Breaking into Sales & Trading?
There's a ton of advice out there on WSO about breaking into investment banking, in terms of majors, target GPA, classes, internships, etc.
What advice would you guys have for undergraduate students considering prospective careers in Sales & Trading though? What sorts of majors, classes, and GPA cutoffs do recruiters look for? What sorts of internships, backgrounds and characteristics do successful applicants have?
I don't know a whole lot about S&T, so any advice is greatly appreciated.
S&T is big - do you want to be a sales guy or a trader, a quant or a cash trader/derivs trader/ algo trader, structurer, etc...? People are banging on about math and computer science. It depends what type of trader you want to be etc... I'd say math would be more useful than computer science, the programming can be learned later on the job.
I read Liar's Poker, after that I told myself I'll never do this job. Ended up doing it for 8+ years before changing career path. Read about it first - your question is like asking "I want a job, what do people like in someone to give them a job?"
Pretty fucking broad question. Sure trade on your own and have one or two stock ideas, we don't ask you to have your own portfolio and a three year track record either...