What is Quantitative Finance? ๐ Intro for Aspiring Quants
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So, you used 1k$ to buy 25 stocks of Omega, then you sold omega and bought Alpha. After 3 months you sold Alpha and you have 900$. You started with 1k$ and now you've got 900$. So you've lost 100$, not made 25$. Unless you get these stocks for free. I mean yeah, we still can but omega but then it falls down and eventually we're 1k$ down.
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Insightful hmmm
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Every one thinks quantitative finance is all about pairs trading or arbitrage but it's not true there are other strategies are very good like Trend following, momentum trading etc
Quantitative Finance is not stock picking. It's not vibes-based investing. Itโs math, data, and codeโused to build models, manage risk, and trade intelligently across global markets.
Weโll walk through:
Itโs not an oval. Itโs an ellipse.
- How returns and risk are modeled using probability distributions
- Why correlation and high-dimensional statistics matter
I dig the graphics.
- What pair trading isโand how to profit even when the market goes down
- How portfolios are constructed using optimization
I discovered quantitative trading through the book "Quantitative Analysis of Trading Strategies on the NASDAQ", and it completely changed the way I approach trading. It was a real game changer and opened my mind to a more data-driven and systematic way of trading. Highly recommended for anyone serious about improving their strategy.
This is the real foundation behind quant finance, the kind youโll need to master if you want to work at a hedge fund or trading firmโor build your own.
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0:00 Intro - What do Quants do?
0:46 Return
Great video! Really enjoyed it.
1:34 The bell curve
2:04 Normal Distribution
I have no idea why I am consuming stock trading videos at an alarming rate. I now also know who is buying stolen data
2:37 Mean & Standard Deviation (risk)
3:08 Correlation
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3:16 2D Normal Distributions
3:40 What is our course like?
It would be appreciated if you guide us a little on how to revise all subjects itโs overwhelming & some of us havenโt started mocks yet. Done with LES though. Donโt want any discouragement please*
Rather motivate
3:54 More stocks = more dimensions
4:42 Short selling
You should've mentioned that not all Quants make profits. They all compete with each other to squeeze money out of the market. It doesn't matter how smart Quant you are, you are always exposed to "Luck and Uncertainty".
What you can do is to have different quant strategies with no stock/currency/asset class overlap and allocate your trading capital equally in each, thereby increasing your chances of survival and decreasing your expected returns.
5:15 Pair Trading example
7:55 Portfolio Construction
nice video
8:43 Portfolio Returns
9:00 Objective Function
Fantastic explanation, thank you!
9:32 Portfolio Constraints
9:53 Market Neutral
GOOD
10:16 Trading
10:39 Machine Learning & Alternative Data
Really interesting concept, the way it was explained made it easy to follow and kept me hooked
11:05 High Frequency Trading (HFT)
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Love the content and knowledge but am I the only one who felt really lost near the end?
If youโre serious about becoming a quant, we're building a course that doesn't waste your time. No filler. Just clean code, focused projects, and a deep dive into the tools used by professionals.
Connect with us to learn when the Quantitative Finance course launches:
I am completed my high school i understood 76 % of the video
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im 18 just got graduated from high school this feel so impossible to understand
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Good video
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Can't something like this happen that๐ค๐ค
AI studying all the history and analyses all the stock since day one on earth and predicts
Wouldn't that be more accurate than any human
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Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance
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Really enjoyed this one the pacing and info came through clearly and kept me watching!
The Big Short (movie)
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If that's quant finance thank God I m doing far deep analysis and used to ask myself what quant guys do? Thanks for bringing me out of self doubt.
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Michael Harrison earned his BS in Math from Caltech, and did his graduate work in Math at UC Berkeley and University of Washington, specializing in Number Theory. A self-taught programmer, Michael taught both Math and Computer Programming at the college level. He applied this knowledge as a financial analyst (quant) and as a programmer at Google.
Very well done, appreciate this video!
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That was a really clear explanation! It's awesome to see the foundations of quant finance broken down so accessibly โ it definitely demystifies the field for anyone just starting out. I remember feeling similarly overwhelmed when I first started learning about it.
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And then you forgot to tell that you also pay fees which would take around 10$ profit, pay lender fee ( yes if you are shorting, a lot of brokers will make you pay lender fee, lets say 10% move is usually between 1-3 weeks ) depending on broker it can be up there, taxes and you are left with a 1$ profit. Explanation is nice but reality is different. If you want to make money in stock market this way you also need to understand when there's invalidation of your position to actually cut losses and when to keep stock to not cut in half the momentum it actually started to accelerate. Sure video might have been simplified, but people need to know the truth. Quantitative Finance is great, just not explained this way. Using Quants/Fractals/Synthethic data you can make amazing things AND MAKE A LOT OF MONEY but that explanation is nowhere near the real truth behind trading.
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Lol u complicated stuff in middle unnecessarily. It's quite simple. It's the efficient frontier
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@thetank971Some posts on social media reference the video itself or mention it as an educational resource for understanding quant finance basics.
@sidewinder_0071:45 I legit shouted OH FUCK!
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@HqWealthVenturesthis stuff is so smart and seems like u gotta be some maths and coding genius to do or sum but interesting as hell I think I can do this at 14 trust me guys
@_gen.0Very interesting...
@ImpactEngineerStudioProfessional beings always reach their, own goal.
As past scholars say.
I had post graduation in statistics and never knew its application in quant . Now it's all over as I'm 55 years old ๐ข
@kparag01He merged all the topics of CFA L1 and an entire overview of finance into Quantitative mathematics. Which is basically hard to digest but yet he is trying to say simply, everything in the markets is linked to one another factors, which can be identified through use of stats. Stats is no forecastin game but a tool to analyze this linkings, thats all. Its complicated, yet integrated content of Quant Finance.
@KaranBakhaiAnd in pair trading, you have to find 2 companies in the same industry to compare to eachother so you can long and short them.
@QuickOptimization5:10 its supposed to be sell and wait, you have to sell the share at a higher price to buy it back at the lower price and make profit!
@QuickOptimizationWow
@wealthascendants-l7zDamn, this is so interesting. Imagine the world today. We have tools like AI to create automated trading. The possibilities are endless.๐ฎ
@wnjnrwinston4:57 short selling
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