How to Use quant in a Sentence

quant

noun
  • The quants have beaten the spread in 10 of the last 14 Super Bowls.
    Josh Petri, Bloomberg.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Trend-chasing quants post the worst returns in 17 years.
    Bloomberg.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Not since the early adapters and the quants learned that much of the orthodoxy of hitting was stone-cold wrong.
    Tom Verducci, SI.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The quants and their algorithms may have taken over Wall Street.
    Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
  • But that doesn’t mean the quants aren’t doing something valuable.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 13 June 2023
  • Wells Fargo's quants think the Patriots will win the Super Bowl.
    Josh Petri, Bloomberg.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • JPMorgan quants say risks are growing for a bond short-squeeze.
    Joanna Ossinger, Bloomberg.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Other banks that built a following with quants were damaged as well.
    Hugh Son, Bloomberg.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The players who had qualified weren’t all oddball quants and gamblers.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2016
  • Really, though, how did the quant put that together so quickly?
    refinery29.com, 4 June 2018
  • For some quants, comfortable in the world of numbers but not metaphors, this might prove intimidating.
    Chris Ballard, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Here’s what one of the world’s top quants has to say about how robots are taking over global financial markets, and his great hopes for the technology.
    Amy Gunia / Hong Kong, Time, 21 Dec. 2019
  • In the 40 years that have passed since James published his first treatise on baseball statistics, the debate between the quants and the traditionalists has been dour and joyless.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2017
  • Girardi wanted to bench the slumping slugger, while Cashman and his quants suggested Carter deserved a longer leash.
    Alex Putterman, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Picking stocks well enough to beat the overall market is very difficult, even for super-smart Wall Street quants who spend hours a day poring over data and staring at Bloomberg machines.
    Thomas Heath, Washington Post, 19 July 2019
  • Meanwhile, in another building elsewhere, Taylor is grooming her quants to be Axe 2.0.
    refinery29.com, 4 June 2018
  • About 10 years ago Facebook created a team of engineers, product managers and quants whose sole job was to identify all the things that convinced users to spend time on Facebook and tell their friends about it.
    Fred Vogelstein, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2018
  • One quantitative analyst, or quant, estimates the failure rate in live tests at about 90%.
    Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2019
  • After enjoying a record-breaking year betting against bonds—hoping to profit from rising yields and interest rates—some quants are nearly back to square one.
    Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Managers are the game’s aristocrats, powerless next to the Ivy League quants who have become the faces of their franchises but comparatively divine.
    Chris Jones, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Three years ago quant funds became the largest source of institutional trading volume in the American stockmarket (see chart 2).
    The Economist, 5 Oct. 2019
  • The event serves as an annual showdown among investors who rely on computer models and are known as quants, professional...
    Gregory Zuckerman, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Pump-and-dump stock schemers could create an A.I. stock-picker that writes false analyst reports, thus triggering automated quants to sell and causing flash crashes in the market.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 25 May 2018
  • My mantra to support the poets and not just the quants coming from Deming’s data (and my personal belief) that writing and communication skills, problem solving and the ability to work in a team are the keys to success.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Today, hedge funds and other quantitative, or quant, investors are the market’s largest players, controlling 31% of all stock trading, inspired by the success of Simons and his colleagues.
    Gregory Zuckerman, Quartz, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Elsewhere within Point72, Mr. Cohen has tried to blend quant and fundamental approaches.
    Gregory Zuckerman, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Behind the models employed by quants are algorithms, or investment recipes, that automatically buy and sell based on pre-set inputs.
    Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2018
  • Activist investors have long employed big data, a team of quants and high-speed computers to find vulnerable boards to bully and cajole into changing strategy.
    Adrian Croft, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2020
  • On many trading floors, quants are gaining respect, clout and money as investment firms scramble to hire mathematicians and scientists.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 22 May 2017
  • In addition, our API and technology products are designed to be user-friendly and accessible to a wide range of investors, from prop traders to large financial institutions, and from quants to the non-tech savvy trader.
    Gary Drenik, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023

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