The Barriers to Entry to Become a Quantist

There's a lot of industry forces in finance which push towards secrecy and push towards not sharing what you have. In the traditional business model your activities are highly dependent on your ideas being new, unique and that nobody else can figure them out. It is incredibly rare for a firm to open up that intellectual property in any way That is kind of firms lifeblood in many cases. If you're not already in that community You just might not even have any idea have to be done. There's so many sticking points that you can get stuck on when you're trying to do this on your own.