Forget the middle-aged belt-and braces stockbroker who 'knows' a good stock. Ignore the 5-star tech analysts who never saw a startup he didn't like (with your money). Meet 25-year-old math PhD Sam Barnett, CEO of SBB Research - a quant hedge fund - who, instead of wild extrapolations and Keynesian hockey-sticks, trades the market by "using data to mine information before it is encoded into the markets."
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While several of the CNBC team flounders to show why their commissions are worth it, and why a 25-year-old could not possibly 'know' anything, we for once agree with their premise - this IS the future of trading - 25-year-old math PhDs mining data faster than a fat finger can press buy.
