Helllo

both good oppts.....  you wont go wrong in either....   pick the one you think you like most today and give it a go... good luck

Only you know your specific circumstance, but speaking from an energy trading perspective, there are multiple entry points with way less uniform requirements than PE.  So your odds of moving into trading from PE is higher than vice versa.  You can always do a TDP after a few years of unrelated work experience.  But you can’t join a PE firm with a few years of unrelated experience.  Bear that in mind if you want to explore a bit for the first few years.

Trading will be far more profitable than investing this decade

Never heard anyone say Traders much sharper, interesting one. The general requirements and academic expectation is much higher in PE. Also disagree with PE being easier than trading to do well, PE is a very tough world and moving up aint easy.

You mention you know they are different jobs but enjoy “s&d” analysis more so think if you like the team, physical makes sense.

Traders are much sharper. I've done both and no one in PE ever blew me away but traders absolutely