Recent content by miniboot

u say omg i wud luv 2 b a trad0r plz, 4 i cnt fnd all da lettrz on mi keyboard

hmmm.... hedge funds... at most, you could probably invest in one hedge fund. Your typical min. investment is around 100k. Successful diversification requires an allocation to hedge funds of at least 5-10mil, and the general reccomendation of hedge funds in your overall portfolio is 20%. So...

except for last year ;-) agreed about their offices too. such an interesting system, seeing it all happen in real-time was mindblowing (I'm still at uni so forgive the awe factor, it's probably quite standard fare to seasoned professionals looking at systematic CTAs)

yup. the girls on their sales team are amazingly beautiful if I remember correctly.

Aspect Capital... massive drawdowns in spring last year, but they've been running for years and have had doldrums followed by mean reversion before. Very interseting systematic trading

Yeah I recently applied for a graduate position (equity research, not trading) at Threadneedle, and it asked some pretty stupid questions like 'what do you think are the three most important factors affecting today's markets' and 'what one stock would you invest in and why'. I was gonna write...

sorry if I'm late to the party, but I just watched this and it was amazing, one of the best things the BBC has ever commissioned. hopefully they'll re-screen it at some point so more people can enjoy it.