Where to start as a quant? It's extremely simple.

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Before you go into linear algebra, before you learn c++, before you read into financial market theory.

Learn python. There are some books like "Learn Python the Hard Way" by Zed Shaw that make it extremely accessable.

When you're done with the book take any exchange, set up an API key and try to get market data. If you get market data make a simple moving average cross signal indicator.

Now, if you read that and think "damn I don't know shit about all that"

Or "I don't know where to get the information how to do it" AND are demotivated because of that:

Trust me - quantitive finance is not your field. This feeling of: "what in the actual fuck am I even doing" won't ever fade. I does not matter how advanced you become in your

Specific field.

If you thrive under that feeling, if you want to explore, if you want to learn what you don't understand, if you can't stop thinking about solving these unknown problems, it just doesn't matter if you're in your freshman year or a 40 year old with a family.

Also it doesn't matter that your knowledge in this field is at an absolute minimum.

Go into Quant Finance!

Quantitive finance has the 25 years old geeks as well as 40 year old lateral entrants. It's a beautiful field even tho it is, still today, not as glamorous as

traditional finance. We're still the geeks if the finance world.

We make models, not price targets.

Hope I could help and also push you a bit.