Why is Quant Trading becoming a popular career option in investment banking?


📍What's Quantitative trading?
QT is different from traditional trading strategy. QT utilizes mathematical functions to automate trading models. Plus, use back-tested data to test on different trading scenarios & find out the opportunities to make $$ out of it. It can handle more than ten thousands of securities at a time ➡️very efficient

📍The value of Quant Trader
The value of Quants is that ➡️they are able to design trading strategy, ➡️have both bits of knowledge on Finance & Coding, ➡️provide instructions to IT developer for programming the codes (there are times that some Quants who's very gd at these areas might even become Quant Developer!). Furthermore, ➡️they'll be asked to check the codes that were developed by the IT developers & run tests with data to ensure the QT Strategies designed are accurate

📍Why is it popular in the trading industry?
The benefit of QT is that using backtested data could help the Trader on decision making & reduce the negative impact of Traders’ emotions when making a decision, i.e. lower the chances of making irrational decisions due to panic

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