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melling on May 21, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Quants Run Wall Street Now

What languages are quants using to build their models? R, Python, Java, Haskell? Are there any favored tools?

jessriedel on May 21, 2017 | [–]

Trading firm Jane Street is well known for using OCaml.

https://blogs.janestreet.com/why-ocaml/

jzwinck on May 21, 2017 | | [–]

Major ones include R, Python, Matlab, and K/Q, roughly in that order of current popularity. Matlab used to have more marketshare and Python less.

latenightcoding on May 22, 2017 | [–]

Most is C++

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