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Neil Dwyer
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Hey all,

New here and new to investing in general. As a recent college grad with degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Math I'm toying with the idea of going into quantitative investing as a career.

I've read some articles about this as a career and wanted to ask you all about what it's like firsthand (if you are a quant as a profession), good ways to get into the career, etc.

Some questions I have in not particular order:

1) How did you get to be a Quant?

2) Will it be easy/possible to get into the industry with no previous experience? Currently I'm writing my own quant software for paper trading in objective-c for learning purposes. Is this a marketable experience?

3) Favorite part of being a Quant?

4) Least favorite?

Thanks for taking the time. I look forward to learning from y'all in this community.

Cheers,
Neil

2 responses
Neil Dwyer

Interesting,

So what's your opinion on going back to school into one of the 2-year MS Finance of MFE programs?

Emiliano Fraticelli

Sorry if I interfere here.
What's you CV, your history, MarketMeat, to be sure on the advices you give?
I'm absolutely certain you are right but just to give your advices more strength...

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