Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang An expert in the use of mathematics and related subjects, particularly in investment management and stock trading.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A walking-stick.
- n. A pushing-pole with a flat board or cap at one end to prevent it from sinking into the mud, used by bargemen; also, a jumping-pole, similarly fitted, used in marshes. The name is also given to the cap.
Wiktionary
- n. finance A quantitative analyst.
- n. Quantity.
- n. Quantifier.
- n. A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.
- adj. Quantifiable.
- adj. Quantitative.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.
Etymologies
- Probably short for quantitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“For years, he has been a senior executive overseeing so-called quant trading within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, after helping launch that unit ' s computer-driven investing business in 1989.”
The Wall Street Journal: Quant Veteran to Retire From Goldman
“The so-called quant quake in 2007 hurt funds like Global Alpha as market volatility confounded computer-trading models.”
The Wall Street Journal: Quant Veteran to Retire From Goldman
“And though quants and risk managers played a central role exacerbating last year's financial crisis, 86% of those surveyed indicated their supervisors '"level of understanding of the job of a quant is the same or worse than it was a year ago," and 70% said the same about their institutions as a whole.”
Sen. Ted Kaufman: Breaking Wall Street's Boom, Bailout Cycle
“Today even with the most sophisticated algorithms touted by our best and brightest quants (a quant is a believer in quantitative analysis), the average CTR now reports in at around 0.3%.”
“Across the industry, so-called quant funds have been hit especially hard by the downturn in credit and private-equity markets.”
“So-called quant funds often target stocks that look cheap, based on various measures, and bet against overpriced shares.”
“The group is smaller than the 60-person PDT, which is led by Peter Muller, a so-called quant manager who uses mathematical models to trade securities.”
“This should prove to be quite interesting, either he is the right man for you and you can consign your blog to history or he isn't and you lose a reader, either way at least you get a good dinner, by the way a quant is the group of people employed in financial services to analyse the data for instruments we trade or sell or to analysie the risks generated by such instruments - in effect quants were the people who said to the senior management at places like RBS and Lehmans "don't worry, I've run the numbers and can say with 99% certainty that you wont lose money on this" For some reason quant desks seem to have a large proprtion of Asians, mathmatics degrees are very common, so you might be on comfortable ethnic ground.”
“It was pretty well buried in a blog post by Antonio Garcia-Martinez, a former Goldman "quant" (financial analyst).”
“The firm has attracted at least one long-time "quant" skeptic: famed value investor”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘quant’.
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Q words
Ever get stuck with the random bunch of letters and a q and not know any words? Well, maybe this will help.
quire, quais, quai, queer, quoit, quitrent, quipster, question, quest, questing, quests, quit and 208 more...
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Contemporary character classes?
as a youth I, and some others, made a pen-and-paper RPG, based in contemporary crime and suspense fiction + nonfiction, set in America's blighted urban centers, anonymous slurbs, and godforsaken hi...
acrobat, actor, anarchist, arsonist, artist, bagman, accountant, adrenaline junkie, airplane pilot, anti-racist skinhead, art student, assassin and 192 more...
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phrontistery - q
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qanat, qasida, qat, qigong, qintar, qiviut, qoph, qua, quab, quackle, quacksalver, quad and 227 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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scrabble j q x z 4 and 5 letter words
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New to Me
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bkerr's Words
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madmelanie's Words
monkey, folderol, snark, snarky, flibbertigibbet, faith, asshat, pirouette, avuncular, exegesis, memento mori, verisimilitude and 379 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 848 more...
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discoveries
These are lexical items new to me that I've discovered in actual use (i.e. not in dictionaries, lists, or this site).
Looking back over this list, I haven't the slightest idea what mos...haymow, hawsepipe, stridor, bariatric, autotelic, apotropaic, cyanotype, tourelle, autobody, zudecca, stifado, corbeille and 1073 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Q-Tips
mmm... tasty
qat, maqui, quays, quite, qua, pique, quean, quits, aqua, qaids, queen, quods and 76 more...
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Inspiration Collection
piece of cake, firewater, sweetbrier, artesian, artisan, plenty, figurehead, incendiary, vignette, few, minimalism, NO and 45 more...
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Cultural Caca
Sometimes misleading, often peculiar and technical.
slimming, caca, sku, bogo, prenup, complimentary, sweetener, keeper, painterly, semiautobiographical, hack-a-shaq, upside and 35 more...
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Daily
thaumaturgy, lagniappe, gabble, Cytherean, samizdat, lixiviate, quintal, Rabelaisian, prescind, duende, deglutition, mancinism and 74 more...
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for quant.
reesetee Also: 1. A pole for propelling a barge or punt, typically having a prong or flange at the bottom to prevent it from becoming embedded in mud.
That definition contains a delightful number of fun words.
2. In a windmill: a vertical spindle that transmits the drive from the gearing to the upper of a pair of millstones. Oct 9, 2008