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  • noun Plural form of quant.

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Examples

  • The new kids on the block became known as "quants" - short for quantitative analysts.

    Dylan Evans: Don't blame gambling for the crisis! Dylan Evans 2011

  • And at Goldman, the "quants" -- mostly failed scientists, the author writes -- were simply there to justify the money-making machine:

    Ex-Goldman Sachs Employee Compares Working At Bank To Being A 'Fluffer' On A 'Porn Set' 2010

  • While Mr. Kerviel burned with a sense of his own worth, Société Générale paid little attention to him or other nuts-and-bolts traders on Delta One and focused instead on nurturing "quants" -- traders with advanced academic degrees who used complex mathematical models to make money for the bank.

    Portrait of rogue trader emerges 2008

  • They're similar to the "quants" - analysts who rocked Wall Street the last decade, except they're focused on mastering the betting systems online.

    IEEE Spectrum 2010

  • Thorp and the people who use such systems have come to be known as "quants" - it's a reference to the quantitative-analysis techniques they employ - and their stories are told in Scott Patterson's new book The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It. here, and read an extract from the book.

    Asymptotia 2010

  • I won't reinvent the wheel to demonstrate that so-called "quants" -- holders of advanced degrees in science or engineering that flooded the financial services industry in the 1990s and 2000s -- bear the ultimate responsibility in the current crisis.

    Fool.com: The Motley Fool 2009

  • Mr. Adoboli worked in UBS's equities division, a business that attracts so-called "quants" skilled in using mathematics and computers to execute high-speed and complex trading.

    UBS Raises Tally on Losses Dana Cimilluca 2011

  • In the process, he blazed a trail followed by a slew of hedge funds that rely on quantitative strategies — so-called quants — such as D.E. Shaw Group, AQR Capital Management and Citadel Investment Group.

    Pioneering Fund Stages Second Act Scott Patterson 2010

  • In the process, he blazed a trail followed by a slew of hedge funds that rely on quantitative strategies — so-called quants — such as D.E. Shaw Group, AQR Capital Management and Citadel Investment Group.

    Pioneering Fund Stages Second Act Scott Patterson 2010

  • In the process, he blazed a trail followed by a slew of hedge funds that rely on quantitative strategies — so-called quants — such as D.E. Shaw Group, AQR Capital Management and Citadel Investment Group.

    Pioneering Fund Stages Second Act Scott Patterson 2010

  • The hedge fund manager’s quantitative researchers (“quants”) use Arctic and MongoDB to research, construct and deploy new trading models in order to understand how markets behave.

    Time Series Data and MongoDB: Part 1 – An Introduction | MongoDB Mark Smith, 2023

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