On My Way: A Day in the Life of a Quantitative Trader

Ever wondered what trading on the stock market is really like? Watch this video to learn more about the tools, methods, and skills a quant trader deploys to understand and take on the stock market!

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[Dr_No]

Besides being mathematically/statistically inclined, the No 1 and most important skill: **Resilience**. In order to be a successful trader you need to let go of the emotional luggage that both large losses, and even extraordinary gains, can naturally generate. Mindfulness practices (meditation) might help you build that 'resilience muscle' and be invaluable if you want to be a successful trader. You can't focus on your current trading strategy if you still have 'lingering emotional thoughts' about your last trade.

[jamesgohigh]

in a real quant trading firm, he is more like an operational trader role. In real quant trading firm, quant trader spends time researching into mathematical model and execution algorithm, backtesting them rather than spend most of the time doing the actual trading.

[dac]

Its a hard journey. Math degree certainly helped me. Followed by msc financial mathematics. Those were foundation for me and then rest was self learning. You have to stay consistant and put work in every day. I worked for a investment management firm but was not directly in trading and used to trade my own account every day for 2 years barely breaking evening. At that point I found my niche area - oil market and natural gas, slowly building my own portfolio up from about $8, 000 to just over $60, 000 in 8 months. From there have managed to build it profitable most months over last 3 years and currently at just under $3. 5 million. Plan is to go full time and leave my job when am at $5 million with goal of getting to $20 to 30 million or so to retire

[gsp_ram]

As a quant, i dont care about R or Phyton, only focus on math, excel is everything for our models, automation is different part of this game.

[WelseyWalker]

How does this trading stuff work? I'm really interested but I just don't know how it go about it. I heard people really make it huge trading..

[irshviralvideo]

FYI to all, this guy makes about 1.2-1.3 USD a year. The average quant trader makes about 1-3M USD a year with top guys making over 20M USD by the time they hit 30. Just FYI to all.

[tkzslwd]

The key to trading is the element of time which many people don't have any idea, keep you risked fixed no trade that offer less then 1:2 r. 😅

[Mayor]

I HAVE INCURRED SO MUCH LOSSES TO TRADE ON MY OWN, I TRADE WELL ON DEMO BUT I THINK THE REAL MARKET IS MANIPULATED.

[Brandon]

The launch of a Bitcoin ETF, in my opinion, marked a turning point for the financial markets. I wouldn't normally buy and retain assets, but after spending over $300, 000 eight months ago, it pleases me that this is still happening. Now that a bull run is almost here, I have no doubts that I will get back all I lost.

[Combatant_Gentleman]

Today I found out I was a quant trader. Neat

[bullvsbear]

Where can we start, I always wanted to learn Quant trading, not looking for a quick Cash to make but for a serious skill to be learned and years of practice

[kk]

There is only one Quant hedge fund that does really well and it runs with the IBM system that is back in the 90s, long before having up to date programming languages. Other than that a lot of So called Quants can't even make it in the long run.

[iskkarate]

what about derivatives and leverage? this would be the only cause of stress

[Farisq]

what is the highest return quantization platform available now??

[SW-fypq]

Between target school and degree major, which one is more valued by employers for a quant role in Singapore? Does BSc in Data Science at LSE have a chance to break into this industry? What degree majors would you recommend to someone with interest in Quant/IB but without Further Maths in A level? Thx.

[rajibk]

What software is he using to do Trade, ADL, Backtest activities?

[paritoshkr]

That was a trading technology terminal and ADL. Brajgopal is way ahead of you guys.

[davontawilliams]

Should I become a quant if I don’t like math ? What is the benefits of it ?

[bigdaddy]

What is the smartest degree to have to break into, Economics?

[dylanflowang]

Do quant traders use fundamental analysis and tools like Bloomberg terminal like hedge funds, institutions and banks do? Or is quant trading a different trading strategy altogether? Seems very different from the conventional trading using economics rather than statistics from what I understand