Data Scientist turning Quant (I)— Why I became an Algo Trader

Jonas Schröder
12 min readOct 23, 2022
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In short, I am a data scientist by trade and my investment portfolio turned from great, thanks to the 10-year bull market rally, to not-so-great. I am naive and assume that using the tools I use every day in my job could have prevented my returns to go down the gutter.

My quest is to learn from my mistakes and to investigate if I can predict the stock market…

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Jonas Schröder

Writes about how #AI and #ML applications help in different fields like #Finance and #Marketing. Data Scientist at Otto GmbH