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Geez, riskarb, I was going to spot the guy $100.

How much are you looking for?

Do what you want, dude, I'm just letting you know.

Yeah, I know that's what you meant, but you'd be fighting the historical performance if you entered it now.

Historically, long Nov, short Oct is an extremley reliable spread trade at this time of year.

omgdallas, the people on this thread have painted a pretty ridiculously pessimistic view of your options at this point, in my opinion. (For what it's worth, I'm currently employed by a trading firm, who has quite a number of programmer's on staff.) I'd say you have two routes to go. If you...

I'd still like to meet ET'ers. Just don't try and send me to a gay bar again.

Sorry, I like my job too much. However, good post for anybody else looking to go back to school.

Eh, doesn't that require me to be in PA?

I'm a youthful 27.

Ah, I see what you're saying. I misread your post. That's fine with me. I have no intention of getting a PhD.

Imamic, keep me posted on how things go. Even if I go to Chicago, I'd still consider taking classes at IIT later for various things. Also, if I don't get into Chicago, I'll be at IIT anyway.

I'm in a similar situation, and I'm about your age. My opinion is that you should go back for a technical degree, computer science or financial engineering. I'm done with the CFA program (if the results I get at the end of this month are positive), and while I learned a lot in the program...

No, if you poke around the U of C website, it says the degree granted is a full Master's.

Gonna do comp sci. I was a math and philosophy undergrad, with some grad work in both.

Good luck with that. After some word-of-mouth research and the comments on here, I've decided to apply to the U of C program in computer science once I get my CFA results back in August. If I haven't picked up any financial engineering on my on by the time I'm done with that, I guess I...

Much depends on the quality of the firm. These sorts of contracts are not uncommon, though.

Jesus Christ, Karl Marx? The guy wants an overview of economics; why would you suggest such a monumental waste of time as that? Just get any intermediate level macroeconomics books. Gregory Mankiw has a very highly praised one. Just search for his name at amazon.com. Also, Economics...

They will not even give you the time of day if you can't program competently, more than competently actually.

Thanks for comments, folks. Bernoulli, I'd agree one of the other two programs would be preferable for working at a bank, but I'm happy where I'm at and just want to contribute more directly to the development process. I figure the IIT program covers the basics of financial engineering, and...