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depending upon your background and training the .Net/VB/C# route could be an answer. On the other hand if you will eventually need to scale up a commercial system then you probably will not want to base it upon .Net for a variety of risk, cost, and technical reasons. However if you are just...

These are nice packages - I use them. I also use Matlab - although not so much anymore - and Mathematica. Engineers are usually trained these days to use Matlab. Some Scientists are trained to use Mathematica and Maple as well as other pakcages available through national labs and many of...

The best description of the job I have seen ..... Some of the comments here are confusing and completely counter to my experience: this one is as close to the reality I have seen. I think if you can go into the job (or a limited training program) you want directly from school (MBA or PhD)...

These still exist in a couple of forms - on floor clerk jobs or off-floor trading assistant jobs. Both are difficult to get and usually require a pretty tough hide. However if you find the right person and/or company and are willing to put in a couple of years of listening more and talking less...

Funny thing about the markets ..... I keep meeting mathematicians that opted to chuck academia and enter the trading fray and most of them far exceeded their university compensation. .

Python is a useful tool: In fact, I really like all of the open source stack - LAMP along with C++, php, python etc. New development is within this environment and we have relegated $soft to legacy only applications. I like the Java open source moves but even trading interfaces can usually...

.. How about the fellow mentioned in the Wall street journal today ? ... Worth a couple billion and outperformed nearly everyone .....

Trade Secret is the applicable terminology in these situations. Only the inventors of the system need to know the details. The signals can be generated from a secure system - as others have said - and published to people or other systems in order to execute the trades. Unless the system is...