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Are there energy contracts listed in Europe?

drumroll . . . . . . PResenting you Chicago's newest tradaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh baby! "What's really good now??? I'm about to do this thaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnggg son! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Get ready for this! "

Here's a good one: Know where to get a good haircut downtown? Anybody go to the guy in the CBOE building?

He's not going to get it in a MFE program. Hands-on is still the best training, even though many programs are making or have made an effort to lean towards real-world situations. On of the best is IIT in Chicago. I think they can do this because they don't have such stringent expectations in...

Trying to see if anyone works for or has in the past worked for, Rho. -thanks guys

Whata happened with your guys' new office extension?

She didn't even call me back. That's after I left her a message. I'm still hopeful about the Dec 15th one. I went back in for a second interview. I was much more comfortable this time. I think they noticed also. I have another position lined up but its "no salary". Still Lookin. -chris

What MFE program are you looking at? I can tell you that a lot will be left up to you after you get your degree.

Mojo, Big help, thanks a bunch. Good luck with your automation stuff by the way. I'm sort of "climbing that same ladder". Going to a lot of interviews in Chicago, looking for a entry position. ANyway - first time with C#. Seems like you can do a lot of stuff like Vb.net. I'm going to...

I follow most of this. I have a question about the resultsGrid.DataSource = historicalData; Do I need to initialize resultsGrid, or include a header or something to use that object? -uncleTom

So to find a Z, I understand the first step is to generate a random number. This is what I know about generating random numbers: You can generate from a uniform distribution or a normal distribution, depending on the function used. I need to understand the first step. In the example...

I realize this is Statistics 101, but what we're generating is a Z score, or std_devs away from the mean, right?

Hi guys, My question is specifically about the Z "variate" value. Is this just a normal-distributed random number between 0 and 1? I'm not drawing the connection to Z and the normal distribution.

Put it like this . . if you don't pull down good money two quarters in a row . . . you know you won't be working there much longer.