DISQUS

Having a wedding in a volatile market is probably the best thing you can do. Saves you the agony of having to explain why you bought Yahoo just before Microsoft bid for it and doubled the value. Hope you a nice wedding, and a good time. :)

And you are added to my blogroll. That was quick...Can't do much for you about the markets, but keep hacking away at your school. Hear nuclear engineers are in great demand.
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/j...

Well, be nice if you can add http://www.money-rx.com/blog/ (title: Money-Rx Blog) to your blogroll. I try to keep it relevant and a good source of information, although sometimes I just let it rip. I'll do the same for you...I mean, add your blog to my blogroll.

Nice list. Hope you get there. And good luck with No.5. I gave up trying to get my wife in on the action because whenever I brought it up, the coversation would end up as a discussion on whether I should get a job...

Maybe you should read this - http://www.blogmaverick.com/2004/04/13/the-stoc...

Wall Street is desperate for people who know everything about a specific industry. You don't have to quit your field. You can leverage your knowledge and use it as a tool to exchange information and learn.

Good question. I do believe that experience trumps education, any time, any day. That said, maybe, just maybe, it might be a wiser idea to experiment with someone else's money, rather than your own? Which is why you should get a job on Wall Street before you bet your life savings. Just my 2 cents, and to each his own, so what's good for me may not be the best thing for you...

Admirable intentions, and at the risk of sounding cliched, I'd say that it's not as hard as you fear, and not as easy as you hope. Realistically speaking, best way to go about trying to become a full time trader would be to start trading seriously right now. Continue your career, and build up your investments. Conservatively speaking, if everything goes right, you should be able to quit your job in 3-5 years.

Jorge, about the financial sector - If you read the quote by Philip Fisher, you can see that price is not everything. besides, when you talk about Ben Graham or Warren Buffett, value investing has to be around somewhere. And financials is where the value is right now. Most of them are trading below value, which is also why ADIA agreed to invest $7.5 billion in Citigroup.