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by Koch
May 27th, 2004, 10:33 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Quant: Competitive Advantage?
Replies: 26
Views: 194955

Quant: Competitive Advantage?

<t>True, my circles are limited and my question was probably baiting a bit. I guess there are some quants out there that have equal passion for the finance and for the math...Can a quant have an advantage in the retail market? (in trading his own savings) and what market would you choose?Real-estate...
by Koch
May 27th, 2004, 10:21 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Quant: Competitive Advantage?
Replies: 26
Views: 194955

Quant: Competitive Advantage?

<t>Interesting, but I've always felt that non-quant people tend not see the beauty in the model but are only interested in the result. I mean, do they really care what piece of beautiful maths you use? or the genius of your one-line implementation? I feel that as a quant you tend to take passion in ...
by Koch
May 27th, 2004, 6:24 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Quant: Competitive Advantage?
Replies: 26
Views: 194955

Quant: Competitive Advantage?

<t>True about the salary. I guess I had in mind premium on salary compared to a quant role in another industry / academia.In my circles, I still have not found a quant that uses his own models to make money on his personal account, so I was wondering if they exist. On the other hand, I guess the mor...
by Koch
May 27th, 2004, 2:49 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Quant: Competitive Advantage?
Replies: 26
Views: 194955

Quant: Competitive Advantage?

<t>I was wondering, what do Quants think their competitive advantage is? or why do we do it?a) Salary: Premium attibuted to technical skills, because non-quant people feel assured by the numbers that are produced from all those complex models.b) Market: using complex models allows you to make incred...
by Koch
February 20th, 2004, 1:21 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Excel comment popup. How?
Replies: 4
Views: 189700

Excel comment popup. How?

Thanks guys,Even when you think you know everything, you can still learn new tricks...
by Koch
February 19th, 2004, 4:02 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Excel comment popup. How?
Replies: 4
Views: 189700

Excel comment popup. How?

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by Koch
February 19th, 2004, 4:01 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Excel comment popup. How?
Replies: 4
Views: 189700

Excel comment popup. How?

How do you perform comment pop-ups in a spreadsheet?See attached example, I can't find how it is done...