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In terms of having a job based prize along with the monetary prize, what would you guys think about some sort of study abroad prize as well, where you went to cambridge to work with quant profs? would you be more or less interested if this was hosted along with a university?

I looked pretty closely at how the funding was distributed. The grand prize was very nice, but prizes were also given for people who made $500 profit on millions of initial funds. We won't be doing that :) However, we would like your input on collaborative tools. We want teams rather than...

Hi, I would like to first introduce myself. I am an employee with the Buttonwood Group Trading Firm. We do a lot of quant work, so we often visit this site (not to spy, but just to get an idea of what students are thinking about) I noticed that the IB trading competition was well received in...

Hi, i can't speak for other institutions, but we do this. However, we often require our computer guys and our mathematicians to meet frequently. This means that either our programmer has to have a mathematical background, or our math guy must have a programming background. Someone has to...