+12 Oil Major Intern in Geneva: what's next? 2 8mo
+110 Path to Energy Commodity Trading Seat 28 2y
+24 Thoughts on crude oils next big moves given the economic landscape? 5 3y
+49 Analyst told me to go fuck off based on nationality 12 3y
+3 "G7 leaders discuss price cap on Russian oil over Ukraine invasion" 2 3y
+30 Best Master for Forex Trading 8 3y
+15 How are you managing your personal portfolio with recession risk in near term/happening? 1 3y
+6 High Yield / Leverage Loan Trading / Sales 1 4y
+12 Return Offer Rates During a Reccession 9 4y
+5 Algo Equity Trading 1 4y
+6 Where are the broads with bulging brackets? 1 4y
+26 Spain - Worse than Greece? 22 5y
+78 Physical Energy Trading And Logistics 13 5y
0 UBS Russian equities 0 6y
+53 The Great Escape 45 6y
+24 Market Week Wrap-up 10 6y
0 Daily Global Markets Update: 24 Jan '11 0 6y
0 Daily Global Markets Update: 26 Jan '11 1 6y
0 Daily Global Markets Update: 27 Jan '11 0 6y
+10 Interview Questions - Set of Questions 4 6y
0 Breaking into commodities trading from Eastern Europe 6 6y
+30 Macro HF Interviews: Paul Tudor Jones, Louis Bacon and Bruce Kovner 2 6y
0 Robert Yildirim interview 0 6y
0 Story of NYC Trader - Bank Compliance guy 7 6y
0 US vs. UK vs. Asia - starting out in S&T 14 6y
+75 First Steps into Trading 57 6y
0 Day in the Life of An Energy Trader 5 6y
0 Anyone heard of Gennady Gertsman? 0 6y
0 Greece and the Euro 7 6y
0 The futures & options markets are no longer viable. It is my recommendation that ALL customers withdraw from all of the markets 19 6y
+13 List of Worlds Largest Petroleum Companies 18 6y
0 Prop Trader Wanted For Promising New Career Path 2 6y
+14 Best prep for SA in exotic trading 4 6y
0 Junior Oil Trader @ 33? 16 6y
+18 Trading Blog - Week 4 0 6y
+80 Ask Eddie: Should I Bail On My Trading Job? 13 6y
0 Getting a banking job is now an “arms race” - Ex Asiapac head of commodities at Citi. 0 6y
0 Global Markets Review- Biggest Movers (02 Jan 2011) 2 6y
0 Global Markets 10 year Government Bonds- BEST and WORST of 2010 2 6y
0 start a career in soft commodities trading: fertilizer vs rice trading 11 6y
+40 Is this a physical commodity shop or was I mislead by management? 20 6y
0 Fixed Income trading desk 4 6y
0 Schematic for Investing in Emerging Markets 0 6y
0 busted tech IPO's... who will bounce back? 8 6y
0 How best to present these trade/investment ideas in interviews? 2 6y
0 Need guidance for my MSc thesis on Commodities 2 6y
0 Market Commentary by: James Investment Research (9/21 - 9/25) 0 6y
+3 Trade War and Ags (PHYSICAL TRADING) 1 6y
0 Japan, Turkey, Switzerland and Australia: which one to go short and which one to go long? 2 6y
0 U.S. Small-Caps Become Global Big Dog 0 6y
0 Turks going wayward!! Traders to Short Lira? 2 6y
0 Goldman Moscow (what is going on?) 4 6y
0 The Market 2 6y
+10 'Tis the season to be German (who'd have thought!) 3 6y
+15 The Euro has a 20% chance of lasting through the decade 12 6y
0 Global Markets Biggest Movers (3 Jan-7 Jan 2010) 0 6y
0 10 Jan 2011 - Global Markets Review 0 6y
+39 Getting ready for an extreme tail event 16 6y
0 European Banks Are Talking To Us 1 6y
+8 VTB Capital 7 6y
0 How to Survive During This Economic Chaos 0 6y
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+23 Understanding And Profiting From The Stock Market Swings 7 6y
+13 Morgan Stanley- Buy or Bust? 1 6y
0 Investment implications of US intervention in Syria 1 6y
0 Russia bans all US food & EU fruit and veg imports 13 6y
0 The Eurozone: on the road to recovery with a lingering risk 0 6y
0 FX swap trades 0 6y
+30 Goldman calls of 2016 4 6y
+12 BB Front Office possibilities as an Eastern European finance major 1 6y
+12 Sales 1 6y
0 Market Review (cross-products) 0 6y
+14 Global Markets Best Performers Review (13 Dec - 17 Dec 2010) 5 6y
0 Global Markets Review- Best Performers (20 Dec -24 Dec 2010) 2 6y
0 French debt downgraded 23 6y
+15 The Litasco SA conspiratorial HR plot isn't so silly. 1 6y
+40 NEWS -- Airplane shot down? 55 6y
0 E*Trade Fined 3 6y
+58 Ask Monty09: 144 6y
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0 Explaining Daily Market Moves 1 6y
0 BB Middle office / risk roll --> junior trader at hedge fund question 2 6y
0 10k bet on Greek default 24 6y
0 Small Investors Keep Market Up As Institutions Enjoy 1 6y
+5 Vega Neutral Options Strategy 4 6y
0 19 year old 3 6y
0 Greek Elections 4 6y
+4 Double Major - Classics & Computer Science 10 6y
0 Potential Market/Economic questions for S&T recruiting 2013 2 6y
+1 Greek 10 year 3 6y
+21 The Importance of Expectations 1 6y
0 Retarded Question RE: Bond Trading 5 6y
+8 Two myths about the Ukrainian conflict 2 6y
+7 Oil short term forecast: down 0 6y
+12 Quick Question on Petrocurrencies 1 6y
+10 EM/Macro Distressed Trading 2 6y
+46 Recovering from Trading Career Failure 18 7y
+12 Switzerland or Netherlands for a career as Quant/Trader? 1 7y
+12 Can someone help me? 1 8y
+12 From Engineering to Trading (EU) 1 8y

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