quant skills ( VAR, greek analysis?)

Discussion in 'Professional Trading' started by congoboy, Jan 4, 2008.

  1. But that does. 95% of ET traders can answer those questions :)
     
    #21     Jan 9, 2008
  2. ggoyal

    ggoyal


    HOw the fuck do you know, did you conduct a survey?
     
    #22     Jan 9, 2008
  3. Interestingly enough 95% of the people in the *real* money management business wouldn't probably be able to answer most of those.
     
    #23     Jan 9, 2008
  4. What would you 'plug' the attatched answer into? It looks like a script of some sort.
     
    #24     Jan 10, 2008
  5. First idea I had was solving it with a matrix....

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(mathematics)
     
    #25     Jan 10, 2008
  6. belmondo

    belmondo

    what is the answer for a ball question? i think this is a more physical question, isn't it?
    thank you
     
    #26     Jan 10, 2008
  7. With 3 weights, you can identify the heaviest ball. For n balls, you can identify the heaviest ball after x times where x is the largest integer such that 2^x <= n
     
    #27     Jan 10, 2008
  8. The solution was in C++
     
    #28     Jan 10, 2008
  9. bidask

    bidask

    exactly. but what can you do? you can't tell the interviewer that these are stupid questions.

    what would you ask if you were interviewing?

     
    #29     Jan 10, 2008
  10. belmondo

    belmondo

    thnak you. that was my mistake. I thought the question with the wall and ball.
     
    #30     Jan 10, 2008