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quant

1 American  
[kwahnt] / kwɑnt /

noun

  1. Business Slang. an expert in quantitative analysis.

Quant 2 American  
[kwahnt] / kwɑnt /

noun

  1. Dame Mary Barbara Mary Quant, 1930–2023, English fashion designer and entrepreneur: often credited as the principal designer of the miniskirt in the 1960s.

quant 1 British  
/ kwɒnt /

noun

  1. a long pole for propelling a boat, esp a punt, by pushing on the bottom of a river or lake

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verb

  1. to propel (a boat) with a quant

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Quant 2 British  
/ kwɒnt /

noun

  1. Mary. born 1934, British fashion designer, whose Chelsea Look of miniskirts and geometrically patterned fabrics dominated London fashion in the 1960s

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quant 3 British  
/ kwɒnt /

noun

  1. informal a highly paid computer specialist with a degree in a quantitative science, employed by a financial house to predict the future price movements of securities, commodities, currencies, etc

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Etymology

Origin of quant

An Americanism dating back to 1985–90; by clipping

Example Sentences

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“With the bullish headlines and sell side updates out today, my sense is that semis have more upside to go and if CES newsflow and keynotes addresses this week are construed as bullish ‘buy the news’ type events, long only and relative managers will have to react and follow this retail, quant semi chase or fear falling behind benchmarks,” writes Mizuho analyst Jordan Klein.

From Barron's

“Our forecasts, in particular for bitcoin, rest on an assumption that investor adoption continues with flows into ETFs of $15 billion boosting token prices,” said analysts led by Alex Saunders, head of global quant macro strategy at the bank.

From MarketWatch

Emanuel Derman is the remarkable author and subject: a Bell Labs-caliber physicist turned Wall Street quant turned professor of financial engineering turned autobiographer.

From The Wall Street Journal

By comparison, an index of stock-picking quant funds compiled by the research firm PivotalPath is up 6.3% this year through November and was down 1.6% in October.

From The Wall Street Journal

Plus: Why ‘buy the dip’ is not that great a strategy — and what works better, according to this quant firm.

From MarketWatch

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