Recent content by fortunaire

  1. How to Destroy a Bank

    not so necasarily true you can take out wal mart you just have a bigger fish to fry try taking down an insurance company linked to their pensions then you can hit an accounting firm that does their cost analysis etc.... you get to drop 20 points be fore they start to scramble then you wipe out...
  2. Demand for quants?

    i agree andy but you know we do know if we apply i historical debt history or at least economic history teaches us of the beggining and spark every new generation there quant mind like people to do the ledgering and structures of the bartering systems of the trade heck and please excuse my...
  3. Demand for quants?

    true indeed but you just cant think like a quant in these days if you want to own wallstreet you have to be more of a trader are think like a trader or entrepreneur if you will we design these things if if its in the flesh or in spirit were the ones thinking of these things night and day and...
  4. high when do you graduate and how are you preparing your resume as a quant i was just curious...

    high when do you graduate and how are you preparing your resume as a quant i was just curious on what onw looks like....good day
  5. How to Destroy a Bank

    banks are easy in all fairness how about a chain of pension funds are a whole country it's been done before pal....let me know if you could add on to what i considere a master peice and brillant asset allocation phenomenon......happy trading
  6. Release mode vs debug mode

    i have heard of similar situations it seems you may have to release a configuration set and terminate legal operative binding the data or search recall in the fix is looping and not allowing sensitve co op feed to relay at least thats what their teaching us in theory try letting your pc run...
  7. Undergrad Advice

    please excuse me for my interruption but i could not bear to hear you guys/girls speak such a way no longer....do you know most of the best and most successful quants are self taught 88% of us are .and enough with the baby math grooming... you need 2 and only 2 real math talents to be a better...
  8. Undergrad Advice

    all sounds find and dandy great info but truth is actuary/financial engineering jobs is the only market in the job real world that did not get hit so if your thinking of becoming a quant heres where your wanna be but the bread and butter is being in it for the long term and going solo most top...
  9. Reports in C++

    sorry no c sharp maybe if your programming the sound board for a 64 bit donkey kong game but for finance models lets go c plus are if your talking entry code work why not perl
  10. Reports in C++

    when did sun micro system re distribute its version of java the bean machine language had bean out of gas last i heard it's biggest pay off was sold off to a bank leaving the engineers running the program department at sun out to dry even though the stock went up i can agree java works for the...
  11. Prof. Salih Neftci (1947-2009)

    i am sad to hear a fellow quant and intriguing contributor to finance is no longer with us i have read some of his book and will complete it soon it is people like the professor who keep the torch flaming in this embarricle way to universal enlightment in mathematics may peace be with his soul
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