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Since Daniel asked me to respond, here are my two cents. I mostly agree with APalley about this. It still doesn't contradict what I was saying
This is clear. Nothing to add
Only certain things are develop in C++, mostly esoteric libraries and long term development. Decisions are not made based on this code until later on unless some very specific functionality is needed in terms of raw execution speed. And those functions are still called from Python, R, Matlab, etc
Algo trading is not really finance. It's really raw speed at its finest. If you want to go this route, sure learn C++ and C and assembly and GPU programming, etc. Anything that gives you an advantage at the very low level. You will also need to understand networking protocols, network architecture, OS architecture, etc. This is not finance but Computer/Electrical engineering in the most pure sense
Very clear too.

Again, as a future employee, what do you want to do?

<blockquote data-quote="pingu" data-source="post: 224842" data-attributes="member: 21445">Since Daniel asked me to respond, here are my two cents. I mostly agree with APalley about this. It still doesn&#039;t contradict what I was saying<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">This is clear. Nothing to add</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Only certain things are develop in C++, mostly esoteric libraries and long term development. Decisions are not made based on this code until later on unless some very specific functionality is needed in terms of raw execution speed. And those functions are still called from Python, R, Matlab, etc</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Algo trading is not really finance. It&#039;s really raw speed at its finest. If you want to go this route, sure learn C++ and C and assembly and GPU programming, etc. Anything that gives you an advantage at the very low level. You will also need to understand networking protocols, network architecture, OS architecture, etc. This is not finance but Computer/Electrical engineering in the most&nbsp; pure sense</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Very clear too.</li>
</ol>Again, as a future employee, what do you want to do?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pingu, post: 224842, member: 21445"] Since Daniel asked me to respond, here are my two cents. I mostly agree with APalley about this. It still doesn't contradict what I was saying [LIST=1] [*]This is clear. Nothing to add [*]Only certain things are develop in C++, mostly esoteric libraries and long term development. Decisions are not made based on this code until later on unless some very specific functionality is needed in terms of raw execution speed. And those functions are still called from Python, R, Matlab, etc [*]Algo trading is not really finance. It's really raw speed at its finest. If you want to go this route, sure learn C++ and C and assembly and GPU programming, etc. Anything that gives you an advantage at the very low level. You will also need to understand networking protocols, network architecture, OS architecture, etc. This is not finance but Computer/Electrical engineering in the most pure sense [*]Very clear too. [/LIST] Again, as a future employee, what do you want to do? [/QUOTE]

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