Quants

A quantitative analyst or a quant is a person who specializes in the application of mathematical and statistical methods to understand and predict the behavior of the financial markets. Quantitative analysts aim to represent a given market situation in terms of numerical values.

Quants are required to have quantitative skills in the field of mathematics of multivariate calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, probability theory, statistical inference, econometrics and the knowledge of programming languages such as C, python etc.