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Hey, Looking to get some color on a CS phd from someone who has done one / involved in academia. I would prefer to keep this private, so if you message me your e-mail address I will go further into details. Thanks!

basic form that registers portfolio positions and tracks real time price, factors in txn cost, and gives you your LTD p and l. http://www.jasonmellone.com/garage/portfolio/?user=demo if you change ?user=[yourname] it will create a new portfolio on the fly. dates are YYYYMMDD format...

Sabany, Have you tried exploring opportunities more aligned with your current goals? Based on your years and possible product knowledge you could get a role somewhere doing more interesting work. Especially with the years of coding exp.

"U.S. banks are exploring ways to comply with the new trading rules. Citigroup Inc. was looking at three options to meet the new rule, including moving a team of proprietary traders into its hedge-fund unit, people briefed on the matter said in July. The bank would set up the traders as...

not a career path but fwiw: languages like php, mysql (aka sql) and javascript (aka dummy java) are so similar and php is so immensely cookie-cutter for doing anything a little tougher than the easiest of tasks that they are a breeze to pick up for anyone who codes. dont know if i would call...

Andy and KaiRu, Thank you both for the input. Intro to Algorithms seems like a better choice for a shelf reference I would like to have on hand even after the course has ended. Just found a copy for relatively inexpensive. Thank you again

I will be auditing a graduate level course this fall in algorithms (optimization, graph theory etc in C++). The recommended text by the professor is: Fundamentals of Algorithmics by Brassard. This book has received awful reviews on amazon, and was hoping someone on here may be able to...

RThomas, not sure if you are going to stay living around NIU, but a great option would be to audit courses that lead to a quant-ish route. quants usually don't have degrees in coding, but can do it very well. with this, if you can audit (free/cheap) some Comp Sci classes you will get a leg up...

vb has come up in interview questions for me and my fellow alum. trader!=programmer most traders use excel to do basic stats and look at ratios they feel are important (assuming no automated/prop interface to do this for them). best way i would say to learn vba is by example. try and...

anyone know if there is anything big missing from the 2nd that is in the 3rd ed? the pricing is a whole lot more agreeable for 2nd.

definitely follow dc's advice. being a powerful vba coder will really help you along wrt front office and being junior. don't worry so much about the school you attended. if you're not top tier, it doesn't really matter. just try, and work harder to compensate. learn vba, then once you are...

richard, one pointer and piece of reading material i wish i had for the subway while i was in the program is mark joshi's book (http://www.markjoshi.com/quantjob/). pick it up and try and read on the subway and during free time. it will help to start to prep you now for the interview questions...