I do frequent there often. I think they provide a good service in the sense of "here are some things to think about the state of the financial...
Straight from college, sure. Professional finance unfortunately involves a lot of inanities like wrestling with data or some process or script or...
It's hard to take lists like these as anything more than a gimmick. I have worked in hedge funds and on the buy side for a long time (risk mgmt)....
Hi, What did you switch to from IB? Presumably you're enjoying better margins there right?
sorry for nor replying earlier, yes that one.
Besides higher leverage, potential for strong one way trades, larger risk appetites, carry clipping (with its inherent dangers as mentioned above)...
You could do a lot worse than reading Gatheral's book. Unfortunately, to dabble with vol surfaces, and especially to understand "different...
you don't really need to go back to school to get into institutional trading. What you need is an internship. For that you usually need an "in"....
Experienced folks sure, but that doesn't sound right for noobs. No entry level quant will get 400K guarantees.
Hmmm... STEM fields are not necessarily the only way to be an institutional trader, which is what I am interpreting as a 'professional trader'...
This is a pretty wide question. There can be a variety of entry level quants at a fund. Pricing quants, trading quants, risk quants, research...
Well written. though it often is not worth getting into all this it pains to read Keynesian vilification when it is not even properly applied...
I was in on this from about 2040 to about 2020. Obviously on hindsight got out a little early but I was getting nervous about intervention at that...
I have been in professional risk mgmt for a long time and I have seen independent traders making that kind of money. Yes I know some...
Indeed that is the question. Assuming this in from the pov of a strategy one wants to trade and not invest in, if after controlling for small...
I assume the question is directed to me. The speed aspect I am certain of. A look through tick data of the two markets will convince you too I'm...
Stocks digesting news faster than fx is backwards. There is nothing faster than fx. As to how long a momentum ignition effect like this takes to...
that literally made me giggle.
Pension fund assets are still gargantuan, no? ;-)
Why does it matter what is the right philosophy or the wrong. I would think whether your pnl is red or black is the only thing that matters in a...
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