r/quant

199k members
r/quant is a subreddit with 199k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses quant, struggling, interview, job, and strategy, and they frequently recommend/review vendors.
A subreddit for quantitative analysts

Popular Themes in r/quant

#1
Solution Requests
: "statistical arbitrage project - need help"
5 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "How do market makers price options? (In depth)"
4 posts
#3
Ideas
: "Looking for ideas for the next version of my low-latency C++ project"
2 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "feel like i fucked my career (mid level)"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/quant

#1

Quant

: "I'm stuck in Quant trading"
18 posts
#2

Struggling

6 posts
#3

Interview

: "Small Quant firm Interview"
5 posts
#4

Job

3 posts
#5

Strategy

3 posts
#6

Crypto

: "Crypto Firms for QD"
3 posts
#7

Statistical Arbitrage

: "Statistical Arbitrage project - need help"
3 posts
#8

Project

: "statistical arbitrage Project - need help"
3 posts
#9

Data

2 posts
#10

Python

2 posts

Products Discussed in r/quant

Vendors

1 review
#1
First Rate Data
5.0 from 1 review

Flair Used in r/quant

#1
General
: "Workplace Social Media Rules"
24 posts
#2
Career Advice
: "feel like i fucked my career (mid level)"
21 posts
#3
Industry Gossip
: "Two Millennium Trading Pods Made About $3.7 Billion Last Month"
13 posts
#4
Education
: "Ex-Citadel PM breaks down 'Factors for Fundamental Investors'"
9 posts
#5
Data
: "Trump Media pitched $100,000 monthly fee for fastest feed of US president's posts"
8 posts
#6
Models
: "Architectures for HFT ML/DL"
8 posts
#7
Hiring/Interviews
: "QRT Paris VS Headlands Tech Chicago"
7 posts
#8
Trading Strategies/Alpha
: "How do tier-1 HFTs generate micro-alpha ideas and validate backtests?"
7 posts
#9
Market News
: "Truth Social to sell trading firms 'fastest' access to Trump's posts"
6 posts
#10
Resources
: "Millennium vs Citadel AUM"
6 posts

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Yearly
+53k members(36.0%)

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Last updated: July 21, 2026