-Why did you choose to go to polytechnic instead of jc in the first place?
-What made you want to drop out of your polytechnic course and transfer to jc?
-At the end, do you regret switching to JC instead of committing to your original polytechnic course?
-What do you wish you knew before making the decision to switch?
-What do you wish you knew before your first JAE?
There’s posts of Singaporeans who are struggling to even get employed and living off the cheapest caifan sharing about the job market being absolute trash, and there’s posts of Singapore taking home 5 figure monthly income asking where to invest their large accumulated capital. Could anyone offer a consolidated view of the job market, relating level of education (and prestige of education) and field of education to employability? Maybe taking into account those with and without internships?
With pure technical, especially mechanical or algorithmic strategies, I imagine backtesting and estimating edge from past data is way simpler. However, if you were to take a more qualitative approach (defining a strategy based on understanding of macro and micro economics using values such as interest rates, PPI/CPI, yield curve, etc), how would you “measure an edge”?
There’s so many different types of fundamental data, so many ways to interpret it, and many different lengths of time you can choose to project into the future. I’m curious to know what are your fundamental analysis frameworks (which data you choose to look at, how you interpret it) and your analysis routines (daily? weekly? monthly? based on earnings reports dates? whenever there’s huge political announcement?)
17M, Y1 NP Banking and Finance. I am looking to go into a finance related field in the future (Trading, Equity/commodity analyst, IB)[Yes I understand that they are vastly different. I was quite specific in the past and was warned against focusing in too early, so this is just a range of what I would like to do]. My current plan is of course to work hard to get a good GPA, try to apply for internships every long break I get, doing self study in investing and trading and coding, and build my own projects on the side (would like advise on what projects would be useful). Other then that, I would like advice on the following:
What university programme should I target?
-I am a little confused looking at the university IGPs, seeing only their programmes. I am a little lost on the majors that can be pursued and would like advise on which majors and respective universities would be suitable for me.
What extra-curricular/external certifications would be useful for me to get?
-I will definitely try for NP's mathematics diploma plus understanding that my base mathematics education under this diploma may be weaker or even inadequate for many useful degree majors (e.g. Finance, Mathematics, Mathematical Sciences), but other than that are there any "diploma plus" or even external certifications (e.g. CFA [I can't think of any other certifications that can be pursued while in poly]) I should pursue?
Any other advice you may have?
Thank you for your replies in advance.