Quant Enthusiasts
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The Comp Negotiation Nobody Teaches: What You Can Actually Push For in a Quant Offer
Base salary moves in $10,000 increments. The clauses underneath it move in six figures.
The distance between what an uninformed candidate signs and what a prepared one signs runs past $100,000 in the first year alone. Almost none of that g...
What Actually Gets You Cut in Your First Year: The Real Failure Modes at a Pod Shop
Median tenure is 1.8 years at Point72 and 2.3 at Millennium. These are the mechanisms behind those numbers.
Millennium hired roughly 160 portfolio managers in a single year while already running 330+ staffed pods. The firm describes annual...
The Quant Pay Ladder: Every Rung From Intern to $10M PM, With the Real Numbers at Each Level
Optiver pays $11,250 a week. Millennium pays 15% of P&L. Every number in between.
Optiver pays a PhD quant research intern roughly $11,250 per week. A Millennium portfolio manager keeps roughly 15% of the P&L their pod produces.
The Career Where You Can Earn $2M a Year and Still Be Considered a Failure
An 18% payout on $11m of net P&L looks like success and reads internally as a hiring mistake
A portfolio manager who takes home $2m at a large multi-manager platform has, in most cases, just finished a year bad enough to cost them the seat...
One Losing Day in 1,238: The Arithmetic Behind Traders Who Never Lose
Virtu disclosed a 50.4% per-trade win rate and one losing session in five years. The mechanism has nothing to do with prediction.
Virtu Financial told the SEC that between January 2009 and December 2013 it recorded one losing trading day a...
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