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Boston, MA (not remote) MDT Advisers - We're a small quant investing shop working with machine learning, financial analysis, and the hardest dataset in the wor

Boston, MA (not remote) MDT Advisers - We're a small quant investing shop working with machine learning, financial analysis, and the hardest dataset in the world. We're mainly hiring for a general analyst position that’s about 60% programming and 40% financial and statistical analysis -- http://www.mdtadvisers.com/careers/qea.jsp http://www.mdtadvisers.com/careers/qea.jsp . The people, problems, and pay are good, and we aim for good work-life balance(e.g. no 60 hour weeks). You can email me at jlewicke@mdtadvisers.com with any questions you have.

retube 15y ago
Just out of curiosity, what's the hardest data set in the world?
- jrockway 15y ago
  Pricing diamond futures?
  - jplewicke 15y ago
    Londsdaleite futures, actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonsdaleite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonsdaleite :) I was originally talking about trying to get currently profitable trading strategies out of the same pieces of accounting information that millions of smart competitors have access to. It's definitely a bit of a Red Queen's race ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queens_race http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queens_race ) trying to find and clean up new data sources and improve our trading methods well enough just to stay current. It's also hard because even though there's lots of data available, it's hard to tell how useful the early data is and whether you can still make money with trading strategies based on it.
    - retube 15y ago
      Very interesting. I guess though that there is little data that the rest of the world _doesn't_ have right? Btw, The wikipedia link should be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queens_race http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queens_race
      - jplewicke 15y ago
        That's interesting -- it looks like news.arc automatically removed the "%27" from both of our URL submissions, maybe as an over-zealous anti-spam precaution.
        retube 15y ago
        Ha - so it did! I didn't check, assumed was good :)
bricestacey 15y ago
If you don't mind me asking... If someone were already a good programmer, what is the baseline financial/statistical knowledge?

retube 15y ago

Just out of curiosity, what's the hardest data set in the world?

jrockway 15y ago
Pricing diamond futures?
- jplewicke 15y ago
  Londsdaleite futures, actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonsdaleite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonsdaleite :) I was originally talking about trying to get currently profitable trading strategies out of the same pieces of accounting information that millions of smart competitors have access to. It's definitely a bit of a Red Queen's race ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queens_race http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queens_race ) trying to find and clean up new data sources and improve our trading methods well enough just to stay current. It's also hard because even though there's lots of data available, it's hard to tell how useful the early data is and whether you can still make money with trading strategies based on it.
  - retube 15y ago
    Very interesting. I guess though that there is little data that the rest of the world _doesn't_ have right? Btw, The wikipedia link should be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queens_race http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queens_race
    - jplewicke 15y ago
      That's interesting -- it looks like news.arc automatically removed the "%27" from both of our URL submissions, maybe as an over-zealous anti-spam precaution.
      - retube 15y ago
        Ha - so it did! I didn't check, assumed was good :)

bricestacey 15y ago

If you don't mind me asking... If someone were already a good programmer, what is the baseline financial/statistical knowledge?