Can anyone give me a honest idea of how important math knowledge

Depends on your approach to trading, will you be making analytical models or will you be mainly researching news, hopefuly both.

unimportant IMO

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>>1386122
You could come at it from the math side of things. But as markets are zero sum, you are against autistic level math heads, who have access to massive amounts of hashing power, who work for big banks, who front run the market with HFT algos. You can't win.

Far easier to come at from the macro human psychology angle. Markets go in cycles, the retail investor is dumb, think contrarian.

Tip: avoid real estate and bonds. Go for gold and silver

>>1386122
Learn stats

>>1386291
I can smell how broke you are from reading your advice. You people make me sick.

OP, go learn statistics, calculus, algebra, geometry, and DE. That's all of the maths that underly the market. Also, a little bit of physics wouldn't hurt even though that's a science.

>>1386291
>markets are zero sum
Not remotely true

>front run the market
You don't even know what this means

>You can't win
Aaaand now we know you lost a lot of money

>>1386305
this - stats drive statistical arbitrage and algo trading engines.

coding is a big deal if you're wanting to write your own engines - python at t push, java most usable in the RW, C++ if you're looking at low latency/hft - no offense but if you're asking you're probably not at the hft side of things yet.

mathematics is a way of thinking

>>1386291
"Frontrunning" as the SEC defines it requires violation of a fiduciary duty to ONE OF YOUR OWN CLIENTS. HFT has nothing to do with frontrunning. Please stop spreading misinformation you've read on liberal news sites.

If you're thinking of latency arbitrage, that's not illegal, though plenty of countermeasures have been developed. Here's the latest from RennTech (most baller hedge fund ever):

>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-07/jim-simons-has-a-killer-flash-boy-app-and-you-can-t-have-it

As a normie investor, this stuff does not even remotely affect you anyways.

>hashing power
The markets aren't bitcoin. There's no hashing involved in trading (but probably in authentication systems surrounding it). There's grotesque amounts of machine learning, both supervised and unsupervised, crazy regression analysis, and nanosecond-optimized, L1 cache resident C++ and Java code. Read the "LMAX Disruptor" paper to get an easily approachable idea of the kinds of approaches actual players are using.

>https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/files/Disruptor-1.0.pdf