MS finance or MBA finance

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MS finance or MBA finance

by rohitaggarwal14 » Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:39 am
My profile is as follows:

Education:

BTech in CSE from IPU (2009)
CFA level 1 (CFA Institute, USA) dec,2010.
CFA level 2 band 10 (not cleared) june, 2011.
CFA level 2 candidate June, 2012.
NSE certified market professional level 1.
NCFM certifications:
i. CDSL
ii. Portfolio management (97.5%)
iii. Option Trading Strategies (92.5 %)

Other achievments:
Rank 277 National Science olympiad (Science Olympiad Foundation), 2000
rank 69 in SMO (Indian Mathematical Olympiads Foundation), 2002

No notable extra curricular

Work Ex.

Standard Chartered Bank (Customer Service Executive) 5 months
TCS (Analyst) 2 yrs 3 months by march 2012.
Worked with following clients in TCS as Analyst:
Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs
Citibank, Singapore

Current Location : Singapore (been here for 3 months and looking forward to completing at least 1 yr in Singapore)

Domain : Wealth Management & Investments(Structured Products), Citi trading platform

Profile dampeners:
1. Grad from not a notable University.
2. Average grades : grad (65%), 12th (76%), 10th (83%)
3. 1 Year gap between 12th and graduation.


Areas of interest:
Strategy based trading in derivatives. Have been trading for around 4 yrs now with occasional breaks. Currently I trade solely in index options in NSE and have posted some really good results consistently over a few months.

Kindly advise whether I would be able to break into some good college like Wharton, Harvard, Chicago Booth, Stern or a bit lower ranked college that can place me behind trading desk with some really good company, prefereably a hedge fund like Paulson's or JP Morgan.

I have not yet explored the option of MS Finance. Kindly advise if that could be a good option.