Equities Trading with no CS/Stats/Math Background

Hello - coming on here and looking for advice. I'm a student who got placed on an equities trading desk for my upcoming internship and I have no CS/Math/Stats background whatsoever. I am keen on preparing hard for the internships (don't know which desk), but imagine I'll need data analysis skills and the ability to code well. Can anyone provide advice on what I need to start doing/looking at so that I can have the requisite skills?

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Any recommendations for crash course? I’m in a very very math-heavy field of STEM, and have decent python experience, but I’m not sure what I’d actually be asked to do on the job.

For my S&T internship next summer, I’m hoping to land at an equities/equity derivatives desk.

Any advice / recommendations would be appreciated!

 

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