ER to Trading?

Anyone ever make this jump? Haven’t seen this, but wanted to see any exits into trading. Is trading a dead career path?

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Interested in replies to this. Also, trading is far from dead its just very selective.

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Haven’t really seen ER to Trading before. However, within most S&T divisions there is a strategy role which seems to be the likely position for someone with an ER background.

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