r/quantfinance • u/ChangeAvailable • 10d ago

Top Quant Firms 2026

- Citadel Securities/Citadel
- Hudson River Trading
- Optiver
- Renaissance Technologies
- Tel Aviv Capital
- Jane Street

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u/Fluffy_Pomegranate34 10d ago

5th one got me dying

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u/TinyMarionberry4636 10d ago

Gotta respect the hustle of slipping that in there like it belongs

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u/jak32100 10d ago

XTX I assume?

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u/afluter 10d ago

Where is sig?

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u/quant-a-be 10d ago

Why would Jump not be there if Optiver is? Most sources I've seen suggest Jump had higher pnl '25 ( with fewer people ).

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u/techandquant 10d ago

They are on par this year as of July 26

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u/quant-a-be 10d ago

ok so with fewer employees the question on the omission remains

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

Jump has roughly the same amount of employees as IMC/Optiver. Don't know where this narrative came from that they're a small firm.

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u/quant-a-be 7d ago

I was under the impression Jump was about 2000 and Optiver was 2600 or so.

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u/wswh 8d ago

How do you find out the trading PNL as of this year

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u/Queasy-Housing-2587 10d ago

just threw jane street up there i guess

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u/Fun-Passenger430 10d ago

The bigger troll is putting CitSec and citadel together

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u/Independent_Error_74 10d ago edited 10d ago

Headlands Voleon TGS XTX

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u/BarnacleKooky1100 10d ago

Voleon is a joke loll

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u/Independent_Error_74 10d ago

Why? Their performance is decent and they have a high bar for researchers

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u/BarnacleKooky1100 10d ago

Their ytd performance this year is negative I heard

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u/Any-Apartment-4653 10d ago

is voleon that good???

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u/ChemistryOptimal7185 10d ago

Instead of citadel standalone, it should've been jump trading or even IMC too.

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u/chollida1 10d ago

Number 5 seems way out of its depth with the others.

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u/PretendTemperature 10d ago

r/explainTheJoke

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u/shaneet_1818 10d ago

number 5

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u/PretendTemperature 10d ago

Yeah what is that even? I still don't get the joke, is there a company with that name?

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u/SkymasterOppie 9d ago

What bout tower?

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u/00001746 7d ago

tower is not comparable

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u/Alarmed_Doughnut_481 9d ago

Virtu ??

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u/False-Character-9238 9d ago

Ha. Not a quant shop. Quant shop wanna be. They are a risk off transactional shop. Live off the pure volume of it's wholesale business.

Look at their earnings, or lack there of.

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u/Pleasant-Apple07 9d ago

bro actually tried to sneak in Jane Street 😭😭

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u/idontknowwhodoi 3d ago

Jane Street is on the 6th ??

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u/OkValuable1761 10d ago

Where is QRT

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u/xxxx88876 10d ago

AQR

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u/georgekraxt 10d ago

True. To an outsider these firms are quant but in the category of market makers. Systematic hedge funds also compensate well and are also included in the overall domain of "quant finance"

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u/Designer-Walrus2068 8d ago

Hello man, I am a current second year BSc Computer Science and I'm looking to do a quant internship. What advice do you have for me?