Hello,
I returned to college at 33 to study engineering, financial mathematics, and hopefully financial engineering. I am not looking for a job. I will not apply for any jobs and I don’t care about the recognition and accreditation of any universities (even ivy league). I already have my Series 24, Series 7, and 63. I managed 30 employees and realised that the retail side will never get me anywhere on Wall Street. I can start a Broker-Dealer right now, but would rather become a quant before I do.
I just outlined my desired course curriculum for a combined B.A. in Physics and a B.S. in OR:Financial Engineering. A total of 50 courses. If I don’t get into any MFE programs, and I just buy the textbooks from every course, download each syllabus, and try to simulate every course in the curriculum, would I not get the same substance minus the lectures?
My goal is to use the textbooks, developer kits, websites, videos to basically simulate the syllabus of every course as if I was attending an Ivy League MFE program starting from Calculus 1, 2, and 3, through Differential Equations, Physics, accounting, optimization, modeling, econometrics. Everything in MFE and then some business and business law. It’s meant to be 50 courses over 5-7 years.
I know, I won’t get the recognition of actually attending. I don’t need it. I want to learn to create something of substance and if these schools and MFE programs are so great, then this should work. Thank you for any comments, suggestions, curses, jokes, and most importantly please tell me what courses you think are key to helping me start an algorithmic financial institution. I care about quality, performance, innovation. I don’t care about accreditation.
Thank you!
I returned to college at 33 to study engineering, financial mathematics, and hopefully financial engineering. I am not looking for a job. I will not apply for any jobs and I don’t care about the recognition and accreditation of any universities (even ivy league). I already have my Series 24, Series 7, and 63. I managed 30 employees and realised that the retail side will never get me anywhere on Wall Street. I can start a Broker-Dealer right now, but would rather become a quant before I do.
I just outlined my desired course curriculum for a combined B.A. in Physics and a B.S. in OR:Financial Engineering. A total of 50 courses. If I don’t get into any MFE programs, and I just buy the textbooks from every course, download each syllabus, and try to simulate every course in the curriculum, would I not get the same substance minus the lectures?
My goal is to use the textbooks, developer kits, websites, videos to basically simulate the syllabus of every course as if I was attending an Ivy League MFE program starting from Calculus 1, 2, and 3, through Differential Equations, Physics, accounting, optimization, modeling, econometrics. Everything in MFE and then some business and business law. It’s meant to be 50 courses over 5-7 years.
I know, I won’t get the recognition of actually attending. I don’t need it. I want to learn to create something of substance and if these schools and MFE programs are so great, then this should work. Thank you for any comments, suggestions, curses, jokes, and most importantly please tell me what courses you think are key to helping me start an algorithmic financial institution. I care about quality, performance, innovation. I don’t care about accreditation.
Thank you!
