you had a choice, didn't you?and you chose to.

<t>good break down of cashflows.now imagine they lost money last year, and is hoping to make less loss this year...QuoteOriginally posted by: PaperCutQuoteOriginally posted by: pgeek1a HF with approx $200M under managementI have MS in Engineering and some publications, with no experience apart from ...

<t>yeah, that's essentially a 'bubble'.QuoteOriginally posted by: twofishMy advice is "learn stuff." Focus on what you find is fun.Giving advice that is more detailed is self-defeating. If people think that learning X will make them rich, everyone learns X, and supply and demand insures that relativ...

it's interesting that you want someone cheap yet good.in a fully effiicient market, this kind of arbitrage should not exist.but of course, the market is often more dislocated as we know.

do you have any quantitative skills? i.e. graduate level maths.

no offense, but that doesn't sound like a 'proper' quant job then.maybe more on the lines of qaunt-developer, where there's more programming skills than prcing theory / numerical methods knowledge involved.i'd expect a much higher bonus for perm quant position.

yep, show me the money.

not very good. why don't you start with the search function first.

retail derivatives market-maker, fx/comm spread-betting.goldmans owns 10% i believe.

get a top MBA for ERMFE involves alot of programming, so does the career path entails...

<t>Stick to the Msc and find a job first.You really need to know minim re: financial theory / pricing background to be a quant developer, all you need is C++.And the reality is you won't get a pure Quant job, the best you can probably aim for is QuantDeveloper, and let's be honest, you don't need al...

<t>what school you went to if don't mind sharing?QuoteOriginally posted by: skhQuoteOriginally posted by: jambodevHi Everyone,recently started a MFE program and was just reading this old thread, and I must say, tone of most of members and senior members is very depressing. It makes me feel like quit...

<t>there are basically two types of 'quants', the traditional desk quant in an IB that focuses on derivative valuation and pricing, and those in a statistical arbitrage fund, where you estimate parameters and back-test your hypothesis.so when you say you are good at statistics, and have done conside...

people chase after money.an average engineer / scientist is underpaid compared to an average guy in banking.now one may ask, why are engineers / scientist underpaid?

can always start from trade support...u may need a degree from the top schools - even then it's not a guarantee in this climate...