+102 The HR for trading is full of idiots 96 5y
+35 Turning Down GS S&T for... 31 18y
0 where do you go from here? 1 18y
+2 How Can I Earn banana? 18 11y
0 Salary at Bulge Bracket I-Bank vs. Fido/Wellington/State Street 2 18y
0 SIG and DRW 15 18y
0 who's tearing it up in this market? 7 18y
0 futures question 1 18y
0 S & T cover letters. 0 18y
0 will i get hired? 3 18y
0 First jobs in trading? Please advise. 4 19y
0 Equity Securities Lending Division at MS 0 19y
0 BB equity exotics, utility company or hedge fund 5 6y
0 IR (attn: Jimbo!) 3 18y
0 Commodities and Credit: Sales or Trading 1 19y
+33 Interview Question: Why Trading? 68 5y
0 Interest Rate sales desk 4 19y
0 Help!!! Derivative Desk Trading Interview 25 6y
0 Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy 1 18y
0 Sophomore Summer - Honors Program 1 10y
0 Prop trading for new grad, no salary 22 15y
0 Mathematical models... 3 19y
0 WM Fixed Income Trading/Sales 0 19y
0 Equity exotics vs swaptions trading 7 6y
0 Something to think about.... 5 19y
0 two quetions from interview for trader, want to see your opions 52 19y
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+9 Do you still get a bonus if you dont make Associate? 7 19y
0 Deutsche 2 19y
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0 Quantitative Strategy drops almost 500 bux at Morgan Stanley 4 6y
0 Derivative Sales (Goldman) *A few innocent questions* 13 6y
0 Trading Desks in L.A. 8 19y
0 Is a second year global markets analyst with Merrill Lynch possible? 0 19y
+6 Weeden & Co. LP 14 8y
+11 Jane Street 2nd Round Phone 18 8y
0 Trade Commission regulation? 17 19y
0 Back book 23 19y
0 Quantitative based 2 19y
0 Trade Process 1 19y
0 fixed income / structured product lay-offs 11 6y
0 can grad students go through undergrad recruiting? 5 19y
0 Fixed-Income Traders: What do you think about the HJM model? 10 19y
0 Bernanke 6 19y
0 G.X. Clarke & Company, Susquehanna International Group 2 19y
0 And another french bank starts to implode 13 6y
+33 least pretentious ivy 54 15y
0 Study Abroad Question - Better to apply for an internship in London? 1 6y
0 buy side execution trader 2 19y
0 Reuters: 90% less trading jobs by 2015 2 19y
0 DRW 5 19y
+43 CITI Sales and Trading 103 7y
0 Trading Currenciesssss!!! 0 19y
0 Online Math Test 3 10y
0 Analyst vs non Analyst bonus pool 1 19y
+8 Goldman Moving Some S&Ters To Operations 24 19y
0 Got offer, question on comp package 6 6y
0 Is Flow Trading Becoming Obsolete 1 19y
+10 What do sell-side "traders" do? 13 8y
0 3-MO T Bill 2 19y
+6 Difference betweer Coverage Trader and Liability Trader 5 16y
0 Help me understand the upside potential in Box Spread 2 19y
0 newb question about prop trading 6 19y
0 Deutsche drops $136mm 14 6y
0 HVOL Arb Question 4 19y
+16 2008 Summer Analyst List of Banks of Apply to 11 5y
0 Goldman Firmwide 5 19y
0 European banks in the US in Fixed Income area 2 6y
0 Question on a course 15 19y
0 West Coast Sales/Trading 8 6y
+19 What is S&T? 19 8y
0 Barclays - Carbon emissions trading desk - NYC? 2 6y
0 Programming Literature Reccomendations 2 19y
0 How to prepare with distressed debt trading & research? 0 19y
0 I want to start trading on my own but I don't have any money! 18 12y
0 top 30 under 30 3 19y
0 Top Shops in Canada? 7 6y
0 Munis 4 19y
0 How will the current market crisis affect FT recruiting? 7 19y
0 Taped Phones 6 19y
+19 Commodities Structuring 20 9y
0 Straddles 14 19y
0 6 Month Research Stint? 1 19y
0 Trillium, DE Shaw, Chimera, etc 3 19y
0 Investing simulation competition 2 19y
0 Question about trading internships 11 6y
0 Getting in through fall recruiting 4 19y
0 Proprietary Traders 7 19y
0 Remata Trading 6 19y
0 z-spread 1 19y
0 Wolf of Wall Street 6 6y
0 Trading in Tokyo? 1 6y
0 helpful insight? 1 6y
0 Non-Bank trading 3 19y
0 Important advice for current / future SAs 4 19y
+33 Fixed Income vs. Equities 51 19y
0 Quant Payscale 0 19y
0 Is trading a harder or easier field to break into than ibanking? 10 19y
0 Choosing a prop shop 9 19y
0 A Career Crossroads 3 19y

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