Well, I guess they closed the commodities desk because they failed to capture the pole position, did they? Maybe they lost to someone else? Maybe...
So if I understand well, you're essentially a programmer that built risk systems, as opposed to trading systems. Is that correct? You never traded...
'Same team' meaning... ? OTC product risk sounds pretty far away from HFT system design to me. In what kind of bank is that done 'in the same...
"Interesting point lemeeplay. It's true that many foreign programmers are replacing most of the domestic ones. So if a quantitative finance...
NC: No, I don't think a financial engineering master would be enough. FE diplomas are very generic by nature and were mostly designed with the...
You should do a master in computer science. You'll have to brush up your programming and algorithmic skills a lot. Studying in mathematics,...
No, it's not enough to know when IV is relatively high, or relatively low. If you expect clustering or mean-reversion in IV, so does the...
There's nothing negative about my posts. It's all about being realistic. Even raising 30-50MM is not easy for someone with no significant...
Sorry buddy, but all you've done is show a backtest with a leveraged sharpe of 0.82, assuming you can borrow at fed+1%. 30% or 100% return doesn't...
These are refered to as multi-boutique managers. Lots of firms offer such deals to keep good portfolio managers.
So if I understand well wmu, you want the investor to both seed your unconclusive track record (nearly all the value seems to come from the last...
Unidirectional value... Bad
Thousand times sorry, I mixed you up with someone else (cmitseff). At this amount of assets, once again, you just don't need to run a hedge...
Rock, it's nice to see that you've been able to raise 10MM to 15MM to start a fund, yet just pay 5k$ a year in accounting fees to operate, without...
Though the guy is from new jersey.
1) Having connections is something you need to get a job. Having *lots* of connections is something you need to set up a hedge fund. Smart people...
I'm not saying this is total bullshit, but here are my thoughts. You started with 150k and now have 5MM, which you regard as a success. Yet,...
May be a phd in astrophysics, his software is for kids. I'm confused as how he could have worked in a quantitative strategies group and that's...
BS written by kids.
Not sure but I think there's a bunch of ppl here with good backgrounds. But trading and counting are very different things.
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