Recent content by Saturnia

Since the colleges mentioned are in CA, my guess is that he trades the morning only. And most daytraders that I know of trade only from 9:30 to 10:30. I know a few in Vegas but I knot there is a huge number of day traders there working during lunch breaks to catch the final hour and before work...

Andy, I have a similiar question but with a little twist. I have gone from two years in one college to another one. I recieved a 3.8 gpa before transfering but the school I went to didn't take the grades, only the credits. I wound up with a 3.4 and mostly taking advanced classes in math and...

Well wouldn't it show interest in the industry ? I hear people say that all the time. There's nothing more practical then a S7 in this perspective. Plus it will definitely help land a job in the future. Not everyone that finishes MFE goes into a trading desk, sometimes you need to go around it...

After all Russia defaulted in 1998. The point is that I hear too many people in the industry say that "the Fed should have a blue dollar plan" meaning in case things go wrong just issue a new ratio and the Chinese problem is "solved". The natural question arises that if that were to happen...

On an economic note however the Treasury department just "introduced" something called "covered bonds". Those instruments basically belong to the 1700's, a few centuries ago. You can do CDO and CDO of CDO and CDO to the n-th power, the point is that the amt of leverage in those things becomes...

I said hard to model not impossible :). Now there are things such as weather trading being done on hedge funds, and they have meteorologists employed doing this stuff!! On a personal note, what did you do after daytrading ? Just curious as I am undecided myself on how to proceed, but the amt of...

I have worked at investment companies(hedge fund too) and like I've said in previous posts I've seen history majors trading. Of course the IVY appeal has to do with it, but the point is that here everyone that I am reading seems obsessed about making money(big money), so the names you hear are...

The problem is that the CDO market and all the SF market in general is far ahead of the stock market, yet this market is not available to the individual investor. Data that is, is not available. You have stocks like PMI, Radian etc just to make an example trading with huge spreads 1600 bps and...

Is it ? I speak with current facts not with hypothetical situations. I can't speculate on that, but I know how things stand now, that is a 3 trillion dollar hole in the market.

Tudor Jones and other people are an exception. No one can expect to be like them in my opinion. And school here doesn't matter much. It's about timing, and the fact that most of these guys were in the market when there was no such thing as algorithmic trading in wide scale and all this SF stuff...

Hi, I'm new here and the reason that I decided to enter the forum was because I attended the Baruch MFE seminar/presentation of the program last week and I'm deciding how to go about the application. I see that many people are saying the MFE is better than MBA. I currently hold a dual degree in...