what should my major be?

I am going onto sophomore and need to decide my major. I am primarily interested in market making and S&T.

Want to be a trader and my options are

computer science + finance single major
(it is called computing & financial management)

or

Math majors (statistics,applied math, etc) + computer science minor

cfm kids tend to lean towards more technical jobs like electronic market making and algo trading

a few stat majors go work for prop firms (with less quant) I think.

The thing is I do not know what I am truly interested and what the best fit is for me.

any recommendations or
thoughts?

3 Comments
 

I would definitely lean toward finance + computer science. It should look great to a broad set of firms/jobs. Also if you can handle the course load try to toss in a stat minor because trading/HF interviews tend to have a fair amount of stat brain teasers.

 

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