Why this blog?

Going directly to the point: I'm a graduate student in Science (Physics), and I am seriously considering the option of leaving Science, sooner or later, to become "a Quant". For obvious reasons, I am not identifying myself here, since I still like very much doing Science, and it might well be that I continue on it and forget completely about this stuff of quantitative finance.

Anyway, the point of this blog is that I can keep to myself a full record of my activities towards finance, as well as notes, tips, references, articles, etc, etc. Moreover, hopefully there will be some few readers that can help me on my way with suggestions and comments.

The idea is keeping an almost daily record of the things I could read and learn during my "free time" (although a grad student is supposed to have none), and maybe, from time to time, being able to see what I have achieved and what are the next steps, having the past activities in perspective.

Well, that is it for the moment. Let's see where the random walk takes us in the medium and large periods of time.