I’m a senior in college and recently accepted an offer to be a quant trader. I feel unprepared and was wondering what skills are the most important to be successful, and which resources I can use to learn these. For background, I am an Econ major with little coding skills. Should I dedicate more time to studying financial markets or practicing coding, and if coding, which languages should I target?
(I’m a trader at a NY-based quant firm, and work on education and training for new traders, among other things.)
I’m nearly certain that your hiring manager (or anyone involved in hiring you) would be happy to receive literally this question from you, and would have advice specifically tailored to the firm you’re joining.
The firm has very a strong interest in your success (likely more so than anyone you’ve interacted with in college), and they’ve already already committed to spending substantial resources to helping you prepare for a successful career as a trader. Answering questions like this one (even before you’ve “officially” started) is literally (part of) someone’s job.
(I’m declining to answer the actual question not to be unfriendly, but because I think the folks at your future employer will have more accurate answers than I can give.)
I’m a senior in college and recently accepted an offer to be a quant trader. I feel unprepared and was wondering what skills are the most important to be successful, and which resources I can use to learn these. For background, I am an Econ major with little coding skills. Should I dedicate more time to studying financial markets or practicing coding, and if coding, which languages should I target?
(I’m a trader at a NY-based quant firm, and work on education and training for new traders, among other things.)
I’m nearly certain that your hiring manager (or anyone involved in hiring you) would be happy to receive literally this question from you, and would have advice specifically tailored to the firm you’re joining.
The firm has very a strong interest in your success (likely more so than anyone you’ve interacted with in college), and they’ve already already committed to spending substantial resources to helping you prepare for a successful career as a trader. Answering questions like this one (even before you’ve “officially” started) is literally (part of) someone’s job.
(I’m declining to answer the actual question not to be unfriendly, but because I think the folks at your future employer will have more accurate answers than I can give.)