Comments on: Four Thousand Splendid Suns

By: Lumilog

Lumilog — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:38:33 +0000

Hi LGP, Yes the study material is included. If you look at the fine print at the bottom of this link you'll see that starting with 2008 the exam registration includes the "complete curriculum", which is the 18 lbs. of study guides. Good Luck, Lumilog

By: LGP

LGP — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:47:14 +0000

A simple point I’d like clarification on. Looking at the cost pages on the CFA site, I would have to pay the following for the level 1 exam in June 08:

Program enrollment: $390
Exam registration: $688

Tell me, would I receive the (18lb box of!) study material included in these costs or do I have to pay extra for it?

Thanks,
LGP

By: Lumilog

Lumilog — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:30:02 +0000

Hi Ray,

This looks like a very interesting piece of software to check out. Thanks much for the link. While I consider myself relatively experienced when it comes to trading securities, I’m a total newbie with options apart from covered calls. I’m looking forward to getting to that chapter in the study guides and then when I know what I’m doing I’m going to give SamoaSky a test drive.

Thanks,
Lumilog

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:28:31 +0000

Great information on people trying to break in from non finance fields. I’m reading another book “Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals” – essentially a book for computer/math/physics people working on wall street. Apparently, Wall streets employees a lot of computer technologists as a lot of this number crunching and analysis is done through software. Perhaps a good way to break in for people from non traditional finance backgrounds then would be to either begin to work on this level here while getting the designation – I wonder if the CFA would count this work as four years experience (say if you’re developing visualization software for better analsysis of options pricing through screens on wallstreet). Here’s one that I saw recently released as opensource (free) from these guys: samoasky.com

By: Lumilog

Lumilog — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:10:33 +0000

I originally read it that way too…
-Lumilog

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:53:16 +0000

correction, you are right I missread the requirements for entrance , and to be chartered.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:30:36 +0000

Lumilog i read the CFA site and the requirements to be chartered are a BA degree OR 4 years work experience. So i believe that significantly lowers the time needed to be designated by your calculations

By: DC

DC — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:31:53 +0000

I am planning on the Jun08 level 1. Schweser is enough or should I be reading other books as well? I have no accounting background

By: Lumilog

Lumilog — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:24:32 +0000

Thanks for the comments CS. And good advice on the ethics section.

I’m hoping to have time after a 1st pass through the study guides to go back and review – or work problems from 3rd party sources.

However with the speed at which I’m currently moving, I don’t know if I will indeed have any time left over.

-Lumilog

By: CS

CS — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:09:04 +0000

Btw, I haven’t touched this material for a long time. I came from EE backgroup as well. The difference is that I did my undergraduate in EE but didn’t have much pure engineering work experience. After 1 short year working as an engineering sales, I went back to school and did my master in accounting and just passed Canadian CA exam and working in an accounting firm waiting for my work experience.

I am thinking of taking CFA now cos I registered it long time ago (3 years) and never had a chance to finished it.

So good luck for all of us.