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March 17, 2007
Barrage of Capital Markets Apps
The resume of a Derivatives Business Analyst caught my eye because it made reference to more systems than the typical IT resume:
Bloomberg, Open Link Endur, Charles River Compliance, Charles River Investment Management, Charles River IMS, Sungard InTrader, Reuters, SunGard Global Trader, Summit, Portia, Calypso, Triple Point energy deal valuation application, Charles River Compliance, Latent Zero (Sentinel, Minerva and Tesseract modules), Wall Street Systems, Quotron, Dow-Jones Telerate, Bloomberg Gateway, Bloomberg Portfolio Order Management System, SunGard Middle Office Manager
and if thats not enough, the person is also proficient in generic analysis tools:
SQL Query, business intelligence tools such as Business Objects, Cognos, MS Excel Pivot Tables, SQL, and Show Case Query and Report Writer
Becoming truly proficient in such a multitude of tools has to be a career in itself, which makes you wonder when do they find the time to do the actual analysis?
It can be a sobering experience to see what analysts and traders use on a daily basis to do their jobs: a combination of home-grown web apps, highly sophisticated excel applications that may have more macro code than data, industry apps, etc. which all leaves you with the impression that one place where time is not money is on Wall Street.
Enterprise Web 2.0 can change all this by creating composite applications that do everything that a Wall Street analyst or trader needs from one user interface in real-time and there is a pot of gold awaiting the software company that gets it done in less than a decade.
http://blogs.appfusion.com/?p=14
Posted by Arshak Navruzyan at March 17, 2007 6:23 PM
Comments
The resume belongs to me. Not only do I have time to do the actual analysis, I also lead review sessions with the traders and portfolio managers, write executive testing summaries, publish and author a blog on derivatives trading, trade several simulated accounts online on several Quant forums on the internet, and last but not least, continue to pore over several books, one of which you should read: How To Think Like Leonard Da Vinci" by Michael J Gelb. You may learn a thing or two.
With warm and sincere regards,
--Phil Green
Posted by: Phil Green at May 17, 2007 11:27 AM
