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Ask HN: Starting university, a few questions about HFT

7 points by timtamboy63 ↗ HN
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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officialchicken
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!

timtamboy63
Cheers buddy! Guess I have a lot to learn then, should be interesting.
ig1
Get industry internships
timtamboy63
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?