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This is going to be a long one. I started working on Wall Street shortly after the housing bubble in late 2007 for a very well-known firm. After two years of b
by eulerphi 13y ago
This is going to be a long one.
I started working on Wall Street shortly after the housing bubble in late 2007 for a very well-known firm. After two years of building various computational models based on esoteric distributions purposed for HFT, I realized that I could do it myself on albeit a smaller scale. I decided to target bitcoin because it is highly volatile and makes for a good asset to hedge against.
I'm now making about 20,000 a week just on bitcoin trading with about 100k liquid (80k earned from trading itself, 20k from savings originally.)
I look at jobs as a good way to learn what is profitable, and self-projects to make the real cash. Salaried jobs are never going to give a person the freedom they need. And no programmers are "rockstars", musicians are..
- xSwag 13y agoI've been wanting to do something similar to this in the future after my education. If you don't mind me asking, did you major in Math?
- eulerphi 13y agoI can't mention the specific degree because it would probably let the firm know who I am but I did not major in math, most of my knowledge of statistics, calculus, number theory, was self-learned out of curiosity.
- telephonetemp 13y agoAre there uses for number theory in trading?
- BSousa 13y agoThis is something I'm very interested in. Can you recommend some books/courses that focus more on the financial/HTF side of things? Cheers
- mallin 13y agoCan you recommend any books or other resources from which someone mathematically inclined could learn the theory behind this?
- cjbarber 13y agoI'd love for you to shoot me an email. username@stanford.edu