The phrase "a quant shop" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a quantitative trading firm or a company that employs quantitative analysis in finance.
Example: "After graduating, she landed a job at a quant shop where she could apply her mathematical skills to trading strategies."
Alternatives: "quantitative trading firm" or "quantitative analysis company".
Though Mr. Simons has retired as head of the "quant" shop, he earned an estimated $2.5 billion last year thanks to investment in the firm's Medallion fund, according to AR magazine.
The shortest short was Harindra de Silva, a finance Ph.D. and the president of Los Angeles quant shop Analytic Investors.
Citadel's quant shop is one of the hedge fund's crown jewels.
He came over to the "quant shop" from UBS Wealth Management, where he served as managing director and head of investment solutions.
Propose a tax plan, and quant shops all over this town will have distribution tables up (showing tax changes by income class) before can say "marginal rate".
And as they sold, other quant shops, like AQR, which held many of the same stocks, saw huge drops instead of small gains.
Drenik: Recognizing that most data scientists realize that you need to start with good quality "alternative data" and let the models follow, what types of new predictive analytics can you envision for large quant shops in the financial services industry?
Last fall students filled a giant classroom at M.I.T. to overflowing for an evening workshop called "So You Want to Be a Quant". Some quants analyze the stock market.
Seven correct answers: You're either Michael Duvally or a quant.
As described by Mark Joshi, a former quant at the Royal Bank of Scotland, in his paper "On Becoming a Quant," subspecies include desk quants, a k a front-office quants, who work directly with traders, and statistical-arbitrage quants (stat-arb quants for short), who plow through mounds of data to find opportunities for automated trading.
