<t>Was in operations before moving to trading. Managed to get out after just over a year, but its not easy (suppose easier if you know where you want to go). I would guess that it gets harder as time goes on as some many more people now join direct to the FO graduate schemes. Also, switched firms as...

one other point...if england face sweden again, my money is on sweden....

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: tabrisOriginally posted by: wrightyBiased aren't we? Lets go over this again, why do you think the teams looked fairly balanced? Possession time talks good numbers but whats more important is number of shot attempts and shots on target and an often overlooked statistic ...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: tabrisQuoteOriginally posted by: najiba. France is back after a disastrous world cupI'd say best players (Zidane and Henry) but even watching the game I'd say France was far more aggressive in attacking than England even from the beginning. France really deserved that w...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: mikebellI read in Support forum that Wilmott.com has disabled registration from free email services to stop spamming of the boards. Try using your ISP/work email instead. Great move if you ask me!I disagree, not that i have read the terms or anything, but half of the at...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: nsandeGroup ASpain PortugalGroup BFranceEnglandGroup CItaly SwedenGroup DCzech Republic GermanyQFSpain - England w EnglandFrance - Portugal w FranceItaly - Germany w ItalyCzech Republic - Sweden w Czech RepublicSFEngland - Italy w ItalyFrance - Czech Republic w FranceFI...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: playerSince Barry isnt chosen in the squad I would just put heskey on the left. He cant do any worse than anyone else plus he can actually defend which is morethan can be said of cole who is just a liabilityI'm sorry, but Heskey is the most over-rated player to pull on ...

<t>Agreed. They reckoned in the papers that it was an experimental side, but i think he has/had stong ideas to go out with that midfield. Bottom line is we don't have a world class LHS player.Drop Scholes for Lampard, bring in a defensive midfielder, being er...mumble and then Barry on the left and ...

On the small chance I blow it with my witty small talk and dashing good looks, I'll tell her LondonPete would have an interest and to log-on.

QuoteOriginally posted by: LondonPeteLatvia ranks at the top, obviously.I am having a blind date with a Latvian nurse forced upon me, and just don't know what to do......

QuoteOriginally posted by: HankScorpioHaving said that, Boddington's in Machester and London tastes different. Indeed, something about the transport.I put it down to the extra 'free' half pint of water you get in the bitter in London

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: complexityWhat index are you looking at?How do you define "Adjusted Weighted Average Spread"?To replicate an iBoxx index, for instance, you would need to trade alll underlyings at off market spreads (i.e. at the index spread). That's where the basis comes from. Since th...

Well, this question was put to me during an interview. So not being a quant or a specialised CDS trader, I was assuming a crude answer could be estimated rationally using a hypothetical bond yield and CDS spread...

So, how do you estimate the value of the option in a CDS contract?My standard answer of 100/100.25 was not applicable here.......

<t>Found the note i was looking at ....The skew in my case refers to an index (XOVER CDS index in this case) and is stated as equal to = (Level of index) - (Adjusted Weighted Average Spread of the names in the index) Apparently is typically +ive in bearish markets and -ive in bullish.So to me sounds...