This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Varun Goyal, a 25-year-old AI startup engineer, based in California. It's been edited for length and clarity. In 2022, I was standing at the ...

Stock trading is always a risky affair, and the standard practice involves continuous monitoring, analysis with gut feeling. While this works for most people, there are other ways to reap revenue from ...

The emergence of artificial intelligence is forcing a lot of people, companies, and even whole industries to rethink the way they fundamentally operate. One such industry is the financial industry and ...

Competition for top quant talent has never been stiffer, especially as AI labs enter the fray. Technical brilliance matters, but other skills required to succeed are often overlooked. Execs from firms ...

As far as Hayden Burgoyne is concerned, picking stock market winners is hardly rocket science. And he should know. Burgoyne is a NASA engineer who spends his days plotting a mission to explore the ...

Less than a third of quantitative trading firms believe their front-office infrastructure can handle the volumes expected by the end of the decade, according to Acuiti’s latest report. As market ...

In recent years, quantitative (quant) trading has gone from mysticism to being part of the everyday vocabulary of capital markets. The rapid proliferation of algorithmic trading together with trends ...

Discover how quantitative analysts, or quants, use advanced mathematical models to predict market trends and identify lucrative investment opportunities.

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