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Travis,
My guess is that at least 30% of the computer science graduates from the
top schools (Stanford, MIT, CMU) have a decade of programming
experience. Not only do they have more experience, they are (probably)
younger than you are, smarter than you are, and harder working than you
are. Now that the Internet has blown up, Wall Street has regained its
position as the place that provides the best compensation for CS
graduates. Check out www.topcoder.com if you want a peek at the sort of
talent that you would be up against.
If you are looking for a way to make money, competing against 22 year
olds with IQs of 140 is probably not the way to do it.
Michael
-----Original Message-----
From: Travis Saimoto [mailto:support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 9:43 PM
To: Omega List
Subject: Trading System Programmer (2)
Thanks for all the quick response first. But I can't seem to get the
answer
for becoming a full-time trading system programmer for a firm. I'm very
interested in this job and wondering if you have any opinions and advice
for
the career.
Thanks in advance, again.
Travis Saimoto
Last message:
Obviously, there are a lot of things Tradestation/EasyLanguage cannot
do.
(Ex. You are following 2 markets, trade Market X if you are up 2% on
Market
Y). So I've decided to learn how program in C/C++.
Now that I've started learning and started to grasp the whole
programming,
I've realized how much more I can do toward creating a system. It's fun
trying to improve your system and trading, simply I'm a system
developing
junky and thinking of career change. I'm wondering if there any trading
system programmer in O-list and how you got started. Also, how much
skill
you need to be, to start.
Thanks in advance.
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