Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street

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Quants are said to be mathematical wizards or computer programming experts behind crashin Wall Street with their financial products. We very well know that how our global finanacial system is totally depended on mathematical models, and even here Quants are the one’s who with another technological revolution in finance are trading at the speed of light.

We always think about risks of treating the economy and it’s markets as a complex machine. It’s important for us to know if we would be able to keep a control of our model based financial system or not.

This documentary offers some insight into the question: “what is a quant?” and gives a rare glimpse into this arcane corner of Wall Street and global financial markets.

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