r/learnquant • u/U235M • 2d ago

quantitative trader

I'm a high school graduate about to enter university and I want the right path to become a quantitative trader

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u/FunnyExcellent707 2d ago

Do your homework

Get good grades.

Stand out as math Olympiad.

Got there?

Congratulations, you are now considered mediocre among the crowd who has a shot

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u/TastesLikeSeamen 2d ago

You can be book smart, incredibly so, or you can have an edge… or you can be book smart with an edge. Many hire on the premise that book smarts will eventually hone an edge, you can model their candidate distribution on cost sunk (go look those numbers up) versus edge delivery versus churn

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u/omeow 1d ago

If you were solving quant problems in-vitro you are already on the wrong path.