For C++ quant positions, which of the new standards of C++ are generally considered essential knowledge (and tested in interviews)? Is it essential to be familiar with the C++11 changes? How about C++14?Thank you,CommodityQuant

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: MattFQuoteYour example isn't quite right. You're buying something at 6/11 (probability of winning, not odds) which should be 5.5/11 so you're overpaying by 0.5 in 5.5 or 1/11 (~9%) not the 20% markup you have.Two equally good players at 5/6 would correspond to an overro...

<t>A clarification: When I say "you will get kicked out if you win", I mean that bookmakers are (of course) not happy to retain customers when there is evidence that the customer's wins will be greater than the customer's losses in the long run. How about betting exchanges rather than bookmakers? I ...

<t>Quotebut the barrier to trading in most sports markets is pretty lowYes, in the literal sense that you don't need to invest much money. However, the spread is enormous compared to financial trading. For example, in a tennis match between equally good players, typical odds are 5/6, 5/6. In financi...

<t>Quote"Forward" implies some sort of absolute direction and if your ambitions lie in the direction trading, it could be a good move, thoiugh less for classical quant or risk work.I don't quite follow why you think this. Do you believe there are closer similarities between financial trading and spo...

<t>I had a quant role which recently ended after five years. What are some good ways to present this employment gap on a CV/interview? Or should the topic just be omitted by simply having the heading "Employed from ... to ... 2014" without having a what-I'm-doing-now section. I believe Dominic sugge...

I am an experienced quant with a Masters degree in Financial Mathematics from the University of Warwick, and have been working as a senior quantitative analyst for the past 7 years. I am available as a tutor for financial maths courses. Please PM me if interested.CommodityQuant

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: finallytradingThanks everyone.I have since been offered two more interviews with quant hedge funds, and will probably have them next week.I have no data mining or statistics experience, will they ask me about it in the interviews? Are those interviewsjust focussed on br...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: finallytradingThanks, CommodityQuant.I mostly meant advice regarding model val vs continuing to interview.Obviously, it's not close to being your desired job, or you would accept it without hesitation. Since you've had so much success at securing interviews, and you say...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: finallytradingDoes anyone else have any opinions regarding the thread topic?I was going to leave this to those who know much more than me, but since you're canvassing everyone on this forum, I'll mention a few random things that occur to me. Please note that very few pe...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuoteOriginally posted by: CommodityQuantQuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnI think you can prove pi/log pi > e/log e by using Tchebychev's theorem on the distribution of prime numbers:QuoteCuchulainn, I strongly disagree with you here. Your proof (a more fo...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnI think you can prove pi/log pi > e/log e by using Tchebychev's theorem on the distribution of prime numbers:QuoteCuchulainn, I strongly disagree with you here. Your proof (a more formal rewriting of my proof) makes no use whatsoever of the distribution of pri...

QuoteWhen x > e is it monotonically increasing? Yes.I shouldn't have said that this method is not straightforward. As a punishment to myself for that, I'll abstain from strawberry-banana smoothies for the next week.CommodityQuant

<t>Look at the logs of the two sides. Is pi > e * log(pi) ? In other words, is pi/log(pi) > e? Let's now differentiate x/log(x) and examine its value at pi. The derivative is (log(x) - 1)/log(x) ^ 2. The derivative is positive for x > e. Therefore pi/log(pi) > e/log(e) = e. Yes, pi > e * log(pi). Th...

<t>As a quant job-seeker, I find this a very interesting and useful thread. After a prospective quant has studied such pdfs, I'm not sure how the knowledge can be used to get a job, although I agree that this info could be very useful once one is already employed. The problem is that, in my experien...