0 Help, what to do?! 13 17y
0 Good P&L numbers 5 17y
0 Dresscode on the Trading Floor 25 17y
0 Goldman and Merrill Almost Junk 7 17y
0 6-1 interview 3 17y
+7 Structured Credit Trading 12 5y
0 forex and commodities 9 8y
0 Official Desk Dynamics 4 12y
0 Deperate for sales! 2 17y
0 to put or not to put in resume 6 4y
+6 Wild West of Desks 5 17y
0 College senior interested in trading 4 17y
+16 the "it" factor for traders 10 17y
0 trading enviroment+$$ 5 17y
0 What is so bad about equities? 16 13y
+10 Enrty-level BB Proprietary Trading 16 17y
+21 Structuring vs. Trading 29 7y
0 Structured EM trading 4 17y
0 ML London: best desks for Markets (had mistakenly put this in I-Banking discussion) 1 4y
0 New Products? 4 17y
0 MS Fixed Income Question 4 4y
0 Need some advice for interview, etc. 2 17y
0 Hottest desk(s) 0 17y
+15 Average Career Length of a Trader... 16 17y
0 S&T for Energy Rankings 12 17y
0 UBS Russian equities 0 4y
0 Opportunities after 2 years 6 17y
0 Totally Shut Out of 1st Round Interviews 6 17y
+18 trading at oil companies 18 7y
+9 S&T Analysts and Their Contracts 10 17y
0 Rejected From Lehman Summer START Pre-Interview 5 17y
0 GS Equities 3 17y
0 Move to trading from quant 1 17y
+22 Master's Program in Quantitative Finance 24 17y
0 List of good trading/structuring internship programs? 7 17y
+59 Get into energy trading now? job prospects, salary, etc. 84 7y
+117 Just HOW MUCH MATH does a trader need? 164 4y
+24 A few good men 10 17y
0 RESUME ASSESSMENT - Sophmore at an elite college 21 4y
0 S&T Program Interview Assistance 1 17y
0 Daily trading volume of Equities, Fixed Income, Forex 6 17y
0 Your take on stock prices 10 17y
0 Interview Help - Been actively trading 2 8y
0 Internships in trading? 1 17y
0 52 week % vs YTD % 3 17y
0 a few newb questions 2 17y
0 2006 Stub Bonuses 5 17y
0 Need Help - Seeking info about interest rate sales groups 8 8y
0 Institutional Equities Sales Interview 3 4y
0 Importance of Firm 1 17y
0 lehman brothers s&T- best desk 13 17y
0 SUSQ versus CITI 1 17y
0 typical career path for a trader 30 6y
+9 Bond Sales and Trading 35 15y
0 Trading assistant salary 2 4y
+8 from sales to trading 14 2mo
0 Derivative Marketer ? 10 17y
+18 Prop trading vs Flow/Market Making 7 7y
0 which is brockerage is best for beginners 11 17y
0 How to respond to an HR email... 8 17y
0 Fixed Income vs. Currencies vs. Commodities at GS FICC 1 17y
0 What is most exciting about it? 5 17y
0 Putting up your own capital 9 1y
+24 Fixed Income VS Equity ? 41 1y
0 From S&T to the Buy side? 2 8y
0 Any UM grads here? 2 4y
0 Which would be more advantageous 17 17y
0 The 2006 All-America Fixed-Income Research Team 3 11y
0 Some things you can brush up to help for S&T 6 17y
+50 It's your lucky day 134 12y
0 Which Undergraduate Education option? 3 4y
+1 Lehman START analyst program 12 11y
+19 Structured Credit vs. Prop Trading 6 3y
0 Back-office work 14 3y
0 Wachovia S&T First Round 8 4y
0 Questions for SA '07 S&T 10 17y
0 SIG and DC-Energy 7 16y
0 Any Canadian or US BB traders around? 8 4y
0 Equity Desks 2 17y
0 Lehman's Energy Group 9 17y
+19 Do many move from IB to trading? 58 17y
+11 Just gambling? 10 8y
+8 Foot in the Door - Shed some light 5 8y
0 Undergrad Degree 23 17y
+2 Anyone go to the Trader Monthly party at Harry's? 9 7y
0 derivatives desk 5 17y
0 The Hottest Desk 21 17y
+19 Sales and Trading Bonueses 64 12y
0 Are we seeing a vol regime change? 5 3y

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