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### Advice on where to ask questions about lower-level finance questions?

I'm currently studying for the SOA's Investment and Financial Markets exam, which covers Corporate Finance and Derivatives. These topics seem to be a little too low-level to qualify for this site, and ...
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### Would a question about delivery of an underlying at maturity be on topic?

I have been doing some surface-scratching reading about energy market derivatives. In particular, electricity market derivatives. Nowadays, when one trades futures on an index such as the S&P 500, ...
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### Anything we can do to bring dormant high-rep users back?

Having browsed through the "top 50" user profiles, I noted that quite a few of them haven't visited the website in a while, some even in years. Whilst it's understandable that many people ...
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### Odd and Unintended Formatting

I just recently answered the following question: MM strategy to interactive with IB API. See my answer here. However in my answer, spaces were deleted, lines spaced oddly and italics added to ...
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### Is the required 5 votes to close a hard limit and should it be changed?

I occasionally moderate QF. I do not admit to being consistent. Sometimes I give people the benefit of the doubt and leave their question open, other-times I internally chastise them and vote close ...
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### Where do career advice questions fit in, in the quant SE?

Specifically, I need opinion/reviews on a quant role I am applying for at a BB firm. The question got put on hold in the main forum, so it looks like its not a valid question over there. Where do I ...
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### Does SE have a platform where asking for advice regarding prost grad applications would be on topic?

I am currently looking at MSc courses in financial mathematics, etc and had some questions about applying. I am assuming that the Quant SE is not the right place to ask these sorts of questions. Does ...
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### Community Promotion Ads - 2018 [duplicate]

It's almost February in 2018, which isn't supposed to be the proper time to cycle these, but for this year it'll be once again, so we'll be refreshing the Community Promotion Ads for this year now! ...
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### Cross post from other places

I posted my question at two other places (cross validated and economics). I haven't got an answer at either place - cross validated for over 2 weeks and economics for 1 week. Can I cross post the ...
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### Some kind of Mark Joshi memorium?

Can this community find something appropriate to do in memorium of the passing of one of its strongest contributors? Mark Joshi died of a heart attack last month. See https://www.wilmott.com/...
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### Question deleted

The question "Ratio between Expected Shortfall and Value at Risk for t-distribution" by user @michaelaba was deleted shortly after I wrote what I thought was a pretty nice answer. How come? Was it a ...
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### Deactivating "Seeking assistance in developing a trading strategy” as close reason

The close reason "Seeking assistance in developing a trading strategy" causes confusion and doesn't seem to have too many fans. Oftentimes questions closed with this reason could have been closed for ...
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### Are question related to regulation on topic?

Quants/modellers working in risk management often face questions how to interpret certain bits of supervisory regulation. Wording in official regulation texts can be vague, leaving many degrees of ...

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