Good enough for wall street?!

Hello everyone,

I'm relatively new to trading world, and I was wondering how good of a trader you have to be in order to work in wall street? I mean in terms of monthly or annual return on investment, drawdown, etc..

I have been working as a retail trader in forex market for over a year now, and I'm confident that I'm well above average in trading. (I can easily manage 10% monthly return with a drawdown below 15% )

but I was wondering how good of a trader you need to be to work in wall street?

oh I should mention, I'm 28 and I live outside US, English is my second language (sorry for grammar and spelling errors) so I'm not asking this question to see if I can find a job in wall street per say.. I just want to have an idea of how good of a trader those guys are and what are their stats like.. that's all.

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