> 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 qua

> 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.