Need Advice - Trading Internship
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I mean it seems like you have your story written. You had the internship at the bank, they had you sit on a trading floor, and you realized it's something you enjoyed a lot more, starting reading ft/wsj, and found out you really enjoyed it a lot. That's all they want to hear for a story, so you've for it written already. I think your gpa is okay given your major. Just make sure you network-many banks are cutting jobs, so even though you're at a great school you will need every angle covered.
dont worry about your gpa
stanford cs has an excellent reputation, so that won't work against you too much
if you're interested in macro, creditwritedowns.com and pragcap.com are pretty good
wsj is ok but don't take everything they say too seriously
Ask the traders you sit with and macro sales people what they read - probably better sources plus you get more face time..
I've come to realize that WSJ is pretty worthless... Too slow and doesn't cover enough news... Depending on teh firm, you may have some internal proprietary network where the sales people/traders write pieces. That might be better to read...
I graduated from Stanford this June, also with a mediocre/bad gpa and did just fine securing a trading job and started on rates desk about a month ago. My background is a bit different from yours, but feel free to pm me if you want my take on spinning your story, trading recruitment at Stanford, etc.
In my opinion after taking alot of the math classes that you've been through, Economic/ stats and finance related classes and the math involved will be a breeze. No comparison that basic finance math for jobs is quite easy such as DCF, standard deviations, compounding interest and bond valuations
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