My copy of Bjork: After two year, I couldn't get pass Chapter 3, "A More General One Period Model". So my new year resolution is to take a couple of Coursera classes on partial differential equations.
Well ironchef if you even heard about that chapter let alone started it means you're about the same level as me. Lemme tell you stories about where I come from. Small countryside town / village, my father drinking with the math teacher, about 10:30 AM when guy raises up from his n-th coffe + cognac and exclaims "fuck, guys, I've got classes! gotta go!". I was top brass so I found the story amusing rather than annoying. When gymnasiun finished, I moved to lyceum, best in the county, best class in the lyceum. Well barely got admitted at the bottom of the class (bottom of the best). My desk colleague went to become a high ranking officer in the Romanian army, fought in Afghanistan and all. Anywayz, back to "A More General One Period Model", 10:30 AM, small forgotten town in original Transilvanya.... (to be continued).
Speaking of bottom of the best, I got rejected by Romanian Technical Military Academy. A year later admitted first at one of the major non-military universities in the capital of Transilvania.
I have a best friend from childhood who stayed in the "coffe + cognac" small town. When I was final year in lyceum peparing for military academy, he asked me to help him with university admission ... in math. He's a good fellow but... math? OK, I was thinking to myself, maybe he doesn't grasp that well the second method of integral substitution ... NOT! Really, I was prepared for anything but not for that. Prepared politically as in telling him politely where to go. Technically... he didn't know ... fractions. Like 1/2 + 3/4. No. Fucking. Idea. I politely told him I'm gonna think about it. Btw, You know who taught him enough math not just to enter but to finish university? The "cognac" guy
Dude, you have a website (sic) that reads that you offer front to back office option analytics and trading. You're laughably FOS.
Let us know when you get one of those continuous time (hedging) machines. There are statistical-arbs everywhere, and while learning about replication and dispersion is cool, there is zero utility in replication (and pure arbitrage at <1% rates.)
If I started out with wealth, I won't be trading and won't be on ET. I am older, it took 20+ years of saving/compounding to create my runway and allowed me to quit and trade full time. Those of us in the US are lucky. Even though most started with modest means (by our standard), by third world standard we started quite well off if we live below our means.
As long as you don't treat me as some 3rd world goat that you can fuck at will, we can talk. I used to be part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire btw, so I've that mentality, whatever that means. You know what that means? We good people, trying to make shit work for everybody, only to regret it afterwards. Just because I'm a good guy you think I can't drag you in the woods and play football with your heads? Think again.