Tal Fishman

@freddy nonetheless, Chris has a valid point that you have been down-voting much more than up-voting, and that it's a bit hypocritical to complain about a down-vote (even if all your down-votes were deserved) when you haven't been up-voting very much

@freddy Don't take it personally. Certain users, myself included at times, feel such a devotion to the site that we may overreact to any perceived misinformation.

I'm not sure suspending him now would achieve much, as he seems to post very infrequently. He's only visited on 24 days in the last 7 months.

Although that latest question is so bad it's just embarassing, do you think we should move to delete it?

I'm trying to get him to realize how bad his questions are by suggesting to him he delete his own questions.

@chrisaycock I agree his contributions have mostly been garbage. I'd support a second time-out as soon as he posts another down-voted question.

For example, one guy worked as an insurance analyst at a major insurance firm and eventually moved over to their investment department, before making the move to a pure investment firm.

@BobJansen My path was PhD in finance, went to AFA (ASSA) meetings in my last year. I applied to all the finance jobs, got a job as a quant at a hedge fund, and since then I can call myself a quant. I know other guys at my firm just applied directly to the firm after doing other stuff. Sometimes one has to change jobs a few times before finding a good quant role.

@chrisaycock that question is also not a good format for a Q&A. Better to just tell the guy to google around. If he wants to know my story, then he should approach me in chat.

@BobJansen I agree with Chris, everybody's story is different (BTW didn't get the ping, SE only allows 1 ping per post).

@QuantGuy thanks. I couldn't find an ungated version, but I did find a presentation from QWAFAFEW. Didn't find the performance figures in there all that compelling, though, so I didn't pursue.

@chrisaycock The proportion of traffic coming from organic search has also been on the rise. A small number of those are true quants, and we do seem to be getting a trickle of new high-quality users, such as 1920, 1969, 1988.

FYI daily visits and question down-voting are both at all time highs. Incidentally, there does seem to be a correlation. For daily visits, I am excluding one-off surges from news.ycombinator.com.

@JoshuaUlrich No problem, thanks to you, too.

@JoshuaUlrich done

@JoshuaUlrich I updated my question to clarify my view on free vs. non-free data requests.

@JoshuaUlrich I also think it is likely legitimate, provided the OP does not insist on the data being free.

@JoshuaUlrich yes, that's why I edited it to remove references to free, and now I think it is acceptable.

@JoshuaUlrich The spam's been pretty steady all along, I think.

or LinkedIn

If you wish to say something to me privately, we can do it over e-mail.

something about SE policy of complete openness

I think even if we switch to a "private" room, the conversation is still public

I see

knowing may help answer ur question

why are they incomplete?

Then you probably also don't care how exactly you deal with local holidays.

I think the title is bad, not sure how to rephrase

well, if you ask about asset allocation, and you are working with daily data, this should be a problem you have encountered

I edited it just now, is it clearer?

btw, your question on estimating volatility made me think of it

so, looks like a bunch of ppl misunderstood my question

hi

@SRKX are you here now?

@SRKX I was. If you want to ping me in chat, use the @...

Now, it so happens that in the case of most options, the price may change a lot while implied volatility is relatively steady, hence participants in the markets for options have adopted the convention of speaking about implied volatility rather than price.

Black and Scholes invented the term implied volatility to explain a parameter in their model. It does not exist as a real thing that can be measured outside of a model.

@CQM ok

@CQM which phrases?

I have no comment on whether the presence or absence of volume concommitant with a change in prices has any predictive power. I don't know that it does, but neither do I know that it doesn't.

When people use supply and demand to explain price moves, they are not wrong, but neither are they saying anything meaningful. If prices have changed, then by definition supply and demand have changed. It is just something financial journalists say when they have nothing better to say, kind of like saying the market rallied today because some sellers felt like raising their prices today while some buyers were OK with the higher prices.

Sure, but you must have gotten the mistaken notion that prices change because of more buyers or sellers from somewhere, and surely not VIX white papers. Wherever you read that, just know that you are reading something by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about.

@CQM VIX white paper is just a very specific document regarding their methodology for an index they created, not meant as a practical guide to understanding implied volatility.

@msh210 After we first talked I googled msh210, your amazon account came up, and for some reason I just remembered it.

@msh210 Hi Michael

Particularly for these obscure info questions, you need to reach the broadest range of ppl possible, and that's more likely with a featured tag than a chat a-thon.

@IsaacMoses True, and I doubt you would ever want to relinquish your ♦, but others may.

Or ask users with over 20k rep (currently 3), since even once the site graduates anything over 20k is irrelevant.

@Muro my point is that no place is perfect, but the US is still undeniably better than at least 90% of other countries by population. It is worthwhile to think every once in a while of how horrible other countries can be (e.g. North Korea)

@Muro can you name a country where having friends in high places will never prevent you from going to jail? Welcome to the real world, US is no different than anywhere else.