A "Quantitative Analyst Salary" starts at 100k/year. Trying to build a trading system is like trying to invent the next 10x battery technology could end up gol

A "Quantitative Analyst Salary" starts at 100k/year. Trying to build a trading system is like trying to invent the next 10x battery technology could end up golden dust in the end as well. You're distracting people from proper cost benefit analysis and assessment of risk/reward. http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/quantitative-analyst-salary-SRCH_KO0,20.htm http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/quantitative-analyst-salar... Programming getting into high frequency trading is "high risk, higher reward". It would be better to use our Neural Networks to find risk factors for prostate cancer you'll get in 25 years, but the money just isn't there. AKA high risk, low (possibly no) reward.