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Don’t waste your time or money on a CFA, unless you want a slow buy-side job or aim to become a financial advisor. The curriculum is out-of-date and in some par
by guard0g 5y ago
Don’t waste your time or money on a CFA, unless you want a slow buy-side job or aim to become a financial advisor. The curriculum is out-of-date and in some parts wrong. It’s also missing the ‘tech’ in fin-tech. You are better off self-studying quantitative finance or learn about payments (stay away from asset allocation as this eventually leads to a high paying sales job as head of asset allocation).
- gunshowmo 5y agoThanks for the advice - are there certain topics I can learn about or some way you think I can work on making my resume stand out in any way after acquiring those skills?
- guard0g 5y agoNowadays RL and Gaussian processes are very popular on the trading side, as is applying attention-based NLP techniques for pattern recognition. If you are interested in stochastic calculus and convex strategies, John Hull's "Options, Futures and Other Derivatives" is a classic read. Another good book is Marcos Lopez de Prado's "Advances in Financial Machine Learning."