+29 Students Investment Club 46 12y
0 Sales and trading, Help! 0 6y
0 Best BB Interest Rate Vol Desk? 16 3y
0 Is John Lefevre (GSElevator) retired, semi-retired? 5 12y
0 WSO Stock Price Contest #12: S&P 500 40 12y
0 Fund derivatives trading interview 2 12y
0 I have an interesting background...does anyone have advice for a wannabe trader? 5 6y
+79 Is Nassim Nicholas Taleb Full of Shit? (EMH content) 74 9y
0 Phone interview global markets 0 12y
0 IR vs Credit vs FX vs High Yield 4 6y
0 AECO > Henry Hub 4 12y
0 Ag Trading - Sydney, London & Chicago 2 6y
+8 Jefferies S&T Equities SA 23 12y
0 Good desks to rotate on 0 12y
0 Math I should learn for derivatives pricing and financial engineering in general 7 12y
+31 The Truth - S&T is dead 25 12y
+10 Citi S&T vs. Morgan Stanley Institutional Equity S&T 3 12y
0 Sales and Trading Compensation ladder 2 12y
+10 WSO Stock Price Contest #11: F (Ford!) 51 12y
0 US commercial banks' changing asset mix 1 12y
+17 The shrinking MBS market 4 12y
0 MS FI SA vs Barclays S&T SA vs DB S&T SA 10 12y
0 MS FID vs GS QIS SA 9 7y
0 Trading Q 2 12y
0 What To Do If All Options End Up Failing 7 12y
0 GS SA Trading Position 2 12y
0 Citadel FTAP Intern Superday 3 12y
0 Flow Traders Numerical Test 9 5y
0 Day Trading And T3 Settlement 3 12y
+22 Business is complex 4 12y
0 Blackrock Fixed Income Trading Intern 1 12y
0 Funniest Stock Pitch Ever? 12 11y
0 Auto loan competition heating up 0 12y
0 Respol 0 6y
+10 WSO Stock Price Contest #10: DIS (Disney!) 29 12y
+47 Hesitating between Commodities and Stock Markets 31 6y
0 Can I ask HR if interview will be mostly behavioral or technical and with who? 6 12y
0 Financial Times vs. Economist for S&T SA 9 12y
0 Which desk to visit? 8 12y
+29 Summer internship decision: HF vs. BB S&T 8 12y
0 Trading investors money on his broker's account 8 12y
0 Quantitative Firms/Funds that have Internships? 0 12y
0 The Perfect Morning Meeting 4 12y
0 Comparative-Advantage / SWAP 4 12y
0 How do you write a stock investment idea in memo format? 1 12y
0 CME Group Trading Challenge 2014 5 12y
0 MS SA S&T IED Super Day 5 12y
+15 The Philipp Brothers Collection 2 12y
0 Is it possible to switch from a Technology Associate role to Quantitative Research Associate? 6 12y
0 MS SSG 1 12y
+16 Back office to middle office? 16 2y
0 Still keep GPA up? 6 12y
0 What kind of trader am I? 8 12y
+9 WSO Stock Price Contest #10: WYNN 29 12y
0 Turks going wayward!! Traders to Short Lira? 2 6y
+16 Traders with experience in Arbitrage 11 12y
0 One Thing I Can't Understand About Traders That Work For Others 5 12y
+74 $3.6mm Bonus wasn't enough at 30 years old 62 12y
0 KCG/GETCO Asia 2 6y
0 Is trading the way to start? 2 12y
+12 Any option traders working at hedge funds or prop shops?? 6 12y
+10 Trading hierarchy 5 12y
+16 What to expect as a commodity trading intern. 10 12y
+68 Why is it so hard to survive as a prop trader? 19 6y
0 Legit, retail track record, then what 3 12y
0 strategy difference between chop shops and proprietary trading firms? 4 12y
+3 Need answer to this interview question 7 12y
+11 Insider Trading S&T vs IBD at BB 4 12y
0 BTIG 4 6y
+30 Barclays vs. Citi vs. CS S&T SA Offer 23 12y
0 Institutional Sales Comp 2 12y
0 Internship w/ RE PE to S&T? 3 12y
+32 Interview Experience w/ JP Morgan Freshman/Sophomore 54 9y
0 Margin Interview Question 1 12y
0 Philadelphia Trader's Happy Hour this Wed (1/29) ...prop trading office 0 12y
+14 Can anyone settle ONCE AND FOR ALL what TRADERS in INVESTMENT BANKS do? 16 12y
+28 Physical Traders & Buying Assets 12 12y
0 Goizueta Business School - seeking advice 0 6y
0 BP - Salary & Bonus - Oil and Gas Data 12y
+7 Citi S&T vs. GS IM - Sophomore 5 11y
0 Thoughts on Rates Sales? 3 12y
0 Citi vs. Deutsche Bank S&T SA 21 9y
+27 Willing to help with S&T Superday Interviews 7 6y
0 Laptop Recommendations for MFE 4 12y
0 UBS Exploding Offer Regret 6 12y
0 S&T: Tried and true desk or 'start up' desk? 3 12y
0 Imperial Capital Research 1 12y
+16 Optiver vs DRW NYC for Summer Internship? 19 6y
+5 Power or Soft Commodities? 6 12y
0 HELP! First Round JPM Freshman/Sophomore S&T Interview Advice 13 9y
0 TransMarket Group - Salary & Bonus - Rates Data 12y
+7 BB S&T Compensation 2 12y
0 IMC Financial Markets - Salary & Bonus - Derivatives Data 12y
+24 Physical trading documentary [IN FRENCH] 10 6y
+4 Can you make $10m+ trading at a BB? 15 12y
0 How do I choose between CS and GS S&T offers? 8 12y
+10 DB S&T or Citi S&T or BAML S&T 13 12y
0 Morgan Stanley IED Super Day (Sophomores) 0 12y
0 Anyone ever heard of Signal Technologies ("SigTec")? 3 12y
+5 Non-Target with S&T Offers but questions 2 12y

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