A while ago I said I'd do a thread of recommended books for people looking to get into quant finance, or just starting their careers. This is that thread. It's v biased to buy side because that's where my experience is -- derivatives/risk quants look elsewhere pls!
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Finally it is geared towards quants who are going to work on strategies with a multi-day time horizon. I simply don't think that there are any good books covering HFT or mid-frequency, although very happy to be corrected.
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I really have to add the two books that convinced me to go into quant finance when I read them back in ~2006. First "My Life as a Quant" by
@EmanuelDerman which blends descriptions of options pricing models with great autobiographical colorhttps://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Quant-Reflections-Physics/dp/0470192739/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1623793070&sr=8-1 …Show this thread -
Second "Traders, Guns and Money" by ex-derivatives trader Satyajit Das, which is just a perfect description of the wild west of derivatives markets pre-financial crisishttps://www.amazon.com/Traders-Guns-Money-Unknowns-Derivatives/dp/0273776762/ref=sr_1_1?crid=NKKAGBM3LR10&dchild=1&keywords=traders%2C+guns+%26+money&qid=1623793250&sprefix=traders%2C+gun%2Caps%2C235&sr=8-1 …
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Now I’ve read it I’d add Trading at the Speed of Light (MacKenzie) which is amazing background reading for anyone thinking of going into HFThttps://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0691211388/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_HSYP91NNH409YFB10AR8 …
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What would you recommend for really learning differential equations? My university texts and class concentrated on waus to solve diff eq but didn’t really teach how to apply diff eq in circumstances.
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