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For people working in quant / systematic trading:

How is power/energy trading generally viewed as a long-term quant career path?

More specifically, for someone with a PhD + ML/statistical research background trying to enter quantitative research, is power trading considered:
\- a strong entry point into systematic trading/quant research,
\- or a more specialized track that can become limiting later?
\- or it depends on the mission?

I’d be especially interested in perspectives regarding transition opportunities later toward broader systematic hedge funds / HFT / ML-driven quant research roles.

Thanks!

For people working in quant / systematic trading:

How is power/energy trading generally viewed as a long-term quant career path?

More specifically, for someone with a PhD + ML/statistical research background trying to enter quantitative research, is power trading considered:
- a strong entry point into systematic trading/quant research,
- or a more specialized track that can become limiting later?
- or it depends on the mission?

I’d be especially interested in perspectives regarding transition opportunities later toward broader systematic hedge funds / HFT / ML-driven quant research roles.

Thanks!

It seems that not having internship experience can make it harder to get interviews for quant finance roles.

I have a PhD in mathematics and I’m really struggling to get interviews. I’ve noticed that several PhD profiles label supervised university research work or Master’s thesis projects as “Research Internship” or “Academic Internship” on their CVs.

What do people in quant recruiting think about this? Does the “internship” keyword actually help with ATS/recruiter screening, or is the benefit marginal?