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

Re:Coders who trade: Wall Street designs its staff for the f... by naturalgradient on Friday November 17, 2017 @04:38PM (#15726186)

Ah that matches what I have heard. HFT/HF is paying up but overall, as someone who is coming up on making the decision, it's hard to see the upsides of finance.

Losing all visibility/ability to publish/being a first class contributor and not second class dev..

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Re:Coders who trade: Wall Street designs its staff for the f... by corporateslave6 on Friday November 17, 2017 @04:58PM (#15726335)

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

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Re:Coders who trade: Wall Street designs its staff for the f... by shortoncash on Friday November 17, 2017 @11:32PM (#15727762)

HFT has matured.

But, I agree, finding alpha through alternative means at internet scale has been around for at least a decade, but things are getting more interesting now.

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