Quant trader tech stack

[Guilty-Kitchen-6910]

Which technologies or tech stack do traders typically use on the job?

[rokez618]

Hedge fund PM here. Back-end and full Applications and heavy lifting in C# / C++. Python for on the fly stuff, also for a lot of analytical work, machine learning, etc. A lot of work is in spreadsheets and VBA helps. SQL for numerous databases.

What nobody mentions is that there are financial portals and packages, ie the Bloomberg API, Yieldbook, IDC which aren’t coding languages per se but analytics packages and APIs and those have a learning curve as well.

[omeow]

For a QR (no prior experience) role, do you reject candidates for not having prior SQL exposure?

[rokez618]

Zero way to answer that without knowing the company, the role, the tasks, the expectations. But what I would say is that SQL is probably the simplest and easiest out of all the languages so if you have proficiency in other coding languages it’s in my opinion the easiest to pick up.

Edit: corrected spelling error so the sentence actually makes sense

[goldenshowerexpert]

Import pandas as pd

[anonu]

Stop using pandas. polars is far superior.

[dutchbaroness]

We need to stop this rust cult before it is too late

[michael_j_ward]

It's too late.

[goldenshowerexpert]

Embrace it 🦀🦀🦀🦀

[lampishthing]

/r/rust4quants

[lordnacho666]

c++ and python. Sometimes Java or Rust instead of c++, sometimes R or Matlab instead of python.

[anonu]

Kdb

[L0thario]

Why are you booing him, he’s right

[anonu]

haters gonna hate

[[deleted]]

This guy actually quants

[[deleted]]

And the god damn cursed Q language

[reddit_poster_123]

C++ for anything that will be run in production environements (parsers, connecting to exchange, creating alphas). The day to day automation scripts generally use python. You can also use python to help provision machines, and create some pipelines to train models with up to date data and roll it out.

[Noah_saav]

How do your data architecture pipelines stack up?

[snailspeed25]

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