# Should we create a “professional primers series” of questions?

A recent question asked for a tutorial on bank loans, a reasonably sophisticated and niche topic for quants for which it's not so easy to find a good introduction. In fact, I worked on a quantitative bank loan model for months before I serendipitously found some of the references I included in my answer to that question.

I often collect quant-oriented primers and introductions to various asset classes, which I typically find in the process of working on a new project in some asset class for the first time. Therefore I reacted positively to SQLCurious's posting of the loans question, and suggested he post more. However, these follow up questions received many negative votes, and were ultimately closed.

Hence I come to the community to ask, why not have a series of questions on serious quant intros to esoteric asset classes? If there is support for such a series, please post your suggestions for asset classes below. My starting list would be

• Credit Default Swaps
• Variance Swaps
• Convertible Bonds
• Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities
• Non-Agency Residential Mortgage Backed Securities
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The top C++ users on StackOverflow created a c++faq tag specifically for all of the common questions. It might be possible to create a faq tag for Quant.SE that would include the free data online question and the programming language question. Then this faq tag would be linked from our official FAQ page.