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0 The Long and Short of Trend Investing 0 6y
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+24 FX trading books 47 13y
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0 Fast Money Sucks 7 13y
+34 What's Going on with this Crazy Market?! 18 6y
+36 Series 7 - STC Scores Vs Actual One 45 8y
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0 Transition from PE to physical commodities 3 11y
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0 P&L on fx forward 1 13y
0 Any guides for S&T? 3 13y
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0 Any Suggestions for Proprietary Trading 1 6y
+7 What's been driving Pakistan's Equity market? 3 6y
+33 Commodity Trading Volatilities 23 6y
+7 Advanced execution services? 2 13y
0 Why does the stock go down after beating earnings estimates? 5 13y
+4 SocGen Hong Kong office 10 6y
+14 Optiver vs Wolverine 3 6y
0 SCHARR CPC - Salary & Bonus - Trading Data 13y
0 FOREX - Various traders 3 6y
0 Gelber Group - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 13y
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+82 Is S&T a dying business? 84 6y
+147 The decline of Chicago prop trading 130 6y
0 Gazprom Marketing and Trading - Salary & Bonus - Global Carbon Data 13y
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0 Platts/Bentek for starting energy career 6 6y
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+12 Does anyone know where to get a free download of Oil 101? 48 9y
+23 4 years IB -> Top 10 MBA -> Phys Oil Trading? 23 6y
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+26 Why is this illegal? 13 6y
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0 Trillium Management, LLC - Salary & Bonus - Trading Data 13y
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0 am I in the wrong industry if I have this weakness? 7 13y
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+53 What's the proper way to hedge interest rate risk on a stock position? 56 9y
+16 Inter-Dealer Brokers - General outlook 11 10y
0 Share monitoring tool 1 13y
0 trading from georgia tech 7 11y
0 do hedge funds day trade? 4 13y
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0 EM Credit 11 12y
0 Debt Servicing in Rising Yield Climate? 3 6y
0 Seeking Advice - Choosing RMBS vs Commodities, Bank vs Hedge Fund 6 13y
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+125 TSLA Breaks $100, (doubles in a month) 120 12y
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0 DRW - Salary & Bonus - Commodity Futures Data 13y
0 Breakwater Trading - Salary & Bonus - Prime Brokerage Data 13y
+8 how do you make money with fixed income in a rising interest rate env? 10 13y
0 Trading Assistant or Trade Operations 5 13y
0 How hard is it to go from one part of a BB into the trading division? 5 13y
0 SA IBD to FT S+T 1 13y
0 Is it a GOOD THING to be STRAIGHTFORWARD in trading? 1 6y
+19 Blackstone vs. PIMCO vs. Goldman Sachs 13 12y
0 Kershner Trading - Salary & Bonus - Trading Data 13y
+33 Does book value even matter? 9 3y
0 Which Industry Will Provide Above Average Returns in the Next 12 Months? 1 13y
0 HELP!! Interest Rate Derivatives Interview 0 13y
+15 Where can I get historical economic data on interest rates and the exchange rate for China 41 6y
+13 Can you recall you first day of trading? 10 12y
+33 Engineer ----> Trader 57 13y
+12 Charts Show Gold Sell-off Could Get A Lot Uglier 4 6y
+134 Goldman or Bust? 96 5y
0 Should you Bet on Crude, Zinc, Gold Now? Experts Guide 0 13y
0 Base Metals TA vs Research 1 13y
0 Investing Pros Look East for Signs of Gold Rebound 0 6y
0 I basically need a lot of help. 19 12y
0 GETCO -> KCG Holdings LLC. 9 6y
0 Call all algo traders... 3 6y
+38 Any short-end rates traders around? 40 12y
0 Wolverine Trading - Salary & Bonus - Trading Data 13y
0 The programmer-trader divide at prop shops 0 6y
0 What is considered a successful quantitative trading strategy 4 13y
0 USD/JPY - BoJ asset purchase already priced in? 3 6y
0 Payrises and Moving Jobs 2 13y
0 The FX/Commodities/Equity/Options/ETC Traders thread 16 12y
+4 OppenheimerFunds 7 7y
0 Mutual Funds vs Sales and Trading 0 13y

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