There's another way that hasn't really been mentioned yet, and that's to work for yourself via your own quantitative trading system or through Quantopian's cro

There's another way that hasn't really been mentioned yet, and that's to work for yourself via your own quantitative trading system or through Quantopian's crowdsourced hedge fund (https://www.quantopian.com/managers https://www.quantopian.com/managers). Disclaimer: I'm an employee there