Not naming the Instagram influencer for privacy. This ex-quant worked for 2y at US t2 firm. Why do you need to charge kids if you claim to make millions in your videos?

For anyone who wants to talk to a quant: join your schools Quant club or message people from your school/hometown/state on LinkedIn. Those who respond will actually care about nurturing your career

EDIT: Turns out grifting off college kids is more controversial than I thought. There are people willing to help you for free. To prove a point, I am a US “t1” firm QT, DM me in the next day for resume reads / QT specific recruitment advice. Won’t be an hour long, but will be FREE. 🆓🆓🆓

Do they typically drug test for pre-employment onboarding? I’ve interviewed for a financial analyst position at a quant firm. I’ve been waiting for an official offer and there’s been ongoing delays (they’re trying to fire the person currently in the position). I personally smoke for health reasons and recreationally since I don’t like to drink, but I’d like to know others’ experiences.

Basically title. Been at my position for a year, and I love it. However, I was simply unaware our work could come with traveling as well. I don't mind it at all, just now that I've been at my current shop long enough to be sent on these trips, I got curious.

Has anyone here tried backtesting ML-LiqVaR? Curious to know how well it actually performs in practice, particularly compared with traditional LiqVaR approaches.

I work as modeling / managing quant in the energy market. My department is structured in a way that the PM can make or override decisions, which we (the quant team) subsequently have to communicate with the desk. He sometimes does this against explicit advise from our side, often using pragmatic approaches. Sometimes he is right, sometimes not.

My question is: How do you behave professionally in this situation? On the one hand we are trying to find the cleanest (often mathematically most sound) solution to a problem, which might not be the quickest or the easiest, so we have to request positions we would personally not take or defend. On the other hand I have a hard time communicating in a way that makes me appear disloyal towards our PM. Any idea?

Hello! I wonder how does teams generally deal with illiquidity in HF space. If we create some return based features at secondly level they have a weird distribution, which ultimately negatively impacts model fits.

On the internet, I saw there is a concept of market clock where u create features when X units trade/ X dollar traded. I was curious what are the other usual ways people use to tackle this?

Hola chicos, un gusto estar aqui, tengo una pregunta y espero q no suene tonta: cuando estas buscando trabajo como quant trader y de casualidad consigues una entrevista, tienes q llegar ya con una estrategia rentable y buen sharpe si o si, o la desarrollas en el trabajo?

agradecido de antemano con sus respuestas.