Suggest Career Option

  1. I wanna do Trading.
  2. I don't know Coding.
  3. I wanna work in a really competitive, dealing-with-big-people & Money-making environment.
  4. I wanna travel a lot.

Please suggest a good way for my career and the best career option. Also if I have to change some of the points to become a lot bigger, do suggest.

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You don’t need to know how to code to do S&T at a normal bank. The environment is very fast-paced and competitive, and you will be making big $$ especially if you move to HF later on after starting in banking.

Travelling isn’t that compatible with the rest of your requirements. However as a trader you will not be working on weekends / bank holidays, so for what it’s worth you can use that time to travel, which is not a possibility in IB / PE.

 
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Scratch the trading part and do IB at Moelis. You'll have so much free time, you won't know what to do with your time after you've circled the globe thrice.

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