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+36 What are some examples of “edge” you have seen 13 3y
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+23 What tools would you use on your own? 21 3y
+25 Why is 75% of this forum MM HF trolls? 10 3y
+23 I Have No Degree, No Connections & I Want To Break Into The Industry. Any Suggestions? 11 3y
+17 What is your favourite Pandas online module 2 3y
+7 What are some questions you'd always ask when meeting with sellside or company management? 3 3y
+18 P72 from a non/semitarget 9 3y
+1 Distressed Hedge Funds 1 3y
+9 Citadel Process Timeline 1 3y
0 Help me choose between these 5 internship offers ! 5 3y
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0 Balyasny Asset Management - Salary & Bonus - Quantitative Research Data 3y
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+42 Macro/RV Credit 5 3y
+28 Worth holding out for SM HF - London 14 3y
+3 Addition 1 3y
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+19 What do hedge fund employees do in the interim after they set up all their long term stock positions? 7 3y
+6 How is quant compensation taxed? 3 3y
+22 Tail risk funds 6 3y
0 Goldman Sachs - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 3y
+13 Understanding what is Risk & Alpha? 7 3y
+17 Small Cap Stocks for Personal Investing 7 3y
+10 Activist macro funds (I.e. James Bond villain) 19 3y
+4 Kirkoswald Asset Management 3 3y
0 Worldquant - Salary & Bonus - Quantitative Research Data 3y
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+1 Hedge Fund or S&T 3 3y
+40 Should I start a HF with less than a million dollar? 24 3y
+5 Event shops Europe 13 3y
+23 Are single manager "buy and hold" concentrated funds dead? 28 3y
+3 Hartree Partners Quant Analyst 2 3y
+6 S&P500 dividends not reinvested 3 3y
+24 Are Investing Skills Something You're Born With or Learn Later On in Life? 10 3y
+4 HF Incubator Details. Could some kind gentleman help fill in the blanks? 0 3y
+7 SWE intern: Two sigma vs optiver vs Akuna vs drw vs IMC 4 3y
0 Abdiel Capital - Interview - Generalist Data 3y
+3 Partnership economics? 1 3y
0 PE/HF London Summer 2024 update 1 3y
+3 Earnings calls 2 3y
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+9 Does this role exist? 5 3y
+6 Darwinex for building track record 0 3y
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+10 Interview help, DE Shaw Groups and Structure 2 3y
+16 Point72 Wonderlic Test 14 3y
+46 Typical Large Fund Long short Comp after 2 as analyst? 32 3y
+10 Is being a math nerd the only way to break into HF industry? 3 3y
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+17 Good Returns 45 3y
+3 HF case studies 1 3y
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+11 Mathematically intense jobs in finance? 4 3y
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+15 Post Update - Selling Algorithms to HFs 3 3y
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0 Blackstone Group - Salary & Bonus - Hedge Fund Data 3y
+15 Recruiting for HF 1 3y
+12 Thoughts on Eisler capital 14 3y
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+7 Millennium Platform 2 3y
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