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One of my friends has got admitted to the Masters in financial management programme at RSM. http://www.rsm.nl/home/master/Executive-Masters/mfm If anybody on the forum can comment on the reputation of Erasmus University and Rotterdam school of management or the experience of life in netherlands...

I guess markets performing poorly has less to do with downgrade and more with the global slowdown anticipated as the yields on both 2s and 30s are going down. German DAX experiencing heavy selling in export based companies..

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/256288/senator-barack-obama-explaining-his-2006-vote-against-raising-debt-limit-andrew-c-mcca# From Sen. Obama’s Floor Speech, March 20, 2006: The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign...

http://www.businessinsider.com/barclays-markets-selling-on-chatter-about-an-sp-sovereign-downgrade-after-the-close-2011-8#ixzz1UAfjE3DP Rumours were already there..and was confirmed by the ferocity of selling in SnP after the good payroll data.... Some people say AAA is like virginity.....

Federal Agents Raid Virginia Institution That Draws Many Students From India http://chronicle.com/article/Agents-Raid-Virginia/128433/ The U.S. Department of Homeland Security raided the University of Northern Virginia on Thursday morning, hauling away computers and boxes of paperwork and...

May be to remove the ambiguity and maintain the line of reasoning ,its name was changed to chennai :)

correct!!!! I here there is a London in Canada as well....

What country does that mean? England? I have heard Australians are also subject of her majesty...

hmmmm...read about all the people mentioned... You have a very impressive knowledge of European politics and all these days i thought you were based out of US.

"Neither do British policemen" Then how did they shoot a Brazilian at a subway mistaking him to be a muslim terrorist....

Even I was surprised reading that policemen in Norway don't carry firearms , so it took time to form a team... But I also read somehwere that he shared the ideals of a party which was poised to come into majority next election...

Reminded me of this quote after oslo incident. Fortunately my friend had decided against BI.

I liked the movie... If you liked it , you can watch "Gangajal"... Same team and even better movie...

Zero hedge is also great. If you want I can give you the product specific websites that I use.

Right but that REC was Rourkee Engineering college and these REC's are Regional Engineering colleges... Are you from India? If not, I am really amazed by the amount of information you have on Indian Colleges :)

You have a valid point to which I don't have answers... but would just like to correct you that its NIT rourkela and not IIT Rourkee... NIT rourkela is not one of the toughest to get into and I doubt it deserves a 13 ranking.

There are atleast 50 engineering colleges and Universities which are ranked in Top 10 in India. So graduating from a college ranked 13 isn't much of an advantage. GRE quant satisfies the minimum score requirement. It's a crime( something like day light murder) to get less than 95% on NCFM...

Some people spend more than 30 minutes each day on other websites as well....for instance QN :)

That's why he is not taking the risk.............. inspired by markowitz....'coz the return is same with less amount of risk.... optimal selection :)

90% :(... Will there be a Final exam?

Will there be any Grades on Final Course Completion Certificate ??

Where did you get a four point GPA in India. Also MFE and MBA are entirely different things. Another point you can consider where you want to work after your graduation. Also you can consider getting a 1-yr work-ex and applying again to IIM's next year with preparation and hoping to make itno...

Most vague thread I have come across on QN. Why are people even replying to it.

This time I will post one for kadeer..... A + b/c ÷ d/e If any of the above variables are to be doubled to halve the equation, which one should it be? See, this question took me about 3 minutes to figure out. There's got to be an easier way to save time. I just plugged in numbers..... what...

Read previous few posts .. Question was misread :)

It's asking for the total no. of gallons of fuel in two full tanks..... keep in mind that tanks were already full as is mentioned in the first sentence of the question. Now you can't add more to a full tank so it must be drawn from the full tank..... In that case the contents are 400 and 1000 ...

Compared to any country in the world , India never looks like a failed state to me :)

All the best to all the CFA candidates writing exam this weekend :)

Yes...Mocks are highly representative.....Btw , we already have a thread running for CFA L 1......

Just to get some perspective...What percentile is an 800 and 790 in quant in GRE general test?

Rather than looking hither and thither as suggested above , it's always best to hear directly from horse's mouth...... http://www.cfainstitute.org/cfaprogram//Documents/the_cfa_program_our_fifth_decade.pdf Even I used to listen to such statements during my CFA exam days as "ethics is a must to...

I don't think Ethics is weigted more heavily.... Level 1 has more weights in FSA .... level 2 in FSA and equities and Level 3 in PM... Some people do have an opinion that you can't score less than 50 in ethics and pass the exam....but i have seen people getting less than 50 in ethics and...

MPS is set after the exam and whosoever gets more than that passes..... No criteria of sectional cut off or fixed percentage of people to pass.....

Also congratulations for your GMAT score :)

And last time I checked Bose was the name of an audio equipment company.... :)

With great power comes great responsibility...... Spiderman With great power comes great responsibility and great urges..... DSK

@Rishabh Please take the JEE exam once again and we all pray that you get selected this time......May be then you will start talking something which makes sense.... Corruption is a problem in every developing nation of the world.That's one of the components of equity risk premium of developing...

http://www.quantnet.com/forum/threads/cqf-as-a-prep-mfe.6466/ You may want to see this as well...

sounds good to me......

If you raise petrol prices by almost 10% , its but obvious that diesel price rise is in the offing... You can't just increase one and leave other untouched... It would be too bad for climate...

You don't need luck.... You will crack it neways... :)

I really liked the videos and notes of C++ on CQF extras... Why don't you conduct an exam of C++ as part of CQF to grant a certificate.....These days a certificate seem to matter more than your knowledge in C++......

u smell expensive - what perfume are you wearing? petrol !! :)

Why do people have bias against short sellers.... Why to have an uptick rule... I would rather vote a downtick rule in commodities....

"15 years ago, getting an American visa was extremely easy. Today it is tougher to get an American visa than to get an Indian visa- longer processing times, massive blunders are but the norm at the US embassy in India." Why would anyone want an Indian visa.... and moreover if they make getting...

Thats because there are no good MFE degrees offered in India. Most of the quant work is currently done by top engineering grads as those are the only available options.But an MFE from a top school can surely fetch you a quant job at a BB in India.

JD = Job Description. CFA+FRM won't be valued much for quant field. Quantnet's list of books is really good in case you want to increase your knowledge in the domain. CQF tries to place you in your country of location as its not easy to get a work visa for entry-level roles in UK/US. I know for...

After and during your CQF , if you are not sponsored by your company ... CQF career services ( Geoff Brown) will help you in finding a job .... They will mail you the JD's or send your resumes..... If you are looking at a $250k job , then the 2-3 years work-ex has to be a related one....

My call would be ... Princeton UCB & CMU....in the order

I guess those are the ideal target delegates....Already in a job... Don't want to go to school and want to learn quant fin......

Assumption for making the above statement is that QCF = CQF

They do have a final exam , on the basis of which you get a distinction plus there are module exams and you get a class rank as well....

"Also, would this be looked at favorably when applying to Baruch?" If I am not wrong , I read somewhere on quantnet , a reply by DAN Stefanica (Baruch programme) that a CQF with distinction is definitely considered impressive on a profile.

You can not compare a 6 months part time programme with a 1 year full time course in terms of content. They have classes on C++ as well . As per the cost part, they do provide some very generous scholarships to deserving delegates. I am currently enrolled in the programme and very satisfied with...

CQF is a very organised and well thought out course. It sure can give you a very solid preparation for MFE or you may get a break in the field without a further MFE. i.e., can act as substitute of MFE as well .They are working on their career services too.

Increase the Supply.??? or rather Decrease the supply....

@rishab : Take the example of luxembourg , it's external debts are around 4600% of its GDP. It has a solid economy and its debts are considered among the safest with AAA ratings.

Thanks for all the inputs bbw... @newhaven CT : You are right. It means more or less the same. :)

Thanks for the reply. Yes , the scholarship covers the tuition only.Do you mean to say that University of Oslo is a better school?

One of my friend has been selected to BI Norwegian business school Masters in Financial economics programme with100% scholarship(http://www.bi.no/en/Full-time/Masters/MSc-in-Financial-Economics/). Does any one has any idea about the reputation of the school and the programme.Any help will be...

My 2 cents: If with your current qualifications,you are not able to make a breakthrough , I don't think Certificate programme will help much,You should go for MSOR and complete that in 1 year.

submitted :)

IMHO this is not a lengthy or a difficult exam....

I don't think this table has much relevance to credit ratings of a sovereign as it is gross debt...not the net debt.... Luxembourg too has a AAA/A-1+ sovereign credit ratings (one of the best sovereign ratings) while having the gross external debt of 4636%.....

when the news came out around 14:00 GMT , I was in a spot, had so many positions running and before I could calculate the impact on my different posns,i realized by the price action that markets are unperturbed... all dips in US treasuries were being bought into...Dollar after spiking 50 ticks...

Hey.. Looks like I got the tone of your previous message wrong...Apologize for any offence that you took....But You know I have always lived in India and never been out of the country except for short leisure\family trips...I need not be from CU to know about CU.....I have lots of very good...

@Devdeep : for people like you who name the schools they went to at the drop of a hat ....I would rather not disclose what school I went to .... As I will start hearing voices that I am faking it..... But modestly I can say that It would be lot better than someone who went to University of...

let me give you more such facts since it appears you like these facts .... Many IIT students can't write a C program to add two integers.... Regarding your other concern..... This fact just shows that US schools are better than schools in those countries...But the point here is not why United...

Even most IIT grads fall in the category described above in the article.... Curriculum of engineering(Including IIT) in India is such that you don't need to study at all....Just mug up a day before your exams and you are done..... And obviously since you studied for passing the exam you won't...

"And good that you know about VTU and I too know abt VTU compared to other colleges." I am a computer science graduate too (India) but sadly never ever heard of VTU. Where is it located?

UCL rejected me because I am over qualified. How did you come to know about this....

We don't always think rationally... 7 is considered lucky by many so when they have a choice to select between 0-10 ,7 is selected with highest frequency.....

I am so disheartened not to see my name on the list .... :(

I hope you are aware of the new Immigration changes for Non-EU Citizens. From the choices you hold CASS seems a good choice though none of them are likely to land you a job now if you are outside EU

Samarth Agrawal was sentenced to three years for stealing SocGen's proprietary high frequency trading algorithms yesterday, making him the first person to be convicted of stealing high frequency code.

http://www.businessinsider.com/samarth-agrawal-3-years-socgen-prison-high-frequency-code-2011-3

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2011/02/23/496331/nomuras-220-a-barrel-crisis-oil-call/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8502640.stm @andy : This article is more than an Year old.

How about students completing MBA's/Mfin's at LBS? Majority of the batch is International. So , does this mean that everyone returns to their native countries??

"That's what I was trying to explain dale, just how ridiculous it is for someone to say that they can make genuine predictions about the future." Suppose there is some bike race happening frequently.I have been following all the racers and their activities.I see racer X going to practice...

If you are in a line at the movies for 2 hours and someone cuts you off and comes in front of you. What do you do? I think this question is directly related to a situation of real life as a trader. Suppose you are bid at a price and someone comes and improves the bid i.e., you were...

I think markets are more concerned about this phenomenon spreading to other arab countries.

@princeton man : you already have two masters. What are you applying to?

I think these days it makes sense to specify which crude oil you are talking about :) Brent is already near 100 but 150 looks remote as of now in near future...but eventualy it will cross that mark.

Can anyone comment on the huge difference between the crude oil price at Cushing and North sea i.e., WTI and Brent. Wti is priced 12$ cheaper than brent ... I am surprised as Wti is a better type of crude.

Orange juice looks like a good bet to me... either you will make money or gain good health...win win situation

Buy far out of money oil call options. Now when oil reaches 110 encash it. Hire a driver ...Start a taxi with that money... keep on buying taxis with the profits till the time you own 90% in that mkt. :)

I guess ...the implication here is U of C

I personally use bloomberg+reuters (both paid) and we have a Squawk box... You can use Bloomberg - Business Financial News, Breaking News Headlines but thats delayed around 10-15 mins .. and FutureSource.com | Futures, Forex Analysis for charts which are again delayed by some...

"The controversial post-study work route will be abolished and only "trusted" sponsors will be able to offer courses below degree level to adults." Can someone elaborate this. Was planning to apply to LBS MBA this year but not anymore.. :(

There is no mention of India.. Did they perform poorly or the test was not conducted in India?

You can add CQF also in your list of choices.

"In mitigation, there's some good scenery and some rock climbing to be done there." Right...... only at the risk of being shot straight in you head or being kidnapped for the demand of getting a terrorist released.

Who would like to go to a college in Kashmir... even if i am paid for studying i will not even think...

Yeah. Rebuilding career in India won't be a problem for him.And please don't compare him to madoff.... sometime our whole life boils down to just one insane moment.

I have had few interactions with him and just feel sorry for him :(

Isn't it unethical on part of tower research too? they hired Soc Gen HFT traders in the past too.Doesn't it look plausible that someone at tower was also in collusion since the code was being brought to them.

You mean to say it is illegal to carry one's work at home? If the intention had been stealing the code it could have been done by understanding the code rather than printing ....

I agree to most of what you have to say and specially "We are not in a bull market.We are not in a bear market.We are in a DOPED MARKET !!!" Although I doubt the statement " Market prices are not justified at all by the current economic conditions. This is very subjective. One can prove...

Trader Baruch returns the result of MBA zicklin as well and many traders have their surname as baruch... this explains

I think reduced number of applicants could be the reason or may be increased number of seats. I don't understand why they ask for an academic reco for people who are out of school for 4-5 years... My professors won't even remember me after 5 years... Few of my friends with 2-3 years of work-ex...

A Paralyzed Fed Defers Decision On Monetary Policy To Primary Dealers In An Act That Can Only Be Classified As Treason http://tradingsuccess.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/fed-paralysis-2010-10-27-durden.pdf

Nothings gonna happen to china. They will eventually become a superpower. Mr. Chanos' articles looks more like a hope trade.

Any Comments on whether this is going to work or not?

Rahul I had never before heard of CFE except for this thread. I am a Successful trader for the past four years now and I don't think answering your question (knowing answer to your question) will prove whether someone is a capable trader or not. Just because couple of people had grievances...

I think there should be a different forum for questions such as these which only the moderator is allowed to answer. Start a new thread " test Andy's knowledge" and post these questions there. BTW I doubt You will ever get replies. See there are two possibilities : Either you wanna...

"There's more discipline and ethics in Asia than there is in the West" As far as my experience goes I doubt this statement.

Oh. Yes ..sorry....forgot to mention .... May be Indian QN members will find this post useful and for others they can play for fun if they want to :)

http://trademogul.futuresfirst.in/TM/Default.aspx You can trade S&P , Gold , T-notes and Cude and win very attractive prizes.

karthik which university's website did you calculate your gpa?

Berkely courses are cheaper but they just have three courses in mathematics for online learning Calculus 1 calculus 2 Introduction to statistics and content of these courses seem very basic in nature....I am not sure whether these would be the right courses for mathematical requirements of MFE

@joy : I am based out of India.Can you tell me of any place to do some maths courses either by correspondence or online..?? I checked Columbia Video Network..They have some good topics but they charge 4.5k$ for 1 subject...that makes it 25k dollars for 4-5 topics....Not affordable ...I want to...

@joy : Good knowledge on Corp finance and Financial statement analysis are hardly required if you want to work on quant side.... IBD yes.... Moreover it would be more prudent to learn those things via CFA L1 I guesss...they have a very good curriculum on those topics... And also I hardly think...

I have a similar query here. I have taken Maths 1 and Maths 2 during my engg curriculum which includes calculus mostly. I have done CFA L2 which includes statistics and probability. So topics I am left with are Stochastic Processes Optimization Time series analysis Game Theory Real analysis...

How good is the LBS Mfin programme in terms of placement for International students and its recognition in US? Also I have an admit for CQF programme..I want to do a Masters in finance from a Top School..Does going for CQF hamper/brighten my prospects for a top school??