Do Quant traders have an edge over retail traders

[nithin]

@hari_kannan

what are your views on quantitative trading. Do they have an edge over retail traders? Did you ever swing trade during your time as a trader(curious to know)

I had answered similar question earlier

Concern about effect of Algo trading

Answered this earlier, A program is only as good as the programmer behind it, who is again a human. If you try to trade high frequency or other such strategies where latency (faster spotting the trade and execution) is important, you’d definitely lose out to a program. But if not, manual trading still works and will maybe continue working for a while. That said, even before computers and programs, all manual strategies also had the same issue of not working with time as more people adopted i…