Beginner needs Help

[Vishal Patel]

Hello,

My name is Vishal Patel, i'm currently a sophmore at rutgers university majoring in Accounting and Finance. I would like to work on wall street after i graduate as a financial analyst or something relating to trading. I just want some advice on what kind of courses i can take that will be good for wall street. And also if you can recommend any books for me about trading, financial enginering or anything that will help me learn more about finance and quants will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Start at quantnet.com/guide

 

[Vishal Patel]

There are alot of books in that list, can you tell me where to start if i wanted to learn more about Quant finance and finance modeling, because this all kind of new to me.

 

[babinu]

You can learn about definition of quant from the Mark Joshi's book (the first one on the list ) and good idea of how wall street works in this book http://www.amazon.com/Quantitative-Professionals-McGraw-Hill-Investment-ebook/dp/B005C3WUVC/. These 2 should be a good starting point.

 

[Ken Abbott]

Accounting
Probability
Inference
Time Series
SQL

 

[Barny]

Ken

Why do you recommend Accounting as the number one thing to know above all else for a quant?