# Quant-Arena: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Quantitative Trading Research > Source: > Published: 2026-10-22 16:00:17+00:00 Quantitative research is an iterative loop: a researcher proposes a market hypothesis, implements it as an executable signal, tests it on historical data, and decides what to keep. Existing benchmarks score formulas, code, or individual trading decisions, leaving open whether large language models (