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Old 10-06-2007, 02:55 PM
mrbaseball mrbaseball is offline
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Default Re: Ask mrbaseball about trading for a living

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how good at math to you have to be?


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Depends on the kind of trading. Heavy arb stuff you should be good at math. For market making in options you need the ability to make a lot of quick but basic calculations on the fly. For scalping you should know how to add and subtract. For reaseach you should know probability and statistics and how to do mathematical spreadsheets. For heavy quant fund trading I guess you should be a rocket scientist [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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