As a trader, I second this comment. You’ll need some serious statistical expertise and top of the line computing power to find and trade on positive alphas. Plus, you’ll need a lot more volume to justify exotic positions you’ll have to take to make money on those arbitrage opportunities.
Just buy passive index funds (S&P 500 for example) and you’ll likely come out better than the active traders in the long run
Actually curious. The college tuition inflation rate has been disproportionately higher than the average consumer inflation rate over the last 20 years or so. I’m sure some of that difference is actually justifiable, but it’s hard to believe that the tuition still wouldn’t cover the full cost of educating a student with the kind of inflation rate that we’ve been seeing – where did the money go?. (not being sarcastic), I really would love to hear some insider view on this.
I got my MBA at Booth through its weekend program. Pretty much everyone I’ve met through the program has either stayed at their old company and received a sizable pay increase or were able to find entry level MBA positions somewhere else along the full timers. You get access to on campus recruiting and career services, so as long as you’re not trying to break into investment banking or PE firms, I would say you can get the same jobs as the full timers.
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As a trader, I second this comment. You’ll need some serious statistical expertise and top of the line computing power to find and trade on positive alphas. Plus, you’ll need a lot more volume to justify exotic positions you’ll have to take to make money on those arbitrage opportunities.
Just buy passive index funds (S&P 500 for example) and you’ll likely come out better than the active traders in the long run
Actually curious. The college tuition inflation rate has been disproportionately higher than the average consumer inflation rate over the last 20 years or so. I’m sure some of that difference is actually justifiable, but it’s hard to believe that the tuition still wouldn’t cover the full cost of educating a student with the kind of inflation rate that we’ve been seeing – where did the money go?. (not being sarcastic), I really would love to hear some insider view on this.
I got my MBA at Booth through its weekend program. Pretty much everyone I’ve met through the program has either stayed at their old company and received a sizable pay increase or were able to find entry level MBA positions somewhere else along the full timers. You get access to on campus recruiting and career services, so as long as you’re not trying to break into investment banking or PE firms, I would say you can get the same jobs as the full timers.