I would like to familiarize myself and understand equity derivatives modelling and pricing. I'm a institutional sales trader in cash equites but would like to transform and enter the equity derivative worlds of swaps/exotics as sales trader or market maker.

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i new to programming and ive been wondering if Liberty Basic or PYTHON is best place to start?

Signing bonus is usually in the form of a 5 yr forgivable loan. Breakend would still be long-term at best. My guess its a kinda "land-grab" of assets for the bulge-bracket. Hubris of brokers chanting we are the "biggest".

link seems to deadend. Maybe just me...

First issue likely stuck with USPS. US mail never said anything about deliverys when it hails out. "Rain nor snow nor gloom of night" ..... only. Loophole.

<t>orginal post was in book forum, oops. I'm a "rookie" quant and use Minitab and Excel for most of my basic computer work. Can anybody suggest which software (Matlab, Mathematica, SAS, S-plus) is best for a quant mostly involved with equity modelling? Or are these packages "overkill" for me. I also...

<t>Along the same lines, I'm a "rookie" quant and use Minitab and Excel for most of my basic computer work. Can anybody suggest which software (Matlab, Mathematica, SAS, S-plus) is best for a quant mostly involved with equity modelling? Or are these packages "overkill" for me. I also need brushing u...

Anybody know where I can find the Cox-Rubinstein book, Options Markets? No luck w/ the major booksellers or even Bookfinder.com ? thx

Which book by Grimmet is recommended as a starter. Intro to Probability or Prob and Random Processes (2001 or 1992 version)?