[chronic7490]

> Most quants work on the sell-side where direct forecasting is almost irrelevant

Those aren’t real quants. Even the sell-side quants know they aren’t real quants. For those unfamiliar, sell-side quants typically work at banks like Goldman, HSBC, JPMorgan, etc.

The real quants are buy-side quants/traders: prop shops, hedge funds, endowment/pensions funds, etc.

[mhh__]

Why would someone working as an algorithmic market maker on the sell-side not be a "real" quant? I work on the buy-side for the record.