> I view quora as a highend QA website that connects me to experts.
I've thought of Quora as having everybody except experts on it. Here are the first five questions I see on Quora's quantitative finance page:
1. Who (companies or individuals) are some well-respected recruiters in quantitative finance?
2. What metrics do you use to figure out if a commodity is undervalued or overvalued?
3. For a fresh maths/stats PhD, are there any advantages to starting a career in an investment bank instead of a hedge fund?
4. What is the purpose of Financial Engineering?
5. What is the most common topic beginners struggle with when it comes to Computational Finance?
Now here are the first five I see on StackExchange's quantitative finance page:
1. Nelson-Siegel model is not arbitrage-free
2. Autocorrelation and Markov Regime-Switching
3. What are some examples of non-financial risks and contingency plans?
4. Is it ever possible that---because of illiquidity---exercising an out-of-the-money option is better than directly buying the stock?
5. What's the best way to test/validate an interest rate lattice model
Only one of these sites has experts on it. (Full disclosure: I'm a moderator on the Quant SE site. It took a lot of work to get that board up to expert level. I don't see the same kind of effort applied from Quora.)
I think what happens with Quora is that experts answer questions in their own field, but they don't ask them. So the questions may seem elementary, while the answers are not.
I've thought of Quora as having everybody except experts on it. Here are the first five questions I see on Quora's quantitative finance page:
1. Who (companies or individuals) are some well-respected recruiters in quantitative finance?
2. What metrics do you use to figure out if a commodity is undervalued or overvalued?
3. For a fresh maths/stats PhD, are there any advantages to starting a career in an investment bank instead of a hedge fund?
4. What is the purpose of Financial Engineering?
5. What is the most common topic beginners struggle with when it comes to Computational Finance?
Now here are the first five I see on StackExchange's quantitative finance page:
1. Nelson-Siegel model is not arbitrage-free
2. Autocorrelation and Markov Regime-Switching
3. What are some examples of non-financial risks and contingency plans?
4. Is it ever possible that---because of illiquidity---exercising an out-of-the-money option is better than directly buying the stock?
5. What's the best way to test/validate an interest rate lattice model
Only one of these sites has experts on it. (Full disclosure: I'm a moderator on the Quant SE site. It took a lot of work to get that board up to expert level. I don't see the same kind of effort applied from Quora.)
http://www.quora.com/Quantitative-Finance
http://quant.stackexchange.com