People apply for mfe for different reasons.
1.) Swayum, it is okay to gear your statement of purpose toward being a trader. That is actually what I did. keep in mind that you have to convince the admission officers that their mfe program will assist you in reaching your goal
2.) captn, are you a...
I think there are some differences between Stanford and OCW courses.
The 3 online courses offered by Stanford seem to be very organized. I received emails from them regarding which videos i need to finish by the end of the week. There are deadline on quiz and assignments, and the forum is...
Hello everyone, so excited to finally start!
Objective: Learn C++ to meet programming requirement by UCB
Programming experience: none
Current work: unemployed, waiting for graduate school to start
Intended pace of program: Finish before the end of the year
I have a feeling that we will never find out what exactly Mr. Adboli did. Even though Mr. Adboli worked at Delta One trading desk, I remember reading a WSJ article stating that Mr. Adbloi specialized in hedging of risk, which could means OTC complex derivatives.
There are so many useless stories on Mr. Adoboli's $2 Billion loss. Can't UBS just tell us how he lost so much money.
I highly doubt Mr.Adoboli lost that much money by trading ETF. He must be involved in complex derivatives trades which allowed him to take this much risk and hide it for so long.
Based on my personal experience, a minor in business is not that essential at all. Programming course will definitely help you more. I was kind of in your situation last year, and I took the GRE exam at the end of October. I definitely think you have time to study to get a 800/500 score. If I...
An internship in the financial area can definitely help.
Also I would recommend taking 1-2 finance/econ classes and maybe take cfa level 1 if those classes do not fit in your schedule.
make sure you get good recommendation letters.
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