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What the fuck is with you 'Eastern Staters' and Asians fillign your unis? Over 'ere in UWA we probably have 40% asians MAX in commerce - since you only need 80 to get in all the asian parents make their children do med/dent/law.

Even though mathematics units are subsitised in my degree the contact hours are only 3-4 hrs of lectures a week so you might aswell study on your own. With that being said I'd suggest computer science or engineering.

Read an article a few weeks ago regarding someone setting up housing backed derivitives - this way people can hedge against their housing meaning if the property market collapses they don't lose as much. Learning methods of investing and setting up a computer for daytrading will be my summer...

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Economics is pretty mathsy

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I've heard its the way to go due to 24 hr markets, unlimited liquidy, can sell short without a price rise and w/e. It does look like theres too many external forces for me to try to start investing in though. My bet is the yuan will rise quite a bit if the US government starts trying to get rid...

I'm talking more about the economist, WA business news and general updates more than specific finance news. At this stage I'm not making a passive income (3.5% simple interest or some shit) though I have made a few speculations which have gone well - I think I'm going to start trading FoReX or...

I'dve rather put some money in tamiflu when swine flu came out than pull some mathematics out of my ass to choose my equity

I'm Managing Director of a company that sells cookbooks - started production this week after raising $1200 capital through shares. Going to liquidate the company in 2 months with return on capital at 139% pretty easily - it's not very hard to make money in entreprenuership if your not a total...

Bachelor of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (ATAR = 80) -> 100k out if I get a trading job with Optiver (D average, interest in financial markets, etc.) Thats a three year degree compared to law and medicine which wouldn't make 100k for a while I believe.

20 hrs a day ;)

Most people who do highschool economics think that they don't need to study economics because it is ~80% the same as first year then fail because they didn't look at any of the new stuff (lost like 25% on my mid sem exam because I didn't review utility analysis.)

In banking you are paid to kiss as opposed to kick ass at the end of the day.

Economics is quite mathematical compared to the standard commerce major.

If IB/law/medicine was so good you'd expect it to be alot higher up on the 'best jobs' as opposed to the 'fastest ways to get rich' lists

You'd be alright to do a straight media and communication degree if you can show clear interest in sporting - hopefully there is an oppurtunity for you to do some sports orientated journalism in university.

Playing WoW for 2 months during my midsems dropped my calculus test results from 70 to 40s. 'Relaxing' instead of studying for the week before my exams (doing casual practice exams etc) made me get 45% in my physics and chem exams when I was got 70% average in my coursework and mid sem/trial...

There is quite a fair bit of speed-mathematics techniques viewable of youtube - YouTube - Secret Trick : Math Division Long was one I watched which looked quite interesting. Thanks for the post - is there really a need for such quick mental maths in trading? EDIT: It's funny that on page 48-49...

she/he is HSC 2011 so the level of information required would be quite low.