+49 Trading books that aren't Liar's Poker 137 4y
0 Ex-OPs anyone! 3 15y
0 Info about KBC Products... 0 15y
0 Capital Contribution 0 15y
0 Any good articles on projections of the economy for next 6 months? 0 7y
+113 What makes a good trader? - Very quant based 155 7y
0 SA in Commodities, mid-office 5 15y
0 Asset management to proprietary trading? 4 15y
0 Prop Trading: Equities vs. Derivatives 22 4y
+23 What do oil traders make? A lawsuit against BP sheds some light... 2 4y
0 Oil- fundamentals or speculation? 0 15y
0 S&T Summer Analyst Work Flow 6 4y
0 Derivative Specialist Program 1 15y
0 FT S&T interview help 1 15y
0 Bloomberg API 10 11y
0 In-Vogue Firm League Tables 9 4y
0 Over a 10 year period who on the average makes more? 14 15y
+47 What is a desk strategist? Or trading strategist? 30 7y
0 S&T bonus time 8 15y
0 Equity Derivatives or Interest Rate Derivatives? 2 15y
0 Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas 0 4y
0 S&T replaced by computres 12 15y
0 Help - Doing well 2 8y
0 What trading desk would you want to be on? 13 15y
0 options trading question 7 15y
+4 Intern 7 11y
0 Variable Change/ Monty Hall Problem 3 15y
0 Help - Career paths and responsibilities? 19 8y
0 stochastics and statistics? 1 15y
0 Please Take a Minute to Give Some Advice... 2 15y
0 Callan and Gregory out at LEH 7 15y
0 Does an MBA make sense after BA; want to trade 6 1y
0 FX structuring 2 15y
0 Career options - Guidance in terms of career options 0 8y
0 A rare black swan formation 10 15y
0 GS Distressed Prop Desk 3 15y
0 Internships - Rising Junior at an Ivy 8 8y
0 Analysts starting 9 15y
0 Need Advice - Former Bear S&T Summer Analyst 7 8y
0 MBA or MFE for trading 4 15y
0 MS Systematic Trading & GS Equities Quant Trading 1 15y
0 Online Options trading 11 3y
0 Can a trader specialize in more than one product? 0 15y
0 Finding time for therapy during the summer 5 15y
0 Swap Rates/Spreads 5 4y
0 Can someone explain what "quant" finance means? 8 15y
0 What desk is least popular in S+T? 49 15y
0 Career development and planning, for traders 1 15y
0 Crude Arbitrage, QM vs CL 1 4y
0 Government Sponsored Enterprises Agency Trading 0 15y
0 Wharton in S&T 17 15y
0 people who think trading has more to do with luck than skill... 60 6y
0 FX Derivatives vs Equity Derivatives (Options) 5 15y
0 Prime Brokerage-Equity Financing Services-Client Services Representative?? 4 16y
0 trading more complicated than banking 38 15y
+7 Best Trading Desk for Hedge Funds 10 15y
0 exit opportunities from sourcing/cold calling 0 16y
0 Pay in Structured Credit Sales 0 16y
0 Little bit of maths+economics vs accounting major 2 4y
0 MS vs Lehman 0 16y
0 Cash traders & sales-traders - what's the point? 11 16y
0 Credit Sales Exit Opps 0 16y
0 Traders Train Suggestions 7 14y
0 Where can I get a taste of Trading? 1 16y
0 Prop group or flow group for 1st year 0 16y
0 Mimic SP500 with 10 stocks 14 16y
0 Morgan Stanley - Interest rate products? 0 4y
+27 Is it crucial to understand what you're trading? 28 16y
0 Best trading floors in New York?? 13 4y
0 failed degree = rejected job offer? 10 16y
0 S&T in Canada: CFA vs CSI designations 12 4y
0 Please help me rank these trading desks for this summer (detailed) 3 15y
+43 Principal vs. Prop Trading 26 11y
0 Question about the markets 1 16y
0 Question from a confused kid 19 4y
0 Why do clients ever listen to advice from S&T desks? 3 16y
0 A question about options 5 16y
0 Institutional trader makes 100mil/year, what does it mean? 21 4y
0 Trading Scene in A Good Year (Russel Crowe)--wtf is going on 9 16y
+33 Trading: Gas&Power vs Emissions vs Ags 9 4y
0 Summer Interns on the trading floor 0 16y
0 Sales - different products? 2 16y
0 Interesting article on the financials 5 16y
0 ICAP, Cantor, and GFI 12 10y
0 Where to Work in Trading this Summer? 10 4y
0 Sales - Questions 8 4y
0 Your Best Trade Ever 0 16y
0 SocGen rouge trader: How did he do it? 12 16y
0 Sales: when did you get your first real client 1 4y
0 Credit Suisse Global Lev Finance & Port Products Interview - Help! 1 16y
0 Commodities Option Pricing internship 6 16y
0 Where should I work? 4 16y
0 Goldman Sachs - Prime Brokerage Securities Lending (Word on the street?) 8 7y
+14 Advice on Boring Delta One trading job.... 15 7y
0 Investing on the trading floor 2 16y
0 Any idea if Bear Stearns Global Equities division will be around for the summer? 2 16y
0 Leverage & Liquidity Ratios 1 16y
0 How do Fixed Income S&T interviews differ from Equity S&T interviews? 0 16y
0 Distressed Debt trading vs Distressed HF 3 16y
+8 Jim Rogers tore the Fed a new one. 6 10mo

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