Reply #105: ...but I am not materialistic.

[Lucky Luciano]

I never buy anything....and nobody said the kid has to do what I do. He can do whatever (s)he wants to do with the math. I just happen to think that Brownian motion and Ito's lemma are pretty cool and interesting applications of math. I never defined materialistic goals as success. In fact I never defined it. I have a great deal to learn and I am eager to learn it. Success in this business would come when I have felt that my learning has ended or further knowledge would not be interesting for me to acquire. It is really fun to gather a lot of data, write a program to analyze it statistically, and place trades based on that data and see things go your way. It feels good. I love what I do. I enjoy it immensely. I would not even know what to do if I didn't do this.

There is just a ton of stuff I have left to learn. TONS. If I were to leave now, then I would have left a ton of knowledge on the table.

"fuggedabadit. I'm older than you, can do PDeq, probability and stochastic calculus."

Not the point - my point was to get the kid to enter college with that knowledge! :p Maybe it will only help that kid - who now has the ability to help others. I can't help the whole world by myself. I can help a few people though. It would be nice if everyone did the same.