I used to be quite interested in finance or 'quant-finance'.
Besides from taking too many courses in analysis and 'applied' mathematics like stochastic processes, bayesian methods, SDE's, etc.
I have searched through a-lot of shitty Reddit forums and bad YouTube channels.
They are all bad, and no-one is actually doing anything.
Sometimes there is Kaggle-competition like this one [1] where people are actually doing something and not just implementing a naive Black-Scholes model in Python with toy data, but again, in my experience it all linear models that run in production.
Depending on where you live I think there is a much higher change connecting with other people with engaging in finance-clubs at your local university or maybe get an internship/job.
The only real value I have got out from searching/reading about (quant) finance is [2] A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market, but you can skip the 5 first chapters.
I used to be quite interested in finance or 'quant-finance'. Besides from taking too many courses in analysis and 'applied' mathematics like stochastic processes, bayesian methods, SDE's, etc. I have searched through a-lot of shitty Reddit forums and bad YouTube channels.
They are all bad, and no-one is actually doing anything. Sometimes there is Kaggle-competition like this one [1] where people are actually doing something and not just implementing a naive Black-Scholes model in Python with toy data, but again, in my experience it all linear models that run in production.
Depending on where you live I think there is a much higher change connecting with other people with engaging in finance-clubs at your local university or maybe get an internship/job.
The only real value I have got out from searching/reading about (quant) finance is [2] A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market, but you can skip the 5 first chapters.
1: https://www.kaggle.com/c/optiver-realized-volatility-predict...
2: https://www.amazon.com/Man-All-Markets-Street-Dealer/dp/1400...