Quant Noob Here

[Corey Rowell]

Hey All

I've been following Quantnet for a couple months and this will be my first post. I've been really interested in pursuing a career in quantitative analysis. I've been working on my C++ and I've downloaded a couple of the books off the recommended reading lists and have thumbed through them trying to pick up on a few things.

I'm starting my bachelors in computational economics from UCSB and hopefully will be able to move on to a top 10 grad school. I've been trying to learn something new everyday related to programming/finance.

Seeing as most of you have already gone through where I hope to be in 5-10 years what recommendations/tips of advice can you guys give me so I can begin helping myself out now, for the future?

 

[KaiRu]

Hi,

Tip №1. Never ever start a presentation of you from weaknesses.

Tip №2. Never ever mention MFE, Quantitative Finance and HTML in the same paragraph let alone the same sentence.

You are welcome

 

[euroazn]

Hi,

Tip №1. Never ever start a presentation of you from weaknesses.

Tip №2. Never ever mention MFE, Quantitative Finance and HTML in the same paragraph let alone the same sentence.

You are welcome

I don't think he did

 

[KaiRu]

I don't think he did

It was edited I believe - OP is a self-starter and learn from his mistakes which is a good sign

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Seeing as most of you have already gone through where I hope to be in 5-10 years what recommendations/tips of advice can you guys give me so I can begin helping myself out now, for the future?

Welcome to Quantnet. Glad to see another lurker who posts
You are way ahead of when I was at a similar point in my study so in when you are ready for your MFE journey, you should be well prepared.

• Get good at at least one programming language/a scripting language/ and database query
• Go to free talks, networking events
• Join a professional society (IAFE, SQA, QWAFAFEW, etc)
• Participate in an open-source project (quantlib, etc)
• Talk to current and past students of different programs.
• Attend open house of a few programs you are interested in.