If it sounds like a tough world, it is: "The street is littered with traders who blew up, who hid bad trades, and who ended up being prosecuted," says Handa. Everybody's trying to pick each other off. But you have to be a survivor because everybody's out to get you. And you have to be dysfunctional in certain areas. Trading, says Handa, "is definitely entertaining." But he cautions that it's not for everyone. Then says Handa, "I started interviewing for jobs and the moment I started getting some positive feedback and got one offer they basically jumped on me and gave me an offer and I switched over to trading." While at the University of Chicago, Handa began working for ABN AMRO on a part-time basis doing some programming to design a trading system and got a foot in the door. Faced with a new opportunity, Handa decided to take it and left UCLA with a Master's degree in physics in 1996. "I got an application, applied, and then forgot about it," he says-that is, until he got accepted. Then one day while surfing the Web in search of a math paper, he came across an announcement for a program in financial mathematics at the University of Chicago. "The flip side of working on a practical problem," says Handa, "was that it was so practical that I began to feel like the challenge wasn't there anymore, so I became very bored."ĭespite his boredom Handa continued on with his plans to finish his dissertation. "At first I was writing a dissertation on esoteric stuff like mathematical physics," he says, "and then later on I switched topics because I felt like I was in my cubicle talking to myself too much." Thinking a change in research topic might spice things up a little, he switched to working on a more practical, computational problem. student in physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1996. Handa is a physicist-turned-trader for ABN AMRO Bank's Chicago office. Sound like an adrenaline rush? Well, according to Handa, working as a trader for an investment bank, it is.
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