"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new." Ralph Waldo Emerson

On my wish list...I am looking forward to reading the book, Aaron!!!

Thanks, ZmeiGorynych, you've sold me on getting started with matlab...which has been collecting dust on my hard drive for some time...

Quoteinteresting that when 2/10 inverts for few minutes everybody starts to talk about the end of the world etc.Is there anything else to talk about this week...?

Here is a good link on the implications of yield curve inversion from an expert on the subject...Yield Curve FAQs

<t>Hi gjlipman, We tried using an on/off switch for the asynchronous real-time request via the ActiveX data control in VBA. We liked this because structure because we could reuse all the code we were using for historical requests of the same. It worked fine when it was OFF - naturally. But, would lo...

Re: Can anyone bring us up to date on the current state of play?I will be surprised if we see the real eye-popping paychecks at the top of the list this year...

<t>to brush up on topics like non-linear optimization or stochastic calculus...you might conisder taking some distance learning classes from Columbia University's CVN...good program...some classes to check out are "Stochastic Processes for Financial Engineering" or "Optimization Models and Methods f...

<t>Hi Andrew, Thank you for the thoughtful response. The challenge at hand is a real time application to support a 3 person team of traders/portfolio managers. Despite the merits of using a data hub, I am not yet ready to abandon the simple implimentation of a single Excel file running on the trader...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: EsperitoHi everyone.Just wondering when banks/hedge funds etc start to turn away applicants for graduate positions for trading/quant work based on age level.I'm talking about applicants with just an undergraduate degree.I'm 23 now and will have finished a double degree ...

<t>Re: The difficulty (breadth of the material as well as the analytical rigour of the exam questions) has increased in my opinion.This is a difficult issue to debate as probably only a long-term CFAI insider could say definitively. I would have to dig out the CFA materials from my exams in 1987-199...

QuoteOriginally posted by: QuantJockI'm wondering whether, CFA would be of an advantage, if some one is looking to work in a fund-of-funds....CFA is valuable in the fund management industry, especially for client-facing roles...

QuoteOriginally posted by: jomniThe CFA Progam has changed a lot since the 90's. The work experience requirement has been 3 years in investment biz since I joined the CFA program in 1987, but was bumped to 4 years and the experience definition tightened from 2005...

testing again

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: jksaidIn regards to MFE and MA in Math Fin, I usually tutor these guys in Math Finance and Stochastics, I find it hard to believe that an employer would find that if I had an MBA I would be unacceptable in comparrison.The basic point that it is the substance/underlying ...