Meet the DIY Quants Who Ditched Wall Street for the Desert
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In the high desert plain of New Mexico, Roger Hunter monitors automated trades on hog futures and currency pairs.
Four computer screens display a dizzying array of price charts and program codes in the office of his single-story, thatched adobe home in the town of Las Cruces. Out back, where scrub brush stretches into the arid plain between the nearby mountains and the Rio Grande, is a 50-foot-tall wireless Internet tower.