Hello,
I am in the early stages of career redirection, and I could really use some help. I hold a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering (obtained in June of this year) and about six months before my graduation concluded that engineering was not for me.
First of all, other than a freshman course in microeconomics, I have zero experience relating to finance. I was drawn to it by the testimonials of the many friends I have in the business, and the intrinsic and extrinsic rewards that far outclass those found in a career in engineering. I have continued interest because, in my very recent experience trading, I get an excitement and satisfaction out of it that most closely resembles my experience playing poker for several years.
I have recently started trading on vse, and for right now have been investing based on value and financials and my knowledge of the tech sector. I am setting up a system for more quantlike analysis which I will experiment with soon and will start a portfolio taking those positions when I see some progress.
It was only a few weeks before I realized that with my interest in q finance being such a recent development I had little hope of landing even an unpaid internship that could develop into work experience that would be recognized as valuable by an MFE or MBA program. So the question is how I obtain the fundamentals and experience necessary to gain the credibility necessary to accelerate into q finance.
I anticipate I can get into a moderately competitive school. I have a 3.49 GPA mostly brought down by my first year in school, which when not included in the calculation raises my GPA to 3.75. I am an avid test taker and with some review of the older math subjects I suspect I could do very well on the Q section of the GRE/GMAT. My quantitative background includes fundamental statistics and probability, linear algebra, multivariate calculus, O and P diff eq's, modelling diff eq's.
It has been suggested to me that I return to undergraduate studies and pursue something like an AM/Econ double major. I'd like to know what quantnet's take on this path is.
EDIT: forgot to mention two things. One, I have over a year of combined professional engineering experience, with my most recent experience (8+ months now) involving analyzing silicon reliability and characterization data statistically. The database is billions of rows and terabytes of data and I often slice up data sets exceeding 1M rows for correlations etc. I figure this experience is more than somewhat applicable to being a quant. Two, I have extensive programming experience (in case it were not obvious by my major) ranging from C to Java to Matlab to Python to Ruby. I consider it one of my academic strengths.
I am in the early stages of career redirection, and I could really use some help. I hold a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering (obtained in June of this year) and about six months before my graduation concluded that engineering was not for me.
First of all, other than a freshman course in microeconomics, I have zero experience relating to finance. I was drawn to it by the testimonials of the many friends I have in the business, and the intrinsic and extrinsic rewards that far outclass those found in a career in engineering. I have continued interest because, in my very recent experience trading, I get an excitement and satisfaction out of it that most closely resembles my experience playing poker for several years.
I have recently started trading on vse, and for right now have been investing based on value and financials and my knowledge of the tech sector. I am setting up a system for more quantlike analysis which I will experiment with soon and will start a portfolio taking those positions when I see some progress.
It was only a few weeks before I realized that with my interest in q finance being such a recent development I had little hope of landing even an unpaid internship that could develop into work experience that would be recognized as valuable by an MFE or MBA program. So the question is how I obtain the fundamentals and experience necessary to gain the credibility necessary to accelerate into q finance.
I anticipate I can get into a moderately competitive school. I have a 3.49 GPA mostly brought down by my first year in school, which when not included in the calculation raises my GPA to 3.75. I am an avid test taker and with some review of the older math subjects I suspect I could do very well on the Q section of the GRE/GMAT. My quantitative background includes fundamental statistics and probability, linear algebra, multivariate calculus, O and P diff eq's, modelling diff eq's.
It has been suggested to me that I return to undergraduate studies and pursue something like an AM/Econ double major. I'd like to know what quantnet's take on this path is.
EDIT: forgot to mention two things. One, I have over a year of combined professional engineering experience, with my most recent experience (8+ months now) involving analyzing silicon reliability and characterization data statistically. The database is billions of rows and terabytes of data and I often slice up data sets exceeding 1M rows for correlations etc. I figure this experience is more than somewhat applicable to being a quant. Two, I have extensive programming experience (in case it were not obvious by my major) ranging from C to Java to Matlab to Python to Ruby. I consider it one of my academic strengths.
