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+43 How Prestigious is Jane Street Capital? 71 3y
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0 NASD Licenses? Like Series 7? 2 19y
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+26 Credit or Commodities Trading 18 7y
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+3 Sales vs. Trading: functions, type of personality and skill set for each? 2 11y
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0 Switch from Engineering to Trading - BS in EE from a target 40 9y
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0 to math or not to math 5 19y
+7 The difference between buy-side and sell-side. 21 18y
0 so I've been properly predicting (a lot of) stocks lately... 22 19y
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0 Average GPA from S/T 5 19y
+8 Merrill vs. Morgan Stanley vs Lehman 9 7y
0 Breaking in to S&T from a non-target school. 8 6y
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0 How to advance fast? 5 19y
0 Best Desks at Lehman S&T 4 13y
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0 Which traders are the ones that get the $50 million bonuses? 10 19y
0 S&T After College 4 19y
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0 Options Indicators 44 17y
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0 Difference between fixed income desks 40 18y
0 Advice Please - Junior at HYPM 12 10y
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0 Advice Needed - Junior majoring in econ at a target 1 10y
0 Most up and comming product? 15 15y
0 Locations for traders to live 6 18y
0 S&T Bonuses 33 18y
0 Do traders get into business school? 26 19y
0 Choosing electives in target ugrad b-school for trading 6 6y
0 Just another friday on the floor 18 19y
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0 Analyst Rankings - How do firms rank? 6 10y
0 Visiting Goldman S&T tomorrow. Need questions. 12 19y
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0 Advice for a programmer trying to get into trading 1 6y
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+10 Trader at Fannie Mae. Prestigious? 14 19y
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