A lot of the time, you’d just be wasting the developers time. In finance the research quants are going to have to test and explore dozens of ideas before even o

A lot of the time, you’d just be wasting the developers time. In finance the research quants are going to have to test and explore dozens of ideas before even one is suitable enough to actually deploy in production. It doesn’t make sense for the quant and developer to work closely together in C++ or whatever when there’s a high likelihood that the trading idea doesn’t work in the first place. Also, the quant often isn’t good enough at computer science to actually develop a production system himself. And even if he was good enough, it isn’t his comparative advantage so he probably should be focusing on research.