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OP, honesty it doesn't matter where you go but what you do for your education once you get there, how much time you spend outside of class learning stuff on your own. Everyone tries to go to top program which there is nothing wrong with but everyone is cut the same. 3.9 gpa, Math, engineering...

OP. If you want any of the books mention above I can get them for you in PDF cause those prices are insane.

What do you call a company that does PE/VC, real estate and is a hedge fund? Alternative asset management firm?

Does anyone know how far the Put/call ratio goes back to and where I can DL to an excel sheet?

Thanks for you reply. I think you might be right I am not in any rush so taking it slow might change my mind.

btw do most CFA books assume no prior knowledge?

Ok fair enough I will try to explain why. I think that the Tuckman book assumes you know introductory knowledge about bonds and pricing which I don't; my background is in equities. Now in my case some of these things I didn't know are easy to look for example why bonds are price in terms like...

I was wondering if anyone could recommend books that could introduce me to the subject of fixed income if I had no previous experience with it? I am looking for something that blends causal interest/reading with math only to clarify the concept at hand. I am looking to understand concepts like...

This is a good movie I think. I just got done watching it

is this out already?

Thanks for taking time out to find these links

Can you give a link or a name of the weekly indicator? I've seen plenty of time when bad/good econ data comes out and the market react as if they didn't know from the prelims (aka forecasts) what the outcome could be. but I understand your point about being subjective but anything and...

I might not know exactly what I am looking for but I know this is not it. You bring valid points I suppose but let me ask you this, how would you classify the consumer sentiment which has an effect on the markets? or the GDP numbers or the CPI number. these have more of an affect on the market...

Yeah I understand those variables but I want something a little more in depth. also something possibly quantifiable. Also that example applies more to company vs company. I am looking for overall market variables

I am a not a quant but I wondering about how would a quant possibly quantify market sentiment? I mean first of all what would they even look at in terms of variables? Put/call or VIX, margins, institutional interest, etc. How would one possibly model market sentiment? I'm asking this because I...

OR maybe your case could be a out of the norm, you can only speak from your POV. None the less everyone has an opportunity to go out an make the life they want.

What do you mean by writing sample? A small equity report?

Thanks for the reply and I liked the fact you recommended books without being asked. I will look into them both.

I know the community of quantnet usually focuses on MFE an other quant related topics but I was just curious as to if there were any good of fashion macro to micro equity researchers on the site? I wanted to try and get some insight to how they do their research and to some of the things they...

Andy come on brah was this even useful? However I agree with the rest of your response. SouthBayRider I would keep talking to people on this site and also I would try to speak with someone in the MFE department.

DominiConnor, now this is the type of answer I was looking for. Thanks a lot.

I'm sorry, I thought this part of the sentence"anyone in the community could suggest the best way to learn about the energy market as a whole and the Alt.energy industry" or this part of the sentence " I am not sure where to begin. Any advice would be greatly appreciated" but DominiConnor to be...

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I was wondering if anyone in the community could suggest the best way to learn about the energy market as a whole and the Alt.energy industry. I would like to do some independent analysis for fun on these markets and understand it from a macro-micro prospective however I am not sure where to...

are they dynamic or flat? matter of fact what exactly are their commissions?

what are the commissions like?

I am looking for a new discount broker house and I was just curious about what brokers Quantnet members use to trade stocks and why?

How is the options, futures and other Derivatives book? is it really design for people with limited math background?

Excel actually is very powerful, I've seen 3D gaming engines built in excel.

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Where can I find information on technology using semantic parsing on news feeds to generate signals? I am alway interested in trading technology outside of the world of general stat arb. or typical HFT methods

Np, At the end of day it basically is whether or not you can stand out. I went to a non-target school, has a GPA way below 3.8-4.0 and had an undergrad degree in software engineering. Because I spent time during my undergrad learning about finance, investing and money management on my own time...

I think your first question should be to ask yourself what do you bring to the table that makes you standout for a trading internship. I say forget Resume/CV as your focus, everyone and their mom takes that approach. I suggest think outside the box my friend get creative. GL

Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

Tsotne, thanks, yeah from what I've seen from the search inside feature on Amazon this could work. I was actually looking for non-mathematical books. I just wanted to pick up a book on the subject and keep reading, I don't want to stop to review mathematical equations. Something E-Z to read but...

I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a good book on behavioral finance/investing. I would like a book that is considered a good read and could get me thinking about the subject.

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Lol, SB and doing flips is cool and fun until you break an arm or twist a kneecap. Than its not so much fun. Sure you laugh at it later but when your in pain not so much.

For all the SB's out there, if you not pulling off stuff like this well.....why bother. PS. I ask myself the same question, LOL. " Motivation " http://www.artofflightmovie.com/

cool, GL with that

@joy Do you have links, papers or books?

Agree Good find Andy, cause some days I feel like that to the point I am like why did I go to school for this, who would want to be a programmer. Than I think about the creativity it offers, which brings me back time after time.

Thanks for looking Andy.

Anyone So no one knows where I can find the movie, "Inside job"?

What about this movie Does anyone know where I can find this movie to watch either on-line or buy? seems like a good Doc to watch Inside Job - Movie Website for the Documentary Film

I wanted to know if members in the Quantnet community had to develop a trading system on top of a current open-source platform that has an active community as far as updating goes what software would you choose other than Markecetera?

MFHQ Honestly, I was in the same boat as you, our goals are pretty much the same in what we want to do short-term and long-term. I played around on the MFHQ site for about 2hrs and it provided me with all the information I needed to know about MSF programs, such as what I should look for in a...

Not sure if anyone has found it but here it is anyway. If you want to watch special feature sorry. If you want to watch the floored doc here you go FLOORED Episode 1 | Babelgum

I agree with everything you mention except the last sentence. Why do people automatically assume, just because you struggle or hate something you shouldn't do it? Maybe people hate things because they struggle with them or don't understand. This doesn't mean they shouldn't do it or learn it if...

Lol Yeah, what Alex K. said. The new so called geeks/quants can balance a career and a social life. People don't seem to understand that having people skills is just as important as being able to do quantitative analysis. If you really want it, it doesn't matter what GPA you have or where you...

I just got back from seeing WS2 and I have to say I enjoyed it, I mean I have been waiting for a long time to see it. They could have done without the love story, but the movie was what I expected. Some of the reference situations where right one and some of them were over the top. What can I...

Daniel, Yeah at first I was not exactly sure about the quantlib, it seem like quantlib was something for people who are really strong in financial engineering concepts. I was just looking for something to get my "Feet" wet not get involved with crazy pricing models just yet.

Since I have no experience with professional base code projects do you think it's a good ideal to look into quantLib.org? After looking at Marketcetera it seems that it is done in java. Tradelink, allows for development in many languages but doesn't seem as organized as Marketcetera or...

Thanks for the leads, I've look at them and decided that I could have some fun with these.

Does anyone know a good place to start looking for current and active open source software financial projects? I am looking to get involved with a team and gain some experience with professional code and software development and test my knowledge and learn some new things. My current experience...

Connor, My short-time goal is as you mention would be to end up as analyst at a firm or IB bank. I would rather work at which ever one has a smaller environment so I have the change to find a mentor. My long-term goal would be to go out on my own and take those skill I've learned and do my...

What can the members of QN recommend for someone who is looking to break into finance world, that comes from a technical background but wants a non-technical role? I don't really care if I go for a position on the bottom of the financial job "pole". I just want to break into a non-technical role...

I recently had a chance to speak to a quant at he confirmed that things do get crazy on the street. He mention to me and a couple of other people that before things started to get bad for a joke he started to keep a journal and little items from his past. I asked jokingly why does he feel the...

Sometimes, I am too. but this is what I do, solve problems through code.

I wish that this was possible, but the firm I am interning for wanted all of the data to be fed in and calculated through excel from c#.

Yeah, these are good source, Thanks!!!

Thanks, for taking time out to help with this issue. I've already narrowed it down to the COM, but because I am getting exceptions "out the hole" it hard to figure out what is causing the certain exception to be thrown. I spent days looking at a lot of the information you have sent and have had...

I am currently trying to chart my S&P, M2, CC data in excel, through C#. However my code keeps crashing at this line below and throwing this kind of error (The server threw an exception. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80010105 (RPC_E_SERVERFAULT))) Excel.ChartObject myChart =...

I totally agree with you, we all want to be good at finance but as far as each of us having a niche we don't. we have specialized in different things in our majors, for example I have done a descent amount of work with neural nets and another one of my friends have done a good amount with...

Honestly, I don't believe it matters what language you start with the concepts are all the same. I had never programed before I got into college. I came from a high school were our highest computer class was MS office. When I went to college I was thrown into C++ right off the back and I some...

Curious about Thomas Reuters Is this datastream for Thomas Reuters a live feed of some sort? If I was looking to pull live data to my neural network for research purpose could this place be a solution?

When you mean when you say dataStream? do you mean you have taken the pagesource and pushed the html code into a stream you created? Cause I might have solution if you reading off a website pagesource.

I'm actually a strong software engineering major and the kind of firm of i would to start with my friends in 10 yrs or so is an investment firm possibly more on the lines of VC/stock investing. Both of my friends are software engineering major, so all three of us have done a good amount of...

@conner Well let me be honest my true goal in the future is to run my own firm with a couple of friends who are into finance/investing just as much as me. I spoke with a couple of school and they had mention to me that most people who go an major and MFE don't venture out to start their own...

So what advice are you offering? I already know all the things that you have mention

I am about to graduate soon and I'm looking to start planning out my next move. I started thinking about possible trying to get into a MFE programming but I'm not sure how much work I'm willing to prepare for cause I don't know how much work is really required. I will be graduating with a degree...