Do you often hear things like this:
"Isn't it true that finance majors can learn CQF?"
"Is CQF difficult to test?"
"Can CQF be used as a starting point for entry quantification?"
In this way, our classmate who has just obtained a certificate of CQF has also heard and hesitated, but he has not given up learning CFF because of these words. What has he experienced now that he is opening the door to a new world of quantification? Let's take a look at his story.
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Take the CQF idea
My name is graduated from the University of Southern Denmark, bachelor's and master's degrees are materials and chemistry, after graduation mainly engaged in steel, nickel ore, copper, nickel import and export and entrepot trade, doing work that has nothing to do with finance.
Because I have always liked the field of finance and the exploration of new field knowledge, I learned about the CQF certificate after taking the CFA Level I. Python was the language I had always wanted to learn but couldn't get started with, and financial mathematics was something I desperately wanted to learn, so I postponed the CFA Level II course and went straight to CQF.
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After I finished studying, I felt that the door to a new world had been opened by me. In addition, I think that the quantitative cake in China will become bigger and bigger, and the corresponding scale of capital management will become larger and larger, and the future development can be expected.
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CQF helped me
CQF has greatly improved my productivity, including fundamental research and the development of trading models.
The topic I wrote about in my dissertation was machine learning. After the final exam, about a month later, through the extension of the final project, a new algorithmic trading was discovered. This was previously unimaginable. Inspiration for trading models keeps coming up, and there are currently more than a dozen pending model ideas on record.
Among them, RL was very suitable for me and also spent a long time researching during the final project. Although the final project was not used in the end, the future will be based on hidden Markov as a mathematical basis for the model.
In addition, the books recommended by the teachers are also very useful, have been read through several times, the content is profound, and it requires patience to learn.
I have a strong hunch that the knowledge in it will serve as a cornerstone for the construction of my predictive model. Finally, the final project's arbitrage deal is also a model that will look for opportunities to complete, and it is also a good weapon.
During my time at Gordon's studies at CQF, the output and certificates of my thesis were only a part of the harvest, and I benefited a lot from the intangible wealth.
The first is curiosity and desire to explore expertise. This CQF experience gave me a new understanding of quantification, and I also know that my level is insufficient, such as the difficulty of mathematics is not small, I need to spend a lot of time in class to deduce formulas, Python proficiency is not enough, and I also need to often check information and read books.
Another example is the stack model, lstm and RL are not very understanding, just look up the information of the learning video on the Internet, and gradually deepen the understanding.
I spend about 5 hours a day learning CQF, and basically every Chinese lesson is broadcast live. Generally speaking, Gordon's Chinese live classes are the mainstay, supplemented by English classes, and alternate learning.
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What I would like to say to future CQF students
First, look at CQF with an objective attitude. Don't think that CQF is hard to learn. In my opinion, early contact can make you have more sufficient knowledge reserves, and you will not be busy when learning more complex things.
Second, CQF can be a hobby. After learning CQF, it felt like opening the door to a new world, and the more I studied, the more dissatisfied I became, and I always wanted to absorb more knowledge.
Finally, with regard to my future, I plan to do quantitative research or money management.
In addition, for those who lack self-confidence, especially 40 years old like me, big or small, and consider transformation in the workplace, CQF is not difficult, it is difficult that you do not have a strong desire for knowledge. Send you a line from the Korean drama "You Raise Me Up" as an encouragement:
I give my life a maximum of 2-30 points, but I will not be inferior and will not be afraid to fight with others. Walking in the world, should eat and drink should be good to yourself, I manage others to point out, how noisy the nonsense is.
Life is not halfway through, the road in this life is still long, looking up, half bleak and half of the galaxy is vast. Don't dodge, people will experience all kinds of challenges in their lives. There is no end to inferiority, and I advise you to turn back to the shore as soon as possible.
So, CQF is the starting point, not the end point.
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