I think it is important to include dividends paid.

Or somply take the CQF maths course.It's the best maths course for financial engineering I have seen out there. But you should have some basis.

A priori, a simple plain vanilla IRS has no skew. If someone can confirm????

I guess he meant that instead of buying a proper option one can manufacture it by replication, with the underlying and a bank account for instance or a combination or strategy of option. Someone can confirm?

French PM Francois Fillon said today there would be no recession in France this year, but maybe in 2009. While Gordon Brown said 1 month ago UK was already in. That makes me ask myself if France and Spain have stronger economy than UK and States?

<t>Maybe and maybe not. But knowing that from 2002 to 2006 there were around 800,000 housing starts per annum in Spain with 18.5% of GDP going to housing / construction, pouring 66% more cement than Germany (whose economy is 3 times larger), and building 25% of all new homes in the EU in 2006, and c...

France and Spain are the only main countries which are not in recession. Does it mean they have better manager than Germany, UK, States, Hong Kong, Italia, or they just forgot to say they are over too?

Me to, I am interested by that info. If you can PM it would be nice.

Then a quant trader can trade on any products? It seems clear.Thanks

Hi all,I would like to know what a quantitative trader job is. The difference between this kind of trading and another one, trader on derivatives for example.Thank you for your reply.

Thank you Paul, it is what I was thinking of about CQF. And what I am looking for.

<t>My queston is, for a quant developer, does the CQF program give necessary tools to move to a more quanitative or trading role? Because if it is designed just for analysts who want to leverage their experience, I don't see the point, they can make one of the many formations on some particular aspe...

I think that one have to physically show up at least on exams.It looks a very interesting formation but I would like to know its value in a FO role.

<t>Hi! I have been working as quant developer on equity derivative for two years and I am currently working as developer for a commodities derivative risk analyser software. I would like to move to a quant analyst or trading role. I am engineer in computer science with 3 years experience. Could the ...