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i tried doing arbitrage in sports once , this was b4 i got in quant finance. ..its almost impossible tho. I tried all the different combinations especially when you have the option of multi betting where the odds are multiplied by each other to produce bigger odds.. its hard tho, if its 2 team...

there pricing options using the market?? so everythin i learnt in derivatives pricing BS comes down to BS( BullShit)...lol btw i thought when pricing vanilla options (excluding dividends) the rate is referring to the risk free rate of say a 30day government bill. ....unless you mean the...

can we put it on our resume that were members of quantnet.com?? lol on the interests section. perhaps saying your active in the quant community......if your not already working at least andy can anyway since he pretty much runs the show here

a million a month?? only 300 months then till its guaranteed the country is out of work, lol

Chapter 0, Supplemental Problem 3: Find the largest possible value of x > 0 with such that there exists a number b > 0 with (x^{x^{x^{.^{.^{.}}}}} = b). Also, what is the largest possible value of b? is the answer 1 for both x and b??

haha funny....was skeptical why used y(0)=S.. now I think it kinda gives it away

where'd you read that?? source?? I doubt thats gonna happen......and even if it did quant skills are transferable to any other industry. Can always go back to science and engineering or anything that requires the study of random variables which can mean a lot of things in this big uncertain...

Anyone planning to buy this book?? It seems the first of its kind coming out December 10. It seems quant funds are the way to go than investment banking these days I think <iframe...

or you can just do a PhD and everything is paid for.........:)

shutdown?? shutdown because there arent enough students who can handle the maths or is quant finance going to be extinct because finance is getting too complex heading to a recession and its better to keep it simple????

should there be any books on risk management??? Not all quants here are pricing derivatives are they??? i suppose theres var and credit risk

quant demand theory my theory is doesnt matter what happens in the market whether thier going booming or in recession, theres ALWAYS gonna be demand 4 quants.... people always wanna know how to make money regardless if the economy is going up or down.........can't say the same about other...

i taught myself c++ using teach yourself c++ in 21 days, downloaded visual studio. When I needed help i'd ask friends. I found learning programming was wway easier learning when you dont have to since thiers no pressure.. programming requires patience, if you do a course on it, it'll will...

shocked as I am.........I actually went and did it....i've signed up, paid the cash and theres no way out now....can't believe what just happened!!!!....no refunds.....i'm hopeless at making financial decisions,.....I hope I'm a better quant than just shutting my eyes and just going 4...

I read the bio's of the students and surprisingly there are quite a few students who are level 2 and level 3 candidates. There all studying towards there Masters in FE of course but many of them started their CFA before obviously and have had also careers before they started their masters in FE...