes, Binomial Models, forecasting and wealth/risk optimization);
Programming (C#, Matlab, VBA with Excel, Java, biased towards Event Driven, Multi Threaded and High Performance Computing); Optimization (Genetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Programming, Ant Colony Optimization, Simulated Annealing); Artificial Intelligence (Neural Networks)

Martin Radlak’s Experience

• Futures Trader

  Futex

  (Investment Banking industry)

  December 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  - Outright discretionary trading Bund Futures
  - Algorithmic Trading and Development (TTAPI, FIX, SmartQuant, C# .Net, event driven multi threaded programming, WinForms, Visual Studio 2008)

• Online Shop Manager

  Natura Vitalis

  (Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  July 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)

  http://sklep.spirulina.pl
  Owner of the company - selling food supplements produced by Natura Vitalis
  - Marketing and advertising
  - Design and software maintenance
  - Dealing with customers via email or telephone

• Research Assistant

  The University of Birmingham

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  September 2007 — September 2008 (1 year 1 month)

  MSc Investments

Martin Radlak’s Education

• The University of Birmingham

  MSc , Investments , 2007 — 2008

  Graduated with Distincition

  Activities and Societies:

  Dissertation Title: Artificial Intelligence for Modern Portfolio Theory - Programming Matlab software for automated Assets Allocation.
  Research assistant - Assisting Dr. George Georgiou in his Event Studies project (financed by FTSE). Managing large data set in Excel with VBA
  Treasurer of Polish Society

• The University of Birmingham

  MSc , Natural Computations , 2006 — 2007

  Dissertation titled: Financial Time Series Prediction
  Graduated with Merit

  Activities and Societies:

  - MICAI 2007 - Eighth Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
  Aguascalientes, Mexico, November 5 to 9, 2007
  Paper publication
  - CASYS 2007 - Eighth International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems, Liège, Belgium, August 6-11, 2007
  Paper publication and oral presentation

• Politechnika Wroclawska

  MSc , Applied Computer Engineering , 2002 — 2007

  Graduated with Distinction
  Dean's Award for excellent results in academic year 2005/2006

  Activities and Societies:

  Winter Sports Games Referee

• Coventry University

  BEng , European Engineering , 2005 — 2006

  First Hons
  Final Year Project: J2ME Programming

  Activities and Societies:

  Athletics Society

Additional Information

Martin Radlak’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company

Martin Radlak’s Interests:

Member of Coventry Godiva Athletics Club (Running). Competing in number of regional, district and national competitions (individual races, team relays). Target: to run London Marathon in less than 3hrs at the age of 27. Extreme Sports: Skiing and snowboarding, rock climbing, parachute jumping. Plans to participate in more extreme sports. Founder of a website about healthy living www.spirulina.pl, giving advice to number of people (via phone or email)

Martin Radlak’s Groups:

IEEE
Coventry Godiva Athletics Club,
Conference CASYS 2007 Liege Belgia,
CNEB

•    Wroclaw University of Technology / Politechnika Wrocławska
•    University of Birmingham Alumni and Friends

Martin Radlak’s Honors:

Dean's Award for excellent performance during 4th academic year at Wroclaw University of Technology

Martin Radlak’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch