No Work Experience (Trading)

I'm a sophomore without any real work experience in finance, but I've been trading for around 5 years and acquired a good deal of knowledge about trading (relative to my age). This has resulted in me winning 4/4 trading competitions that I've entered. 2 competitions were stock, 1 competition was options, and one was futures. All were sponsored by reputable firms/organizations and had ~(50, 150, 150, 5,000 competitors.) These competitions also tracked the market in real time.

2 Questions) 1) For those on this board who look at resumes, how would you view this for a sophomore without work experience, but an obvious real interest in trading?

2) Last year as a freshman I was rejected from everything that I applied to, and really want to get started early this year on becoming the most desirable applicant that I can be. What skills do you find most relevant/desirable for trading interns?

3) My returns were all very large due to the "game theory" factor in trading competitions. My best response portfolio to other competitors is never going to have the same risk tolerance as if I weren't competing, but were rather simply trying to maximize utility. 97% in 10 weeks 46% in 3 weeks 37% in 1 week 42% in 2 weeks

(competitions were longer than a few weeks, but I stopped trading I felt my margin was large enough to win)

Should I leave the actual returns off of my resume? Since they are so large? I think it is pretty obvious that I just did not "get lucky" 4 times in a row, but still I wouldn't want my understanding of risk management in a real world setting to go misunderstood.

4 Comments
 

If you could actually post those results consistently in the market, you don't need a job, just invest your own money and crush it.

Since I doubt you can post similar results over a long run (beating virtually every fund in existence...), you should think about what the numbers will say.

I'd mention that you have won trading competitions, but focus on your strategy rather than the results. If the strategy is interesting, then you may have something.

 

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