Recent content by Nahed

It's like creating new financial products depending on each client s financing needs. It involves a lot of departments such as legal, marketing and trading. It's like trying to solve new optimization problem depending on each client....

Yes I did a lot of research before accepting the offer at Cass. I knew what I wanted to study from the begining and they had the perfect match (numerical analysis and econometrics) . My background BBA-Finance/quantitative methods. 2 years experience at CDP capital in Montreal in an index and...

ah Thank you ! Anyways , as I say you'll get rewarded for your hard work one day or another. it's only a matter of time. I have a friend who works around 100 h per week studying and working. He is only 25 and bought his first appartement (without the help of his parents...). ...and it's only the...

networking is very important..sure you should read books !! good luck

Is it a compliment ? I'm both from Canada and Morocco....

Yes I have a suggestion ! If you can try to talk to actual traders around a beer ! I learned a lot of things just hanging out with them. Nahed

Ilya, I make no difference between someone who has the actuarial exams or not...I make no difference between someone with a CFA or not.....The only thing that matters for me is how well would you do in your job..I see and work with people with such qualifications everyday and beleive me some of...

Hello ! I'm going to Cass B-School Next year in Msc Quantitative finance. I Want to know what people think about the program (specially head-hunters)! job prospects in the city etc.... Nahed

One word ==> Very Childish :D You are funny Stanford Grad

Welcome to IEFC : with no co-signer up to 20K$ with a co-signer you can Borrow more

1 Year for the long futures..5 years no no..too long 3 months Long Vix

I would go long Futures on the S&P500.....

I agree with you pardasani... We all know that there is a negative correlation between gold and the USD and the correlation is higher (in absolute terms) when the USD is down... I'm asking myself...Is gold still a safe haven ? or the market is over reacting ? Will the past repeat itself ? What...

The thing is that everybody agrees that gold is a "safe Haven" and there is a big consensus now on the market that investing in gold in particular (commo in general) is a good thing. Yes the money has to go somewhere now it is commo , 3 or 4 years ago it was the abs mbs and credit derivatives...

Gold at 1010 $ today, it just seems insane ..prices are reacting on bad news and not on fundamentals (not that good by the way..) . Is it time to short commodities ?