Software Engineer → Quant

18-month roadmap · ~20 hrs/week · self-directed

Months 1–3

Foundation Reset

Math, Stats & Python for Finance

15–20 hrs/week

You can code, but quant work demands fluency in the mathematical language underneath. This phase fills the gaps without wasting time on what you already know.

Phase Milestone

You can load any stock's price history, compute returns, plot distributions, and explain what a p-value means in the context of a trading signal. You know what an order book looks like.