Energy Trader, Analyst, and YouTuber Jonathon Emerick 

Thanks for having me on Dimitri, I hope I can improve that audio quality on my side next time we organise to chat!

This is such an interesting video! I just graduated with a Master's degree in Quantitative Finance and Actuarial Science from Tilburg University. While awaiting responses for my research master application and job applications, I have been exploring future seminar topics, which led me to the 2024 book "Quantitative Energy Finance" by Fred Espen Benth and Almut E. D. Veraart. I'm currently immersing myself in these models, aiming to address the complexities of energy markets through risk management. I firmly believe that being effective in risk management amidst competitiveness in these markets will ultimately benefit consumers.

As a chemical engineering graduate who did industrial placement in petrochemicals but now work in capital markets technology, this interview is a goldmine. Thanks a lot!

Been following QuantPy and his tutes for a while. Great guy.

Awesome Discussion. So much learning.

Software Engineer here: I've been using various different languages over the last 10 years including Ruby, JS, Golang, and for many years Python. I feel like writing code in a language like Python is an exercise in discipline and sophistication. It allows you to do things very dynamically which is great for prototyping but you have to be a lot more disciplined with annotating types (python 3.5+) and having them statically checked using something like mypy if you want to have robust production code. I hear you on the object-oriented design principles etc. but the longer I write code the more I realise: plain old functions are great, functions are easy to understand if they don't have side-effects, and most importantly functions are easy to delete and replace. Try to write code that's easy to delete and replace, and the next guy will thank you.

Hi Dimitri, I know you don't like talking about buy side firms and hfts and stuff. The reason why a lot of people get sucked into courses, is that top firms do hire undergrads as quant traders and researchers(maybe 10% of their total hires). Its just that these undergrads are math geniuses like IMO or USAMO or Putnam ranks or they go to top math/CS programs with multiple software engineering, research and ML internships. Even then these people first get internships as quant researchers then the firms take almost a year to train them to be good at their job. I know a handful of people who became quants as undergrads, but they have very impressive backgrounds. It would be great if you can make a video on this, going through Linkedin and showing your audience that for the average person masters is their best shot.

I’ve never heard of this guy, I’ll definitely check out his channel! Also, great interview!

Amazing interviewer, you let the guest speak. Thank you

Good to see the other quant.

I’m here, appreciating the truth telling. 🤗

Great video. More of these!

Loved the interview, wanna see more videos like this!

Goats meeting each other 🤩🤩

Great convo! Learned quite a lot

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Great video Dimitri, if you have not already could you do a video on the full capabilities of R in your job? I've done a few projects for university but I don't think we are using the language to its fullest capabilities. Thanks in advance !

Why the re-upload? 🤔

14:19 / 1:29:37

What is his annual salary and networth

I like Jonathan, learned from him a lot, specifically about weather derivatives. God bless him

Very informative talk. Interestingly enough, I found QuantPy’s channel a little less than year ago, and I have been loving his videos. Also, it was only like few weeks ago when I found your channel Dimitri, and here we are now, both of yous talking about all the things I find interesting for an hour and a half. Thank you so much to the both of you for all the good content you put out. I have certainly learned a lot from you guys.

Iv been following both for 3 years now... what a conversation

Wow, my favorite two quant youtubers.

This hit home big time. Graduated 1.5 years ago and started working as a chemical engineer in a major city for an EPC/Consulting firm because I didn’t want to live in the middle of nowhere working for oil/gas 😂 even better is that I’m the so called “software engineer” and write the majority of the VBA/Python scripts the firm uses.

This was so informative and fun!

This is the first time I have ever heard someone organically refer to IB

great video Dmitri and Jonathon! Your channel has became a recent fav of mine! Keep it up 😊

Awesome interview.

Legend

Was it ArjanCodes? I couldn't quite hear.

The amount of adds makes this nearly unwatchable. Every 3-4 min for a 90 min video.

Hey Dimitri, will you be coming to the Spring Princeton Quant Conference? Would love to see you there.