What Is Quantitative Finance? A Beginner's Guide for Aspiring Quants 📊

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💌 https://snu.socratica.com/quantitative-finance

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙌𝙪𝙖𝙣𝙩?
Quantitative Finance is not stock picking. It's not vibes-based investing. It’s math, data, and code—used to build models, manage risk, and trade intelligently across global markets.

We’ll walk through:
- How returns and risk are modeled using probability distributions
- Why correlation and high-dimensional statistics matter
- What pair trading is—and how to profit even when the market goes down
- How portfolios are constructed using optimization

This is the real foundation behind quant finance, the kind you’ll need to master if you want to work at a hedge fund or trading firm—or build your own.

𝙅𝙪𝙢𝙥 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙨:
0:00 Intro - What do Quants do?
0:46 Return
1:34 The bell curve
2:04 Normal Distribution
2:37 Mean & Standard Deviation (risk)
3:08 Correlation
3:16 2D Normal Distributions
3:40 What is our course like?
3:54 More stocks = more dimensions
4:42 Short selling
5:15 Pair Trading example
7:55 Portfolio Construction
8:43 Portfolio Returns
9:00 Objective Function
9:32 Portfolio Constraints
9:53 Market Neutral
10:16 Trading
10:39 Machine Learning & Alternative Data
11:05 High Frequency Trading (HFT)

𝙄𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖 𝘾𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚?
If you’re 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:
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𝙒𝙀 𝙍𝙀𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙀𝙉𝘿
Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance
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The Big Short (movie)
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𝘼𝘽𝙊𝙐𝙏 our Instructor:
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.

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