the asian economies were ran with bad (monetary) economic policies and speculative attack on the currencies simply exposed the problem to the rest of the world ... there's a pretty good book called "the downsizing of Asia" by Francois Godemont. intuitive explanations.

<t>i'm a big fish in a small pond, and working on being a small fish in a big pond. an opportunity for me has come up to move from a futures day trader (ie "local") to a junior quant trader at a bond desk (with about 20mil mgmt) .. this bond desk is working on becoming a well rounded fixed income de...

<t>For some reason, chicago breeds traders. This is what I found on ebay this morning. OPTION on four NLCS game 7 tickets, Cubs See the Chicago Cubs take on the Florida Marlins in a historic game 7 in Wrigley Field! This is an OPTION to buy 4 game 7 NLCS tickets at Wrigley Field on Wednesday, Octobe...

<t>Could someone explain this to me: The US treasury FUTURES market - two year notes futures trade at a higher price than the five year futures which also trades higher than the 10 year futures which also trades higher than the 30 year futureshowever. The German Futures markets - the 2 year (shatz) ...

<t>Hey guys:One thing that attracted me to the industry was the product variety. Not sure if this makes sense to any of you. But basically it was the products and the different stuff/bundles/packages that you could put together and make money .. that was fascinating for me, not necessarily the job f...

for some reason, i think the PhD is enough to get into quant jobs. when they advvertise for quants, they ask for PhD in quantitative field. .. but i don't see them asking for an additional finance degree. just my thought though.

<t>lol! I thought Sir Wilmott would've banished me for being frivolous. I'm in Chicago right now and am on the job search. It sucks big time!!!!! i don't know how it is in London, but in the US, it's been horrible, layoffs left right center! I'm currently interviewing with a few small boutique propr...

Dear peers: I find that this job market's really tough and so far, saturated with Financial Math students who are underqualified to be quants but overlooked for other entry level jobs, etc. Am setting up thread for current students looking for jobs. boludo

<t>*sigh* i hear ya man!times are rough. i find that the industry has "catch 22" .. you can't get in unless you have experience. you can't get experience unless you get in. feeler: what kind of compensation should an entry level person expect in trading .. in a little boutique house, not a bulge bra...

<t>no comments about confidence or anything fancy .. i'm a phone clerk for a trader and sometimes i execute orders to brokers in the financial rooms at CBOT. when yesterday's crash occured, the markets just went crazy. i was told the boards at CBOT had a disclaimer that prices on the board is inform...

quanto options? this might be good when you don't know how much to hedge. an example is the nikkei contract traded at the CME. it's yen dominated but traded in dollars. john hull's book on options and derivatives should have a good explanatory paragraph on it.