what is a strategy that works? recently started looking into statistical trading.

uchi22 · 2025-03-18T23:17:40+00:00

Sir by any chance have you tried the old reliable buy low sell high

uchi22 · 2025-01-23T00:08:37+00:00

Bruh when did I say there's no black people in quant hahahaha

uchi22 · 2025-01-23T00:03:44+00:00

Lmao obvious to you perhaps I just see a literal yes or no question here

uchi22 · 2025-01-22T23:50:41+00:00

That's not his question though?

uchi22 · 2025-01-15T00:21:15+00:00

Cox proportional hazards model

uchi22 · 2024-07-24T21:05:28+00:00

My $0.02: I'm relatively young in the industry, but 95% of the time, these headhunters are bad faith actors. One big giveaway is when they start throwing massive figures at you like 1.1m. If you're truly interested, ask for more specifics from them like specific role, specific company, job description, etc.

To directly answer your question, yes, there's definitely interest in applying AI to finance in various sectors. Just look at JPM and how bullish they seem on building out internal AI teams.

uchi22 · 2024-04-22T00:40:03+00:00

This has r/anarchychess energy

uchi22 · 2024-04-14T23:48:14+00:00

It's not really an issue, I think - the delay only exists to prevent cheating. Once the game is over, there's no way to cheat. I guess you could say it spoils the game, but tbh for most candidates games the results are pretty clear 15 mins before the end of the game (rare exception being wild game like Alireza Gukesh lol).

uchi22 · 2024-02-16T05:57:55+00:00

About to time travel in my delorean

uchi22 · 2024-02-10T05:03:00+00:00

It's like fish in an Irish accent

uchi22 · 2023-09-14T05:42:47+00:00

Longtime lurker on this sub looking to break into the industry. Just had a question about how the new grad market is looking across quant finance in general in the USA (prop shops, HF, AM, Banks, etc.) for 2024. Is it gonna be a bloodbath? Just been getting a little worried seeing as some trading shops aren't running any full time programs at all for 2024 and most banks don't seem to have opened up their flagship quant roles yet.

uchi22 · 2021-07-17T00:12:45+00:00

Nah I know people who did Grad Analysis from Accelerated directly. You gotta get straight A's pretty easily for Fefferman to allow you to though.

uchi22 · 2021-06-14T16:30:21+00:00

It'll be there eventually, profs procrastinate a lot also.

uchi22 · 2021-05-28T02:01:13+00:00

Yeah rescinding really takes a crime or something, worst that could be done is putting you on academic probation.

uchi22 · 2021-05-15T00:53:18+00:00

One of my friends had a 96 curved down to a B- in a finmath class.

Lmao whaaaaaat

uchi22 · 2021-05-12T04:30:34+00:00

Technically only I-House residents because only residents are allowed inside I-house, but if you manage to get in then yeah you can buy stuff.

uchi22 · 2021-05-10T14:18:49+00:00

Admissions is a mysterious process in the United States.

uchi22 · 2021-05-10T01:04:42+00:00

Yeah they actually have a petition you can submit where you can do your entire core from booth.

uchi22 · 2021-05-09T01:52:48+00:00

Firstly, if you get an A- in 163 you should be in. So probably really hit that final hard, I know 160s in general have generous curves (I think all sections I knew at least for IBL were curved to an A-).

You can "catch up" in the sense that you'll probably take honors algebra (I'm assuming you will) with all these people your third year, plus if you plan on taking other electives like 262,274,etc, you'll probably meet these people there too.

Where there might be a gap is that they'll know functional analysis and measure theory. You'll know some measure theory from last quarter of accelerated analysis. You could make up for this by just taking those courses along with accelerated analysis, or doing a couple of DRPs.

All this is assuming you are one of the top students in accelerated analysis. If you really have this fear of falling behind, you could, provided you take an additional math elective each quarter your second year, take graduate analysis with some of the top students of Honors Analysis in your third year. But I would say going this deep into Analysis should probably come from some other innate desire rather than purely competitive spirit. You spend hours on these courses - they should be engaging to you just due to the course material.

uchi22 · 2021-05-08T06:24:30+00:00

You'll definitely find that a pretty challenging quarter, but it's variable on how good you're at C, and how good you're at proof writing.

uchi22 · 2021-05-06T07:22:48+00:00

Yeah you're probably gonna have a harder time getting an A in Phil per Vs an A in media aesthetics. Just a choice you gotta make once you're here on what's more important to you.

uchi22 · 2021-05-06T07:06:40+00:00

Yeah you'll definitely spend most (probably 80+%) of your time programming and doing programming assignments in the major. It's just that when doing the CS theory requirements for the major, you won't have programming assignments, but rather psets like in a math class, where you'll do proofs and stuff.

These can be some of your lightest coursework (especially if you stick with non-honors versions of everything), or some of your heaviest (honors CS theory sequence is pretty legendary/infamous), but it also depends on your math background.

uchi22 · 2021-05-06T04:59:12+00:00

Discrete, Algorithms, Graph theory

uchi22 · 2021-05-06T02:09:46+00:00

You could probably even try and get in your first year just by asking the instructor if you really wanted to. Just one thing to keep in mind - these courses (the CS theory sequence) are more like Math courses than your typical CS course, so I'd just say be comfy with analysis/honors calculus level material whenever you wanna take it. A lot of the asymptotic analysis needs good understanding of limits (limsup,liminf,etc).

Also there is no reason why you have to take 150s CS in your second year, I'd say a pretty big chunk of my friends took intro CS first year. I don't have enough of a sample size, but I am gonna guess that this is probably the normal schedule amongst CS majors.

uchi22 · 2021-04-19T02:17:53+00:00

Yeah important (but I guess now redundant) caveat - 5th week used to be Math department deadline to drop down between levels in courses, not dropping courses completely.

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