Yeah that sounds like complete bullshit to me. I know some top quant traders who make high-six&#x2F;low-seven figure comp consistently at that point in their careers, but they&#x27;re nowhere near able to retire with a comfortable lifestyle, and that&#x27;s an extremely biased sample. For every person like them, 100 others fail early on, 10 stick around making a nice but not much higher than Google salary, and 5 have a couple busy high comp years then get pushed out by greedy management, have their edge eaten by competitors, or quit when the markets slow down.<p>Getting to that level is like making partner in a law firm. You have to do much better than &quot;well&quot; and anyone who gets there would be a fool to retire and likely wouldn&#x27;t want to anyway due to the personality traits&#x2F;defects required to get there in the first place.