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Can you explain more? How did you find a trading company that hires non formally trained devs? They seem to be the type to only look at Harvard grads etc.
by bitcoinmoney 7y ago
Can you explain more? How did you find a trading company that hires non formally trained devs? They seem to be the type to only look at Harvard grads etc.
- FajitaNachos 7y agoCheck their profile. I'm guessing it's the same company.
- chad_strategic 7y agoSo what I didn’t mention in my response for the sake of brevity. I have an MBA in finance and a register investment advisor. With out going into a lot of detail... I became a programmer/coder in 2010-2011 because having an MBA didn’t really help your job prospects back then. For some reason stepping away from my financial knowledge and some life events that alter my career path. About a year or so I decided it was time to get back to my financial knowledge of markets and my ability to program. I need to get out of the trap of a dead end programming job. (I was working in Drupal 8... it doesn’t get any worse) I already had one stock algorithm so I started working on an options algo. Then via the internet I ran across a family office that needed assistance with a futures algo. I’m luckily because I have strong academic understanding of financial markets and the ability to build algo and write code to api’s.
- chad_strategic 7y agoI got lucky with the family office job. But before that I was trying to figure out how to market my stock trading algo. (Still looking for a online marketing person) Sure if you want to work in a co location, high frequency trading firm you might need a Harvard degree, but there is no reason that you can’t write your own profitable algo.
- chad_strategic 7y agoI would recommend reading micheal Lewis flash boys. Great book also very insightful.