Please critique: Seeking proprietary trader job (ex-poker pro)
So this is one where I know you could just dump all over me and say I have no chance. The fact of it is I have been to the school of hard knocks trading, many times, and have become a fairly advanced futures trader in the E-mini.
I'm at a point where I could spend 6 months developing a track record and seek employment that way - but as with trading you never know the outcome - I hold the belief that traders should think in terms of quarters/months not days... unless you are scalping based off market feel and order flow for 1-2 ticks at a time a win rate above 50% is pretty damn golden. (Obviously getting more than 1:1 on your money). So in that regard there are going to be period of losing in any successful system, and just assuming I am going to have an awesome track record after 6 months is foolish. Mostly I would like to build a career and have some sort of resume that looks a more attractive than the one I have now.
So here's the resume - All my uncertainty lies in the trading bullet point part... I did investigate the firm I am looking at joining and besides for quantifying the systems I've developed I decided on only two more bullet points.
Not sure about the webpage either... should that go under the trading category?
I feel if I can just get an interview I'll be fine.
PDF format - http://is.gd/E1got5
Thanks
(I've registered to take CFA level 1 in June 2013, but that doesn't really count for anything I suppose as most fail or don't show up.)
1) too much white space 2) put your PnL if you've been trading on your own account for 3 years and its decent (as you claim) 3) "extremely experienced" sounds ridiculous. 10+ years is extremely experienced. 3 years is barely experienced. 4)website is a pretty good touch, perhaps elaborate on that
Thanks I appreciate the feedback 2) PnL is terrible - I've blown two accounts since the beginning (terrible risk management - always trying to "be right") and tripled one that was a long term hold in silver that was not day trading and doesn't apply. For what I am trying to accomplish in intra-day trading the track record is not there, but from where I stand now I could create it but it would take 6-months to 1 year.
I feel like since I am coming from the retail world nobody expects me to have an awesome track record, otherwise I wouldn't be in the retail world. What I am offering the company is someone who is very experienced relative to the recent finance graduate and is probably a good bet in terms of generating revenue.
1,3,4 - great will do.
Your trading experience should have more bullet points than the other two
Take out "no tournaments or unusually large wins"... you don't want to sound like a loser. Instead try some like "modest competition placements, X money finishes"... Talk yourself up, not down.
"Take out "no tournaments or unusually large wins"... you don't want to sound like a loser. Instead try some like "modest competition placements, X money finishes"... Talk yourself up, not down."
Maybe I misunderstand what you are saying. Prize pools for tournaments are HEAVILY structured towards 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. The point of putting that in there was that I didn't play tournaments at all...i.e. I didn't hit any homeruns, or luckbox my way into success. I played with an edge over and over and over.
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