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Ask HN: What's one bit of advice you'd give to your younger self?

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Re: Ask HN: What's one bit of advice you'd give to your younger self?

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Post by sordidasset » Thu, Jun 08, 2017, 7:51 PM UTC

Don't get the finance degree. Everything they teach you will be theory that is literally from the 1950s and has been empirically proven incorrect. Almost all the jobs open to you will require you to be fundamentally dishonest.

Go for a math or CS degree.

Re: Ask HN: What's one bit of advice you'd give to your younger self?

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Post by sordidasset » Thu, Jun 08, 2017, 7:53 PM UTC

SirLJ wrote: post #20

Start looking into quantitative stock trading systems, invest the time to find a winning strategy + sound risk management and the compound interest will make you a very rich person (reach person = someone who makes more money that he needs to spend without working more than few hours a week if any), I really wish I started 20 years earlier...

Any advice on where to look? I majored in finance because I thought this is what I would learn. Instead they told me to trust in DDM. Waste of money.

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