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Message: <blockquote data-quote="samiam" data-source="post: 13914" data-attributes="member: 1314">Hi new guy here.33 years old guy in LA area.   No background in math, or comp sci.   I have a BS in finance from UPenn, and worked for 6 years in equities.   I started off by being a day trader on 499 Park avenue in the Bloomberg Building for two years.   Later went to Seoul Korea and worked 4 more years as a equity research analyst and then equity sales trader. I think I have a good understanding of discretionary market trading.   I also believe that no model or computers will ever be able to substitute for human intuition and instinct.    If  all trading was done by programs, then trading would not be profitable any longer imo.  So why do I want to get an MFE?   To learn about derivatives more than what I know about simple stuff like a straddle or strangle, and learn some crazy stochastic, time series, markov process, monte carlo, crazy stuff.   Stuff I keep reading about but never figured out in depth.    Anyways, good to be here and hope to learn a lot.  Oh, I'm targeting the best schools I can get into.   Some other guys GD suggested programs like USC, Rutgers, or Stevens (heh what's Stevens??).  I hope to get into the best programs I can get into.   I am applying to the best of them, and will keep my fingers crossed.    I have a really really horrendous GPA (like barely graduating kind of GPA here), so I have my work cut out for me.</blockquote>

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