Need help! Deciding what to study to become a trader!

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I need help deciding which units would be MOST beneficial to study, for a career in Trading, either for hedge funds or proprietary firms e.g. Optiver, whom I’ve heard many good things about.

Howard Bandy has posted this advice to darkhorse70 at post #13 on the thread Trading Ideas:

"Take courses in math through calculus and linear algebra, computer science using whichever languages the department recommends and course work through numerical analysis, data structures, and algorithm design, applied statistics using Bayesian methods, operations research courses in linear programming. Take a two semester sequence at the junior / senior / graduate level in modeling and simulation. Somewhere along the line, learn how analysis of non-stationary financial time series requires different tools and a different frame of mind than analysis of stationary data sets (like credit card data). "





Beyond that, and for discretionary trading, I second what TH wrote above "Or just teach yourself to trade and walk in as a backed trader. Not much in what you have listed will help in that."