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Will AI replace Trading Researcher jobs? · Latest report #9zyn5g9g
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June 6, 2028
In 1 year, 7 monthsYou model the market; we model you getting replaced by it.
Junior Quant (mostly Python, entirely over-caffeinated)
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
Mining inefficiencies until the market is flat.
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backtests a decade of data every minute
You hunt for alpha by crunching massive datasets and writing predictive signals. Then you argue with engineers.
The one thing AI can't do
You can intuitively sense when a correlation is a statistical artifact rather than real money.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 4
Sensors and scripts scrub your messy data before you arrive.
Month 4
An agent generates signals faster than you can write loops.
Month 8
Cloud clusters run every possible parameter combination without your ego.
Month 13
The system pushes profitable signals straight to the exchange gateway.
Month 19 · D-Day
The market becomes perfectly efficient and you are no longer needed.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 96.6%
4.2 liters
Coffee consumption per alpha
82 percent
Time spent debugging Python
3 days
Stale signal decay rate
Your severance
A one-way ticket to a non-compete enforced island.
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