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Please report any inappropriate Threads and/or Comments in this thread. Our moderators will check back periodically to make sure all appropriate threads are deleted. <strong>Users that violate the Message Board Rules or Netiquette will be banned.</strong> If you prefer to remain...
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by nychimp
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by HF
5/16 update - what are some ideas you guys have? Only requirements are that it has to be something finance or business related (ie not "who will you vote for president?"), and would be relevant/interesting to a large % of our visitors...
Give me ideas for the next poll topic
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by AndyLouis
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by Cola Coca
Fellow Primates, As you know or have likely seen, we've made some big changes recently and we're really excited about the growth of the community and where we're headed. I'd like you all to use this thread to share three things to help us keep improving and pushing...
WSO Updates and Suggestion Time
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by SECfinance
<strong>Financial modeling</strong> is a skill that any investment banking analyst will have to master. Although the majority of investment banks and other financial firms now have formal training programs, many students and prospective finance professionals are choosing enroll in...
Financial & Valuation Modeling Boot-Camp
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by Wall Street Prep
What happened to the new marker on posts you haven't read yet? They were nice, but they are...
"new" marker on posts
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by dabanobo
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by dabanobo
Hey Patrick , Was just wondering could you give us a little information on how you started this site. Im curious. Wernt you working in banking ? How were you able to run the site and work ? How did you get all the programming done ? Would be interesting to hear how you got it to pick up so much...
Question for Patrick
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Anyone else hate the pop-up ads on this?...
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Investment Banking Energy/Project Finance Intern - New York, NY http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/jobs/summer-intern-project-finance-energy-investment-banking Distressed Govt. Debt Intern - New York,...
Job Board Recap - 05/12/12
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by Commuter
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by asiamoney
Has there not been a CFA forum on here? Especially with the test creeping up for so many people there should be. I read somewhere that the battery life for one of these Texas Instruments BA II Plus (I have the Professional but not sure it matters) calculators is 1500 hours. Considering what a...
CFA Questions
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by slick_J
5 days 11 hours ago
by SC911
Two things: 1) Is there a way to turn off PMs when you're quoted in a thread? 2) When filling out comp data, it won't accept foreign locations because it forces a...
Int'l comp, Quote PMs
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by drexelalum11
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by FinancialNoviceII
So the current rankings are: 0 - 15 Chimp 16 - 29 Senior Chimp 30 - 65 Monkey 66 - 99 Senior Monkey 100 - 174 Baboon 175 - 249 Senior Baboon 250 - 374 Orangutan 375 - 499 Senior Orangutan 500 - 749 Gorilla 750 - 999 Senior Gorilla 1,000 - 1,999 King Kong 2,000 -...
The rankings based off of # of bananas (chimp, monkey, etc.)
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Interested in being a WSO Mod? let me know. PM or email me at Andy@wallstreetoasis.com We don't expect you to put in much more addt'l time then you already spend on wso, just that you help keep an eye out for things while you are on the site and either take action yourself, or email...
Be a WSO Moderator
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by AndyLouis
1 week 1 day ago
by swagon
I'm compiling a list of all the good q&a's that have been done on the site (to add to our faq page), here is the list I have so far, <strong>please comment if you know of one that I missed,...
Q&A Threads
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by leveRAGE.
Hey guys, Whenever I try to view the venue thread for the WSO Conference, I am brought to a page asking me to log in. Obviously I am already logged in, so I try again, and when I hit "log in" after entering my name and password, it brings me to the same screen again. I am sure I am...
WSO Conference Login Required for Access
51 week 4 days ago
by Waymon3x6
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by D M
Can we figure out a way to limit the info loaded into the company database to finance related shit? Someone just uploaded the comp info for the army. In addition to this info being available through google, loading stuff like this into the database will fuck up search results, inflate the number of...
Company Database
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by happypantsmcgee
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Fellow Primates, I just wanted to give you a heads up on a few changes we just pushed to the live server and give you the heads up on some ones coming in the next few weeks. Would love to hear your feedback. Love it, hate it, let me hear...
WSO Updates & Coming Soon
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Patrick, Why dont you change the website into something more similar to beatthegmat (the Myschools section format). there are many opensource softwares to build such a website. I think it would be like a WSOasis meets Facebook. It would be easier to interact with other people, nicer profiles,...
Social Website
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To help clean up Forum Topics and Blog posts, we have now created a new WSO Highest Ranked content (blogs & forum posts) which you can get to by clicking "Rank" in the Forum Topics block...or here: http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/highest-ranked-discussions You may notice that we no...
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<strong><a href="http://wsoconference.eventbrite.com/">WSO Conference 2012</a></strong> Not that you need another reason to attend the 2012 WSO Conference, but we just wanted to make an announcement that all attendees will be getting some cool WSO swag like the...
Who Else Wants Free WSO Swag?
182 weeks 1 day ago
by WallStreetOasis.com
2 weeks 1 day ago
by General Disarray
We are please to announce the venue for the inaugural <strong><a href="http://wsoconference.eventbrite.com/">WSO Conference 2012</a></strong>: <strong>Low Memorial Library at Columbia University</strong> (pictured here). We are very excited...
WSO Conference - Venue Booked: Columbia University!
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I just went to look at my Private Messages and it looks like all of the messages I've received or sent since the inception of my account have been deleted. Would be great if you could recover them -- I had a few that I hadn't responded to yet and a wealth of reference Q&A saved up in...
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by CompBanker
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Fellow Primates, We are looking for 1-2 students on each campus to help WSO in its sales efforts to student clubs/career centers, and overall promotion at your school both online and on the ground. Below is a description of the position and benefits...thanks in advance for your help! <a...
WSO Campus Representative Program
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by AndyLouis
Is there a way that I can view the exact posts / thread that I have received monkey shit for? It would be useful to see where I have received MS instead of having to go through each post individually (why...
Monkey Shit tracker?
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by Relinquis
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by jgx101
There should be an option under account settings to turn off parsing of html code for videos and images etc. Would make it a lot easier for people to surf this website at...
Option to turn off images
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by NewGuy
3 weeks 6 days ago
by Macro Arbitrage
He is racist against ASCII see his sig and the girl in his avatar is unappropriate for the high school studnets like me...
Can we ban binary banker
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