Quant trading's most lucrative programming language (you never heard of it)

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In today's video I interview Jeremy Lucid. Jeremy programs in one of the most niche and lucrative programming languages in the world of quantitative trading. While most have never heard of it, all large banks and cutting-edge financial institutions are demanding ever larger amounts of developers proficient in this language (despite their continued shortage). The full uncut version is available for my patrons (link below).

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00:00 video intro
00:33 introducing jeremy
01:05 what is kdb+?
03:53 why q?
05:06 what is a kdb+ developer?
08:55 what made you pursue becoming a kdb+ developer?
10:45 how does q compare to other programming languages?
12:25 where is kdb+ most impactful in quant trading?
14:20 what is a day-in-the-life look like for a kdb+ developer?
17:37 how does the role of a kdb+ developer differ from a quant dev or software engineer?
18:58 compensation
23:45 how has specializing in kdb+ impacted your career?
25:35 what will the future hold for kdb+? Is it worth learning today?
27:30 what are resources can I use to learn kdb+?

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I was looking into Q n kdb back in 2018 when I completed fin trading certificates. We used python and the boilerplate setup was too cumbersome. So it makes sense. I will be la7nching a channel for it soon

RealEvangelizer

Apache Cassandra and Kafka can do time series and have bigger Dev networks. For ultra low latency why not C++ over kdb+ ? I can see factors like time to market and built in domain specific features would give kdb an edge. I can argue He chose kdb because he close to kc systems. I can’t see how much more simpler to run a calculateVWAP could be on q vs. c++. Reporting and integration is a plus, ok. You basically have a stack like c++, Kafka, redis, influxDB, zeromq, etc, etc. built into kdb+. That’s a plus haha

Honestly I would have to take it for a spin. Great video, glad to see coding-J is back !

daveczerepak

HOLY SHIT CODING JESUS IS BACK FROM THE DEAD LET'S GOO

WarriorStatue

What Jeremy wants to say with "trust" is "legacy". Also $20k/CPU core/year. "Trust". Also $150k/year is a python/Rust dev working on API connections. Let alone sbdy specializing in an obscure tech.

trendingtopicresearch

i must be some array based language like APL or J or Q
they are good at processing large volumes of data efficiently

EkShunya

late to here, I am a kdb+ developer in a hedge funds too

jkli

OCaml, they teach it at some elite Operations research and CS programs like Princeton and UPenn

thinkingcitizen

I guess it cant be COBOL or Fortran cause people heard of it idk

dankkush

Hello do you think day trading futures or stocks is worth it ? Or focus should go into other things ?

Boomchickapow

I can't see any juniuor kdb role. If I have already some years of experince as a backend dev, how can i pivot to KDB?

psyvatordarkpsy

great content as always! by the way, would love to see more coding videos with C# as it's easier to follow along for me than C++ code.

Bagrat-III

I want to learn this quant trading from the scratch.
Any pointers ?

Joy-kwpn

It's K or KDB ( didnt watch vid yet )

abeard

I'm inclined to agree with this. It's something I've independently pondered about.. but in the spirit of basic intelligence, there are a lot of leaps being made here.
Making sense is not a prerequisite for truth.

uncleswell