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corporateslave6on Coders who trade: Wall Street designs its staff for the future

I wouldnt get into HFT, its commoditized. The future of finance is in processing huge volume (internet scale) unstructured data and analyzing it in real time. HFT of website data if you will, right now we are in the infancy

corporateslave6on Coders who trade: Wall Street designs its staff for the future

Yeah not really, many HFs will match that 400k, but many will not. I have received a few offers from these quant funds, the offers have been good, but nothing I couldnt get working in tech. My understanding is that the average finance professional makes less than or equal to tech, but the top 1 - 5% of finance easily make 7 figures.

corporateslave6on The World's Biggest Wealth Manager Won't Touch Bitcoin

this isnt true, when countries have massive instability and currency manipulation (see Zimbabwe), people can buy bitcoin as an alternative store of value.