I have had a couple of weeks to have a think about the next step to becoming obscenely rich.
Weighing up my love and fascination for trading and the freedom that this would allow, and coupled with my 12 years experience in coding software and my ability to learn new things very quickly, I have decided to find a job that will teach me how to build trading systems properly.
I have been talking to some of the recruitment agents in this area and have found that the way to get into the serious banking / trading environment is to have experience in that environment. This is of course a chicken and egg situation. So, how to crack it.
It is possible or easier to get a position with a banking subsidiary company that would offer this experience, or take a full time job in a bank earning less and go in as a more junior position that I would be used to.
There is also a course I have been recommended that teaches about Quantative Finance. This course is expensive (Around £10K) and takes six months to complete in the evenings, but comes highly recommended and teaches the complexities of this type of trading and the certificate might open doors into a bank’s trading floor.
You can find out more about this course here.
So, I have dusted off the old CV, and sent it to some of the agents and see will see what happens.
In the mean time, I have decided to find any I.T. contract that pays well to get me out of my financial difficulties.
There seems to be a fair amount of maths involved in building the trading systems, and luckily I have some experience of this as I did a physics degree. I have forgotten most of it, but I am going to start re-learning some of the calculus etc ready for the next step of building my own system.
I ignored this before and used the methods in ShareScript to generate the numbers I wanted. Once I understand more about what is going on underneath, this should help me achieve a greater understanding of patterns and randomness in trading.
I am also reading and learning more about FOREX trading in general and am reading the book ‘FOREX, Patterns and Probabilities’ by Ed Ponsi. It seems like a good book and I’ll write a review of it once I’ve finished.
