S&T to HF

So I want to ultimately work in a hedge fund as a trader. But I dont want to go the IB route so i want to go into S&T. If someone is a successful trader at a BB would it be difficult to transition into a HF as a Excecution Trader. And also in my undergrad what skills should I be looking to build so it makes that transition easier.

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You don't have to be an execution trader.

The type of fund that hires people from S&T is a completely different strategy than the type that hires from IB.

FICC traders go work at macro HFs. They don't go work at event driven or fundamental L/S like IBers.

Go learn about different HF strategies. If you're asking this Q, you don't know enough about how funds work to be interested in them.

 

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