Thanks for the Advice Outrun. Many thanks

Thanks for the quick reply outrun. Do you have other characteristics that I want to avoid, you mentioned indifference and humbleness are bad atmospheres for the interview.

<t>I am worried about the potential pitfalls of interviewing for two different positions at the same time. The desk VP's will be there at the same time interviewing me, the potential pitfalls I can see are "Which job do you want the most?" "Which is the area of finance which interests you the most(i...

<t>Have an opportunity arising within a major inter-dealer broker ship for a couple of months on a trial basis (leading to something permanent). Not interested in the position, but wondering if it would look good on my CV. Seeing as I am "raw" grad would that break into Risk Management/something qua...

Anyone...?

What they like? Comparable to an investment banking desk w.r.t. trading? If not, what are the disadvantages and advantages. Are firms like this seen favorably from investment banks and hedge funds when looking to migrate?Cheers

Thanks very much for the help on this matter robsan. Very interesting method.. Cheers

<t>I want to do principle component analysis on the residual vector, to attribute the un-explained variance to a number of "missing" factors from the regression.Now to do this in Matlab you need matrix (M*N where N>1), so my idea was to construct a matrix from the residual vector. This would produce...

Maybe you could direct me to a good book instead??Been reading Pratap (Getting started with Matlab 7)

think its done by considering int[exp(xlnx)].

<t>Tying to convert residual vector into a residual matrix. Since the vector has more than 127 elements (there is 1487 elements each vector) I cannot simply use ipermute to generate all the cyclical permutations, I was thinking of reducing the vectors to only 50 elements (by averaging them), but can...

any takers..

anyone got a macro which replaces them with the previous data point?Cheers

QuoteOriginally posted by: olbiHow about comparing bonds with the same duration?I think you would run into trouble since duration increases across the rating classes holding the maturity constant, since the YTM is larger. Stick with the redemption yield...

Thanks for the reply.. Would it be possible to obtain a copy? I don't have access SPIE digital libraryRegardsG