@Matias Sanchez Wilson it's definitely hectic and you can't escape statistics and programming, I'd suggest you try it out you'll end up loving statistics, i studied BSc Mathematics and Computer Science, i only did statistics while training, so go for it, learn-unlearn-relearn

sure grootman i'm looking into this career does having honours have a significant role though in terms of career growth i'm in BSc Hons Physics and Applied Maths

@@lwandogomomo1388 Yes, but nowadays a masters speaks more volumes than just hons. If you really want to pursue this career a masters degree in quantitative/computational/mathematical finance will set you on the right path, provided you're willing to do a bit of self study in statistics and real/complex analysis

Not in a disrespectful way sir, but can u pls tell me the average pay for a junior quant, im currently in matric and planning on studying mathematical and statistical science, to become a quant

Yeah, but data science applied to finance is basically a type of quant finance.

@@jesusdanielmartinezgarcia8883 can step into this field with comp science also our math stream is needed

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Where are you studying financial engineering? I aspire to be a quant

@@dimphomabasa ​ check uct, up, stellen, uwc, nwu. they offer financial engineering/computational finance fron honours

There are many different quants out there. They cannot all be traders. Do your research on the subject

@@lebomoneo9221 do you ever know what is quant ? what they do, didn't even involve Financial Markets , and the "trade" was ironical because there's few quant let's say one that actually TRADE.

​@@ivoriankoua3916 I don't understand what you're trying to say. But this are financial data analysts = quants in a financial firm

@@lebomoneo9221 I was refering to your pseudo quant in this video , if you ever know what a quant is , you obviously shouldn't reply telling me they're "different quant".....

@@ivoriankoua3916 HAHA u got jokes. These are quants period, deal with it. When I say "different quants" I'm referring to quantitative positions within financial firms like your quantitative trader, researcher, financial engineer, developer, derivatives pricing and risk management. These guys deal with financial models on a day to day basis, they collect and use a variety of data to develop trading algorithms and computer models... You hearing the first guy talking about analytics(the systematic computational analysis of data or statistics) and making your assumptions is bordesome. It's obvious your definition of what a quant is, is different to mine(care to share what they involved if not financial markets?).

They do accept foreigners