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Here is the link to a recent Time magazine article about Quants and how they manage money. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1531320,00.html Investing By The Numbers By BARBARA KIVIAT Posted Sunday, Sep. 3, 2006 You know how to pick a good stock, right? Read up on a...

According to the Professor Stefanica, on Wednesday, 9/6, we should follow a Monday schedule. That means we have Object Oriented Programming instead of Numeric Linear Algebra. He also said that in general, we would follow any class schedule changes as per the regular Baruch calendar.

Sometimes I try and post articles from Barron's on the Forum because I really believe that this paper is incredibly insightful and important for students of finance (and mathematics of finance!) to read. But as I was reading it this weekend (a weekend ritual which I enjoy immensely) I was...

Andy mentioned that it would be useful to have some exposure to and learn more about financial terminology. Here are 2 websites that you may find useful: www.investorwords.com www.investopedia.com

As moderator of the Finance forum I will try to post articles that I believe are interesting, and I encourage you to do the same. We will be learning a lot about theory in our classes, but it is just as important that we read articles which provde us with a window onto how finance in all its...

Every week, Barron's has a section regarding options called "The Striking Price" usually written by Kopin Tan. Since we will be learning a lot about options and options strategies, I thought I'd post a recent article (using the method Andy taught us, which he has convinced me is legal!): THE...

Has anyone read this book: Financial Modeling - 3nd Edition (Hardcover) by Simon Benninga - if so, what did you think? Also, does anyone have a recommendation for a basic book to learn Visual Basic? I have a colleague in our program who uses VBA in his risk management work. I'm going to ask him...

When I try to use the debugger in Dev C++ it always says "your project does not have debugging info, do you want to enable debugging and rebuild your project?" - so I hit yes, it compiles and then it doesn't seem to do anything. I want to debug such that I can step through each line and see how...

Any advice - my MS Visual C++ 6.0 program isn't working. It compiles programs with no errors but then gives errors when I try to run them. I unistalled the program and upon reinstall, it gave me this error: "Setup could not open the file c:\windows\system32\ds32gt.cll" - any advice?