frpapaya, pls come inhow come i cannot reply u after your qn " Are you GY?" is it because there are aleady too many layers? anyway, i am not GY. Neither i am in the Finance field. that somehow explains why i am going through the trouble to take the CFA exams. cheers

Yes, i am aware of the requirement of 3-yr experience.I just hope by passing all 3 levels of exams consecutively at least add some favour to my CVs. Thanks for your advice. But i am not sure if MFE is my cup of tea or not. I ain't good at computing:( Btw, really don't understand why nowadays investment analysis can go so damned "techie". Don't think Buffett would know how to use all these fancy stuff. Sigh, any finanical institution is willing to employ a Buffett's disciple...?

hehe...actually, my only strength is computing,techie .... :D I'm now writing my thesis on Pricing High dim American option. -__-!! My MSN is: Linyi2001@hotmail.com Have a chat,guy, if u free....^^

what is cds ?thx

I have some ideas on the technical analysisIn my opinion, both the technical investors and foundamental investors make the trend together. Although for foundamental investors, speculation may not be their manner. But they often buy a lot of shares and hold for a relatively long period, say more than 1 years. Buffet and Peter Lynch are the examples of such investors. Although they don't want to speculate, what they have done still affect the market. That is they locked a big quantity of shares in the market. As a result, the share supplied in the market will be less. For the rest of share, technical investors would easily push the price up. Therefore, the trend theory always works. Especially today's investors has learned both foundamental and technical analysis in their school. So technical analysis is becoming a common sense. In my opinion, small investors could work with both theories. Since they can enter or exit the market very quickly. That's their advantage. But for the Charted, I think it's still (more...)