Investing Returns on the S&P500
Cool, this is very similar to what I had people do at one point as part of the interview process.<p>Give them a bunch of historical data<p>- find me the longest period that we would be flat&#x2F;negative<p>- find the best time to invest<p>- find the optimal portfolio off stocks to hold over a given period.<p>I think I&#x27;ve said this before but I see too many people who think that they need to have a huge public repository of code to show off in an interview.<p>If you want to be a programmer at a hedge fund just having some very shallow analysis like the above would get a programmer to the top of the resume pile.<p>Now if you want to be a quant the bar is obviously much higher:)