...new book by Ben Mezrich (Bringing down the house)...anyone reading this? Totally mindless but funny insight into the life of ex-pat traders in Tokyo in the 90s.

<t>I'm a junior stat arb trader on a prop desk...been running my own book for 2 years. looking at job ads in the industry, a lot of them ask for 3-5 years of audited results. how do you go about doing this? I know my firm would consider this highly confidential. I'm happy to verbally give an intervi...

<t>i'm a proud Canuck and also part of the silent majority of Canadians that like/respect Americans. this article from the pittsburg post-gazette (very illustrious I know), a few weeks back sums up Canada pretty well for Americans:> You live next door to a clean-cut, quiet guy. He never plays loud m...

Johansen is covered quite well in Carol Alexander's Market Models textbook.

I think the more telling stat is the 75 mil they have in investments....who's cake is that??? Their only liability is deferred revenue.Anyone up for organizing a "charterholder revolt" to get our filthy hands on the 75 mil?

Quotenow the next question is how can one trade these assets more efficiently?I think a good place to start is learning to spell warrants.

here's the article

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<t>I flew a "baby flot" -- Min Vody Airlines, from Moscow to Min Vody a few weeks ago...scariest experience of my life. I just had to laugh when we came in to land and there was guy standing in the middle of the aisle talking on his cell phone. I survived though....but needed a lot of vodka for the ...

Anyone heard anything about the MMF program at U of T? Has anyone attended this program? Thinking about heading home and taking a year off.Thanks and regards.

It's also good for sports trivia and used cars

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<t>A big part of your schedule will depend on your background. I had a four year business undergrad, so about 75% of the program was review. I was able to get away with studying weekends in April and May. My friends who took engineering had to study more, my friends with MBAs probably less.Did anyon...

If you already have a business background, forget buying the textbooks and buy the Schweser notes (www.schweser.com)...everyone I know used them and did fine.

a huge time saver if you are moving around between sheets and workbooks etc. is to turn off screen updating:Application.ScreenUpdating = False