Yeah its funny, I still read outrage about those greedy "HFT players", as if HFT was still highly relevant. It was a blip in time of the financial markets when no one had high speed trading but a few. The alpha has been washed away.

"c[1] is a bitch" - most HFT quants past few years

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light

> The alpha has been washed away.

whats that mean?

so what are quants on the street doing now?

Quant !== HFT

whats the diff? What are people working on hft solutions called then?