Trader

Upon being considered for candidacy, a one hour phone interview is undertaken with the intention of uncovering what trading style you use in your approach to the markets and how you assess risk. Questions regarding risk metrics, profitability, trade mining, position biases will be asked (i.e. long, short).

If successful in passing the telephone round, you will be flown to the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico for a day of interviews with traders, analysts and management. The travel is arranged by an exec assistant and paid for. You'll be set up in a nice hotel with access to local amenities.

You may notice an undertone of dissatisfaction in the voices of the current staff. This is not unusual. They probably aren't happy, because they work for buffoons.

BIGGEST ADVICE: When given the chance to ask questions, ask anything and everything you can about how they enjoy life on the island and, particularly, "is this opportunity as good as it looks, or is there some kind of puffery happening here?"