Hey Have you seen this questions of what a amateu quant is? One comment of this is quite good found here ?
Amateur Quants are unskilled, unprofessional with no expertise & adequate knowledge. They are rookies. Just like a amateur trader who trades chart patterns, moving averages crosses etc.
This comment among others is found in my Facebook Quant programming group.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/quantlabsnet/
Article found here
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-06-17/diy-quant-models-are-the-hot-new-thing-for-chinese-investors
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