How does one become a gaming analyst?

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supercat said:
2 big ways:

1. Finance degree & MBA & CFA - then join a sell side research shop or investment banking firm as an analyst

2. Marketing degree ( or mabey finance as well but this isn't as common) - then MBA, then join market research firm such as EEDAR or whatever.

Market research salaries won't be as high as sell side research but you will have the benefit of being more objective rather than somebody who has to constantly overhype gaming companies so that their traders can move the stocks------- MS's Natal is going to be daaa shiznit, so buy now!!! buy buy buy

In either case you have to be mothodical, analytical, intellectually curious, etc. The degree of education will be immense so this isn't the kind of job that any troll on this board could hope to accomplish.

I understand that numbers 1 and 2 are the pieces of paper that are needed, but it seems that more importantly one needs a degree in BS.

MS's Natal is going to be the shiznit is simlar to certain things that I have heard certain analysts say, so I don't know if I agree.

I am methodical, analytical, and curious, but I suppose that I don't have enough education.  I do think that I could make incorrect prediction after incorrect prediction though and that's all that really seems to matter, now doesn't it?