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More Forgotten Quantitative Research Skills

Revisiting the Post from Last Friday

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Sofien Kaabar, CFA
Mar 27, 2026
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When people think about quantitative research, they usually picture math-heavy work.

Stochastic calculus. Machine learning. Feature engineering. Large datasets and complex models. And those things do matter.

But after spending time around quant researchers, data scientists, and systematic traders, you start to notice something else. The researchers who co…

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