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Re:Jim Simons has died by mhh__ on Friday May 10, 2024 @12:20PM (#40320747)
When have high frequency traders and quants ever been finance bros? Wut?
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Re:Jim Simons has died by tombert on Friday May 10, 2024 @12:48PM (#40321100)
Again, I was wrong and I acknowledged that, but I guess I grouped HFT and Quants into the same camp as the characters from American Psycho.

They're different groups, I respect them now and feel dumb for not respecting them before.

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Re:Jim Simons has died by kqr on Friday May 10, 2024 @02:29PM (#40322295)
The very early quants (people who did rough mental options math in the Chicago pits in the 1970s) were finance bros by osmosis. You had to be.

It changed at some point during the '80s, probably to no little degree thanks to Renaissance.

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