0 To old school traders: Dealing with a change in trading structure. 3 11y
0 Cargill summer merchant intern or BAML summer sales and trading analyst? 6 11y
+14 Risks for a Counterparty Risk Trader 4 11y
0 Rates Sales Analyst Interview - What type of questions can i expect? 14 4y
+3 Interview with a quant? 3 6y
0 Andrie Capital Trading? 1 6y
+3 Credit Suisse Fixed Income Asset Finance Summer Analyst 1 8y
0 Can someone explain gas daily options vs. American options? 3 11y
0 Could someone enlighten the world of equity derivatives for me.. 27 8y
+11 Trading Mortgage Backed Securities 18 11y
+11 HK and SG S&T 2015 112 11y
+20 Trader Bonus Across the Street 5 11y
+37 JUST RELEASED: New WSO Prop Trading Interview Guide 7 11y
0 Has anyone taken the Series 99? 1 11y
0 Incoming Equity Sales Analyst - Advice? 15 11y
0 Graduating at 25 from undergrad...how much of a handicap for trading recruitment? 5 11y
0 Is doing research on companies the bulk of the work for analysts, whether in prop trading, asset management or equity research? 2 11y
0 Great blog about the prop trading experience 0 11y
+38 Beast Mode's Options Trading Journal 45 11y
+19 Who else is studying for Series 7? 19 8y
0 3Red Trading 2 11y
+9 Corporate Derivatives? 4 11y
0 Trading & Structuring FT Graduate Interview at Credit Suisse 7 11y
+10 Braverman busted for Insider Trading 2 6y
+14 Can someone tell me about CDO trading please? 3 11y
0 Please tear my cover letter to pieces 0 11y
0 Money Desk 0 11y
0 Software Engineering at a Chicago Prop Trading Firm - Any Advice Would Be Appreciated 2 6y
0 How difficult is it to move to S&T from IBD? 11 11y
0 Citi Super Day 2015 6 9y
0 Story of NYC Trader - Bank Compliance guy 7 6y
0 EIA & IEA Jobs 2 11y
0 NY Federal Reserve cross-markets monitoring program 0 6y
0 Does SIG ask its incoming FT Traders for Transcripts? 3 11y
0 Need guidance for my MSc thesis on Commodities 2 6y
+55 Jumping Ship 6 Months into the Job 49 3y
0 Forecasting currency changes using Econometrics 2 11y
0 KGS Alpha Capital Markets? 0 11y
0 I want to trade - what area is this? 2 9y
0 Ag Commodities 2 11y
0 Move to the desk or stay in IT 11 6y
0 Final Round with Louis Dreyfus?????? 12 11y
+27 John Arnold - 2014 Interview 3 6y
+22 How exactly traders “provide liquidity” in the markets 9 11y
0 Energy Rodeo 2015- Glencore confirmed 7 11y
0 CME Membership Length 1 11y
+15 Structured Credit Insights? 7 5y
0 Anyone heard of Feis Trading? 0 11y
0 Anyone hear back from the DRW Super Saturday? 8 11y
+9 App for Trading Test Prep 0 11y
+9 Recruitment for Top Tier Market Making Firms 7 11y
0 Stock Alert Services?? Anyone ever use before? 0 11y
0 Direct Energy Trading Operations Graduate Program 4 11y
0 BB FX Sales Interview Questions 0 9y
0 Fixed Income Research to Trading 2 10y
+8 Optiver Salaries 4 11y
+34 Firm Compensation 34 11y
0 Decent portfolio mgmt tools for retail investors? 0 11y
+11 Trending Stock Discussion: GOPRO 8 11y
0 How will the US rates hike affect investment banks? 13 11y
0 FICC Revenues Up 2 11y
0 Resources for learning about FX 2 11y
+13 FX Spot Trading 9 11y
0 Big 4 FSO Assurance vs. Small Broker/Dealer Agency Trading. Which will get me where I want to go? 1 6y
0 Stock Dilution of new shareholder, public offering 0 11y
0 Looking to speak with people in distressed/high yield or bankruptcy/restructuring lawyers 1 11y
0 Trading - Covered Bond, ABS & CASH bond 0 11y
+24 Interview questions for Securities Lending? 19 9y
+17 HOW SMART ARE YOU > logical reasoning > enter the bulge! 5 11y
+6 Little-known Trading Firm 2 6y
+22 Please explain HFT market making/arbitrage 6 6y
0 Is it worth mentioning trading with papermoney at interviews? 12 11y
0 Has anyone heard anything about RJ O'Brien in Chicago? 6 6y
0 Execution vs Screen Trading 1 11y
0 Fixed Income BB 0 11y
0 Citi S&T FT Interview Results 1 11y
0 ------ dito 10 11y
+17 BB derivatives trading analyst - buyside opps? 9 7y
+29 What are S&T hours really like and do they vary by bank/desk? 18 11y
+27 Trading still a good career? 9 11y
+21 Trading game strategy 6 6y
+16 Trading cards and trading securities 10 11y
0 Help out a poor little freshman 1 11y
0 Gave up IB in NYC at a BB and now moving to LA Cause of Family Crisis and Want to do S&T; am I screwed? 7 6y
0 trading related 5 11y
0 Bloomberg article on bond trading today 6 11y
0 Internship from target school 4 11y
0 Interesting Risk Management Piece 0 11y
0 Starting career at non-top Prop Trading firm (need serious advice) 5 11y
0 MKM Partners? 1 6y
+7 Introduction + SIG Interview Questions 2 11y
0 Business School Student studying finance 0 11y
0 Applying to Trillium & FNYS 2 11y
+23 Google and Trafigura hiring non-graduates 4 11y
+12 Oil or commodity Research 3 11y
+46 Culture Difference between American and European banks? 52 6y
0 prwefwefjw 6 11y
0 gfty rwaef 2 11y
+75 Let's Talk S&T Desks 54 2mo
+22 Rail Scheduling - PLEASE HELP 15 6y

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