SEC regulation on fund disclosures won't require that every fund hire a compliance officer. It just requires that the funds files the necessary...
Good article ... a couple of observations. One, $60M fund is considered quite small, and he still have 3 staff? That is quite extravagant by my...
Not really, almost all the quants on wall street have to get used to the libraries that have been coded up over the years within the ibank....
I don't know about general, but I know about < 10 analysts and associates. The person who made the least made about 180 last year, he is about 2...
I have never seriously coded in VB (other one or two Excel basic toys), so I have no idea there. For C++, the basic language introduction will...
I think there are a lot of mis-information here. First of all, it is clear that there are both technologists and some analysts in this thread. I...
Let's go through hedge funds, and away from consulting. A fund co-manager I know is paid $150k base, and 30% of the incentive fees on his...
People tend to forget that LTCM had 7 years of tremendous profitability (lowest year was 42%, with very little volatility) before the liquidity...
Yes, your payout scales should be written down. The general paperwork should include the standard account paper works, and a standard agreement...
Can you be a little more specific? I trade the ES (actively) and in 14 months I have never seen a "bad tick'. I get the tick-by-tick data (I am...
You are in the tough bind. Where / when did you get your MBA from? Toronto is a tough place to break into finance, since that the Bay Street is...
I figured that most of the people here just jump right to conclusions. Especially the "newsletter" concept. I wasn't 3 months out of college,...
I guess in a way figures are irrelevant, it is if you would prefer making $200k trading or $200k as a consultant. Problem is time and energy,...
Why am I replying I have no idea. I have spent 6 years in management consulting in a top firm (BCG). While the average quality of people I...
This is exactly what some of the prime brokers provide, GS, BofA, etc. I was with both for some period of time, in both setups, all the tech...
Now this is my turn to ask a question. Would you prefer to make $1MM a year trading or doing contract / consulting? Of course, ignore the...
A couple of things. First of all, a $200M fund is comparatively small these days. I was part of a $200M fund, and we had < 10 people (and only 2...
Don, I know I am nit-picking here, but while equity trading is going down the tubes on Wall street, other product areas (such as derivatives,...
On the pure strategy-similiarity side, probably not, most of the NYSE prog trading is focused on index arb and replication anyways. But, given...
Well, GE is mainly Globex, whether automated I am not as sure. But the nature of GE (liquidity, fill algo, etc) is highly suited for simple...
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