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What kind of quant?

Trading huge equity portfolios and getting paid a lot? Pretty fun

Pricing structured products all day in a bank that charges you for lunch? Not great

I don't think quants actually trade, though? Like the division of labor usually separates research, code, and trading. Unless you start your own sole prop quant trading shop, which is fun but unless you're the next Jim Simons it can be pretty hard to do it profitably.

if you are doing equity statarb, its all low touch strategies, so yes the quants 'trade' in that they can write the strategies. The traders in that environment are more like support, usually.

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