+22 Applying for S&T SA 2025 roles next year as a masters' student at target (non-finance) graduating 2026 7 2mo
+22 Commodity Trader? Career Path? 5 4mo
+22 Calling all S&T/Markets Associates & VP's 7 4mo
+22 When To Make The Leap (Ags) 9 2mo
+22 Difficulty breaking into energy trading 23 2mo
+22 Breaking into Quant Trading Late 4 2mo
+22 IB to Quant 14 5d
+22 Best macro desks 7 2d
+21 MS Finance/Masters of Financial Engineering to break into Sales & Trading. 9 11mo
+21 MS S&T equities vs. BofA securitized products 11 11mo
+21 Mindset of AN1 - how different from Intern? 3 11mo
+21 Great resource on the inner workings of a hedge fund trading nat gas futures. A cautionary tale. 5 9mo
+21 Many people move back office to front office 5 9mo
+21 Moving from scheduling to commercial role - advice on how to hit the ground running? 1 8mo
+21 sellside trader etiquette/convention on working multiple orders 4 7mo
+21 Energy Trading -> Quantitative Trading Career Path 11 7mo
+21 IB isn’t for me, and I think S&T is for me 5 6mo
+21 Should I embrace being a jack of all trades? Or purely focus on commercial? 1 6mo
+21 Mid Office to Sales and Trading 6 6mo
+21 Junior role on trading desk 6 2mo
+21 Headhunter etiquette in commodities 5 3mo
+21 Should make a move in the early stage?(TLDR) 2 1mo
+21 Skillset for a London quant trader 17 1mo
+20 Commodities - Struggling to get into a real commercial role. Do I need to be doing more, or is my shop not really set up for this? 2 10mo
+20 Barclays VP vs JP Morgan Associate 8 8mo
+20 I used to have a plan, and then paycheck hits. golden handcuff in trading 7 7mo
+20 Natural Gas Trading - What are the risks? 7 7mo
+20 Feel hopeless breaking into commodity trading 8 6mo
+20 Is Trillium Trading a joke? 7 5mo
+20 JPM PB Solutions SA or Citi S&T SA 6 4mo
+20 Macquarie Houston Commodities S&T 17 1mo
+20 Insight into Macquarie Commodities? 20 4w
+20 Delta One Trading 10 56m
+19 How to best lateral into trading? 4 10mo
+19 Would it rub my manager the wrong way to hint that I want to move to front office 10 11mo
+19 Quant Derivatives Trading 9 10mo
+19 FT Offer Decision: Small PE Firm or S&T at BB 6 8mo
+19 Trading at GS/MS/JPM or Sales & Trading at Jane Street/Citadel/Two Sigma 8 8mo
+19 Fixed Income & EFX Client Services 7 8mo
+19 Unsure of long-term career plans, Sales And Trading a good fit? 4 6mo
+19 Derivative trading on dark pools? 4 5mo
+19 Commodities Trading Target Unis (specifically Canadian) 11 5mo
+19 Masters for S&T Macro HF Exit? 6 1mo
+19 Sales guys - what would you make of this? 5 4mo
+19 Physical Metals Analyst Interview 9 3mo
+19 There is no clarity about the job title "Quant Trader" and because of that I don't know how to prepare for this career if I had one year. 5 4mo
+19 bump 5 4mo
+19 CFA for S&T Derivatives Trading? 6 2mo
+19 indiviudal trading vs. institutional 6 2w
+19 BB S&T New Graduate Analyst - Advice to progress as rapidly as possible 11 2w
+19 Barclays vs. RBC Capital Markets Quant Trading? 5 2w
+18 Institutional Equity Sales vs Tech Sales 2 9mo
+18 2024 Bank of America Quantitative Analyst (Global Risk) legitimacy, exit ops, pay, etc. 7 9mo
+18 Early lateral to s&t 2 9mo
+18 Real-Time Power/Energy Trader at a Utility Company 4 9mo
+18 Networking in Commodities Trading - Advice 5 9mo
+18 Exits from Market Risk at VP level? 5 3mo
+18 GS S&T SA 2024 London 19 6mo
+18 How to position myself for an S&T role from a non-target 16 5mo
+18 QT/QR/S&T - what statistics topics to self study in preparation for internship applications? 5 5mo
+18 Choosing trading desk: Macro credit vs USD Swaps 10 4mo
+18 Interview with shorter term trading fund - what to expect? 1 4mo
+18 Bank rates traders making $2m+? 9 3mo
+18 In existential crisis and need advice 7 2mo
+18 Success as a shipbroker/charterer 15 2w
+18 Equity derivatives trading 12 1w
+18 How to become a Real Time Power Trader? 5 1mo
+18 Base salaries for BB S&T? 10 1w
+18 IB to S&T (Sales Desk)? 8 1mo
+18 Power Trading - How Does Pricing Work In RT / DA? 10 4w
+18 Silly trade shop politics/structure. Is this the norm? 2 1mo
+18 A question on CLNs - Found none on here ! 3 4w
+17 Advice on how to construct trade idea 3 11mo
+17 Dealing with tough atmosphere as an intern 5 11mo
+17 Physical Commodity Trading career: If you started over again. 4 5mo
+17 Graduate vs SA 5 10mo
+17 BSc Finance for S&T 10 10mo
+17 Working for 1 Year vs Master's 3 8mo
+17 FTR Power Trading 10 5mo
+17 Wells Fargo S&T Conversion Rate 5 7mo
+17 How to become a (institutional) trader after age 30? 4 7mo
+17 Offering to work for free (For an Off-cycle S&T internship) 6 7mo
+17 HS junior thinking of applying to Lehigh 4 7mo
+17 Mathematics for Sales and Trading 24 4mo
+17 BB S&T vs AM for SA 5 4mo
+17 ?Move for a Quant Trading role or apply again? 4 3mo
+17 Breaking into London S&T 5 1mo
+17 What makes a good trader on the sell side? 12 1mo
+17 Leaving Trading to Tech - burnt out and not cultural fit 2 4w
+17 S&T at a Bank -> Prop trading? 9 3w
+17 Looks like no 2025 offer for S&T, coming to the end of sophomore year. 17 3w
+17 Understanding the Yield Curve 7 3d
+16 Is supply chain management beneficial? Specifically in physical trading? 3 12mo
+16 Felony Record about to be expunged advice on how to get into IB or S&T? 6 10mo
+16 Best Trading desk for HF Exit? 20 6mo
+16 What are technical Skills I can foster as a Sales? 4 9mo
+16 ELI5 - What do (prop) traders do 2 9mo
+16 [London] Sales and Trading (S&T) SA 2024 7 3w
+16 Incoterms - Glencore/Trafigura Interview Prep 5 9mo
+16 Drinking in Sales 2 7mo

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