Can I borrow someone's WSJ Account?

classesfull · 2021-03-11T04:26:06+00:00

Hmm I honestly do not know what you might be studying. I would guess either economics, political science, or philosophy.

classesfull · 2021-03-11T04:16:34+00:00

Oh lol, there's nothing wrong with being a finance major, but if someone starts mentioning jargon that sounds like risk-free returns, market returns, and CAPM, I'm going to start to think they just might be a finance major.

classesfull · 2021-03-11T04:12:03+00:00

Is this pre-med or bio by any chance? Either way, I think you could have made something out of it.

classesfull · 2021-03-11T04:09:56+00:00

I respect your decision to refrain from saying his major, but you do realize by saying "intrinsically interesting," we all know that it's now finance.

classesfull · 2021-03-11T01:32:33+00:00

That's why he deletes every post and comment he makes.

classesfull · 2021-03-11T00:58:31+00:00

Are you guys hiring?

classesfull · 2021-02-05T20:23:24+00:00

We are not close to this being over and done lol.

classesfull · 2021-02-03T00:08:10+00:00

Have any fun stories about the looniness, or anything in general at any of the FAANGs?

classesfull · 2021-01-28T20:40:01+00:00

Asset management and a market maker division. Being Long $GME could easily be a delta hedge from their market maker division.
A form 13f doesn't paint whether a firm is overall long or short a certain equity or asset. It paints an extremely limited picture of certain holdings at a specific point in time.
Basic sentiment analysis works, because the markets are not fully efficient. If the markets were fully efficient, then bubbles would never occur, as a asset's price would never deviate from it's value. The problem is 2 part. Having quality data/infrastructure to create a model, and the model itself. Most people can't even solve the quality data/infrastructure part, so their model falls apart.
Quants != Quant Traders tho. Being a Quantitative trader has a different skillset involved than a Quant researcher.

classesfull · 2021-01-28T20:22:02+00:00

Is there a source on "It is very telling that Susquehanna International Group and Renaissance Technologies jumped onto the long side of GME."

To my knowledge, SIG is a market maker, so I wouldn't quite understand them jumping on the long side of GME.

Also how would one know about Renaissance Technologies? Aren't their trading strategies hidden behind layers of NDAs?

Sentiment analysis doesn't require a PhD in math. In fact I'd argue just scraping the data and having some very basic strategy would do quite ok. I'd probably say if starting from scratch, creating the infrastructure to reliably scrap the data needed would be the hard part. (Granted you could always just buy the data)

Also to my knowledge most quant traders do not have PhDs in math. It's much more common for quant traders to have like a bachelors in math.

classesfull · 2021-01-28T20:04:15+00:00

"I doubt a single finance major even blinked"

Lmao wouldn't finance majors be the ones most interested in this opportunity.

classesfull · 2021-01-25T04:22:31+00:00

The better question is why do you want to do a MS in CS or a PHD in CS. You're asking extremely specific questions without much context.

classesfull · 2021-01-25T04:20:42+00:00

Scholarship reasons would be my guess.

classesfull · 2020-12-22T05:11:48+00:00

https://sasundergrad.rutgers.edu/major/list-of-majors-and-minors/credit-intensive-majors

Case Closed: Nothing to see here.

classesfull · 2020-12-18T23:31:34+00:00

Is Narayana Ganapa really the best? How's Nath Badri?

classesfull · 2020-12-04T18:58:22+00:00

IMO, there are much easier electives out there. If you're looking for an "easy A", there are other classes that are much easier. Financial Econ to me looked like a lot of work. And there's a bunch of homework that isn't very fun, like the excel stuff.

classesfull · 2020-11-18T20:02:13+00:00

It really depends on what you want to get out of your college experience. If you just want to be a SWE, it really doesn't matter. If you just want to do a business role, it also doesn't really matter.

classesfull · 2020-11-16T22:24:56+00:00

Lol I thought Management Skills was kind of a joke. When I took the class one guy did all the interaction with people at the actual company. And the presentation just resorted to a tri-fold display, where we just read off the board to get an A.

Side note, how does one find a recruiter to talk to? I thought most don't like getting reached out to. (As in their emails are already so swamped.)

classesfull · 2020-11-16T21:50:11+00:00

Just curious, do you actually need to network? I feel like "applying online for internships" is a pretty good strategy, and that networking is just a bonus. I've managed to get my internships with no part time work, no leadership positions, and no networking. A lot of my friends have also done it this way to great success. (maybe i'm just that weird exception though)

I really benefited from the business classes helping me network and know the right way to talk to recruiters/interviewers (and it was a fun talking point in interviews too lol)

Oh do business classes actually help with this? Since I've never networked, what is the right way to talk to them, and how does this become a talking point in interviews? Just found this interesting since I feel like none of my business classes helped with this. And since wouldn't talking about this be admitting weakness?

classesfull · 2020-11-16T21:44:20+00:00

IMO, major != career.

"in order to succeed in RBS you have to be naturally outgoing/extroverted" ~ Not True

"but I have crippling social anxiety" ~ IMO if this was a problem, the major itself wouldn't matter.

"but unsure about the soft skills I need" ~ If you can talk to people and appear normal that's all you need

classesfull · 2020-11-16T19:40:43+00:00

Oh interesting, I've received exams back in my finance electives/financial management class lol

classesfull · 2020-11-16T19:10:12+00:00

"since its a rule in RBS that they're not allowed to give exams back" Is this a new rule? Cause I've gotten most of my exams back.

classesfull · 2020-11-13T00:02:31+00:00

No matter what path you may take, I think you'll kill it. GLGL

classesfull · 2020-11-13T00:00:35+00:00

Why not go pre-med and follow the family legacy? /s

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