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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by jason_slack on Friday February 02, 2018 @08:20AM (#16290300)
Can you share how much computing power is needed to have a bot (or several) automating trading?
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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by SirLJ on Friday February 02, 2018 @09:26AM (#16290679)
Not much to be frank, as this is not a HFT related, so basically any linux VPS will do, (I have a few around the world for redundancy)
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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by jason_slack on Friday February 02, 2018 @10:10AM (#16291072)
and if it becomes an HFT situation?
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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by SirLJ on Friday February 02, 2018 @11:09AM (#16291614)
for HFT, you'll need millions for infrastructure, co locating servers in the stock exchanges, etc... definitely not one man life style business...
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