<t>Hi all,I have an interview coming up for the position as power/carbon-trader in an energy/metal company. I don't know anything more about the position. Do you have any suggestions to what I should read up on beforehand? Any good articles or links to websites? My knowledge in this area is close to...

Yes, he is.. he used to work for a bank in Oslo before he moved abroad.

aha..thanks

<t>I quote from their website: "GRE. The GRE Test is required for recent college graduates. Both the general and the math subject tests should be taken. We do not require (and are not interested in) other exam scores.""We do not require (and are not interested in) other exam scores." They don't care...

Quick E'mart is far better than this quant non-sense. And it's Apu, not Abu.

I've done a course in game theory. We used the book by Morris, and I think that's the most useless course I've ever done.

A position that involves a lot of quant-stuff and you find in alomst all financial institutions, is risk managment.

<t>I can only speek for Oslo, but I think it applies to most of the nordic countries. There excist quant jobs, but not the front office kind they are talking about here. You should look for "risk manger" positions. A quant trader only excist at the central bank, here in Norway. But they use technolo...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: DCFCThus a quite probable market structure for (say) 5 years time is not unlike that for professional sports people.That is relatively large numbers persuing each job, but people who make the cut being well paid.The next question is how you might profit from this ?I'm n...

<t>I will meet my supervisor and he will give me some topics to choose from(The ones not already taken). These are already approved by the institute. I will use 1 semester part time plus 2 semesters full time to complete this thesis. By the time of this meeting(jan 06) I would like to have some clue...

Quoteif we come up with it, how is it your own idea ? I'm not asking you to choose the topic, just suggest something. But I guess it's more fun to start a stupid argument instead...

<t>I have to start thinking about my master thesis soon, but I don't really know what to write about. I would like to come up with my own idea, instead of just getting the topic from my professor. My background would mainly be: Stochastic analysis, measure theory, financial math(Kartaz/Shreve) etc. ...

<t>Britsih girls can be a bit bitchy in my opinon, and they don't look as good as the american ones. At least the nice ones in the big cities where theydon't eat at MCD every day. People are going to be pissed by this comment, but it's true: English people are not known to be pretty(In general). Aus...

In terms of living quality: The girls are much better in NY. So NY it is! QED.

ABN Nordic (Alfred Berg) is known to pay a small bonus compared to other IBs. Earlier this year they lost a lot of key personell due to this. I don't know if this is a philosophy throughout the ABN company.