Career Mobility for a Quant : Trading, Private Equity and beyond..

[Qivec]

Hello,

I was wondering what sort of career mobility there is for someone working as a front office quant, say, a high frequency trader or someone developing and trading derivatives?

Would Private Equity be an option? Is it possible to move into other trading roles, such as working at a commodity trading house? What other exit options are there?

 

[StevenChen]

As far as I know, Private Equity is most involving firm asset pricing. Why will you think it is a exit opportunity for who has a trading job?
BTW, are you a trader?

 

[Ken Abbott]

Private equity is a completely different business. The skillset overlap is minimal.