+50 Is being an Air Traffic Controller underrated? 39 4y
+13 Tablet recommendations 5 5y
+41 Help a HS Senior Pick a School for Undergrad 27 5y
0 Personal Account Trading Success / Failure Stories 8 5y
+7 A big question 1 5y
0 Money Market Mutual Funds - What happened to Them? 1 5y
+56 Economics of a 7-11 or a dry clean store 47 5y
+313 Shittiest time of my life, here to vent 60 5y
+51 What business (industry) would you target to buy for $500k - $2MM? 21 5y
+18 The big risks of short sales, DO NOT SELL 19 5y
0 Is there really a short squeeze for GME? 4 5y
+52 Jake Paul as a Hedge Fund Manager 29 4y
+71 Finance Sabbatical / Career Change 36 1y
0 what you thought working in finance is vs reality 1 4y
0 Put your dumbest GME predictions here 1 5y
0 Do you make more money as a Trader or in IB? 1 3y
+14 Do you have a personal laptop? 14 3y
+106 "Target" degrees may soon be meaningless 55 5y
+19 I just ordered so much Italian 15 5y
+5 What are you buying? 2 5y
+338 Why does everyone hate Wall Street so much? 119 4y
+29 RIP Melvin Capital 22 5y
+180 AOC and Dave Portnoy from BarStool are idiots and TOTALLY WRONG! 72 5y
+67 Is WSB's impact on GME overblown? 31 4y
0 Is this comp reasonable 3 5y
+213 Gen Z - I want to hear from you! 110 4y
0 Investing Platforms 1 5y
+8 Who have rugs at home? 2 4y
+14 Robinhood isn’t depositing my cash (FUCK THEM) 7 5y
+19 GME sea shanty 6 5y
0 [Deleted] 1 3y
0 Congress Suing Citadel and RH 2 5y
+147 Understanding SPAC 39 5y
0 Anyone here take Propranolol / Beta Blockers for Anxiety? 6 5y
0 Robinhood automatically selling people's GME shares 3 5y
+29 AOC, of all people, is asking for an investigation into RH 20 5y
+1 i want to die 10 5y
+36 To anyone holding GME, keep holding brothers 🚀🚀🚀 We have wounded the giants, and now we watch them bleed👅👅👅 32 5y
+171 Robinhood shuts down buying on meme stocks 98 5y
0 Momentum: 1. Fundamentals: 0 5 5y
+13 South Florida 6 4y
+7 We have trained dogs to sniff out Covid! 3 5y
+152 WSO's r/WSB 89 5y
+150 Reddit Shuts down WSB for "hate speech" 97 5y
+16 Murray Hill vs East Village 16 5y
+227 What's next after GME? A Discussion. 153 5y
+44 They got crack weed these days 18 5y
+9 Why do people like traveling so much? 7 5y
0 How talented are you at finance/what do you do? Or what are you naturally talented at? 1 5y
+7 From WSB to WSO - What Are Your Current 10x Lotto Plays For 2021?? 1 5y
0 (Deleted) 4 4y
+52 No One Made the MLB Hall Of Fame 14 5y
0 Plan B 1 5y
+67 Would you send your kids to private school? 69 4y
+22 Epstein was actually a tax accountant 23 5y
0 Top podcasts 1 5y
+3 Apartment hunting NYC 3 5y
+11 Help a curious and stressed high schooler senior (career help?) 2 5y
0 New Grad Positions still a Thing? 1 5y
0 $15 Minimum Wage: Career change to fast food industry 1 5y
+5 California lifts stay-at-home order as more COVID variants emerge 4 5y
+19 WSO 2021 Social Media Internship (Canva, Design and Memes) 0 5y
+29 Why you need to build muscle for long term health.  18 5y
+26 India Protest - What's going on? 28 5y
+14 Career Move: Large Bank to Small Bank, Yes or No? 7 5y
0 Thoughts on Swiss boarding schools? 21 5y
+12 Best website to buy stocks 16 4y
+23 Pursue a Career in High Finance or Family Business and Chill 17 5y
+21 Future of Marijuana Industry? 9 4y
+6 Mouse Macros 1 5y
+22 Could California be Unconstitutional? 8 5y
+49 Think Andrew Yang can bring back NYC as mayor? 29 5y
+35 Apollo’s Leon Black to Step Down as CEO, Remain as Chairman 47 5y
+36 Most Cringeworthy Email Closings/Sign-Offs 30 5y
+12 Carlyle acquires Jagex 22 5y
0 Let's talk work-life balance 7 5y
+9 Any finance nomads out there? 1 5y
0 Is Charlie Scharf Ripping off the Ackman's Silver Fox Look? 1 5y
0 Delete 1 5y
+119 California lifts stay at home order one week after inauguration 88 5y
+80 Going From a Zero Pack to a Two Pack to a Six Pack 42 5y
0 What are the NYC Finance fboy essentials 9 5y
0 Earnings weeks YOLO plays 1 5y
+7 Chiefs vs. Bucs Super Bowl Thread 14 5y
+10 CFA L1 - Using Mark Meldrum and scoring too high on Mocks? 4 5y
+39 Feel empty 44 5y
0 book summary: Psychology of Money 2 5y
+11 The Bucs and Brady Are in the Super Bowl - The Packers Coach Has Some Explaining To Do 6 5y
+81 Living Alone 36 5y
0 Where to travel or vacation? 3 5y
0 6 Month Vacation? 3 5y
+13 Happy Drug? 11 5y
+51 Is this a big no-no? 20 5y
+2 How many Chinese people are there on WSO? 4 5y
+3 Living @ Home since COVID started 3 5y
+15 Biases in hybrid model post COVID 2 5y
+6 Going from IB to Entrepreneurship 5 5y
+8 Best place to buy an apartment in Miami if I want to be close to night life? 8 5y
0 Is Trump going broke? 1 5y
+59 Is Melvin Capital Done For? 44 5y

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