Ask HN: Starting university, a few questions about HFT

7 points·timtamboy63··8 comments

Hey HN,

I start university this fall, and am very interested in the HFT industry. What can I do before/during university to increase my chances of getting a HFT job? I'll be majoring in CS, minoring in finance.

Cheers

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I'm majoring in CS and Finance too and if you haven't checked these HFT articles out yet, they are 100% worth the read and are very interesting:

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology.html

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology2.html

I have read them, actually they're the articles that changed HFT from a 'meh, maybe I'll do that' into a 'hey, that looks super interesting, that's what I'll aim for'. Cheers though!

Order of importance as I'm asked by recruiters seems to be:

Writing and debugging multi-threaded code in C/C++; learn the FIX protocol; learn JAVA+R+FORTRAN; work with source code from a popular ticker plant; study timing attacks from security researchers.

Bottom of the list seems to be open a trading account and start trading in normal time (acquire domain knowledge).

EDIT: good luck at uni!

Cheers buddy! Guess I have a lot to learn then, should be interesting.

Trying developing one http://www.stoneridgetechnology.com/products/pci-e-developme...

That looks pretty interesting, cheers!

Get industry internships

Would they accept someone that's working towards a Bachelors in CS? I've heard that most of the jobs need a Masters or PhD, but for an internship, do you think an undergrad would be able to score an internship?

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