+90 Sell Side and Buy Side Trading Career Path 107 8y
+5 What counts as a light exotic? 3 8y
+12 Green Plains? 6 8y
+3 How would you grow a small S&T desk 1 8y
+104 Sell me on why I should become a trader. 49 8y
+3 What is the best trading system? 3 8y
+7 Enterprise Software Sales to S&T? 4 8y
+30 Quantitative Research vs Trading 37 8y
+4 Sales Assistant 2 8y
+22 Call delta Put delta 8 8y
+10 Is sales and trading dying? 16 8y
+18 First Round Interview at Five Rings Capital LLC? 38 8y
+12 Good enough for wall street?! 1 8y
0 Apexatropin Review for instance and discouragement 0 8y
+12 Finance question problem 1 8y
+21 Cover Letter's Importance? 23 8y
0 WSO Finance Internship Guide 3 8y
0 Marquette Partners: interviews, more information? 2 8y
0 to what extent is VBA used in S&T? 19 8y
0 Electronic Trading 8 8y
+10 How much math is enough math? 19 8y
0 Prime Brokerage Risk Interview 1 8y
+15 Must Read Books for Salespeople 23 8y
0 Better for FT S&T: IDB or IBD? or something else? 0 8y
+10 WH Trading 7 8y
+20 So what are traders personalities really like? 17 8y
+23 Math or Computer Science degree for S&T? 20 8y
0 Applying to both IBD and S&T -- a liability? 18 8y
0 GS Securities (S&T) Sophomore Internship Advice?? 18 8y
+4 Morgan Stanley Strats and Modeling written exam for interview part 1 3 8y
0 Boutique S&T 14 8y
0 UniCredit FX Trading 14 8y
+36 BP (and the oil majors) trading 25 8y
0 Series 3 Study tips 6 8y
+14 liar's poker 25 8y
+15 Any structurers here? Is it a good career choice? Need advice. 10 8y
+40 How much math is required for a career in S&T? 63 8y
0 Best Emerging Markets desk 8 8y
+14 Exit opps/ Prestige for/of Big Oil trading? 14 8y
+3 UBS Trading Analyst - Behavioral questions 2 8y
+27 Rate traders: how do you generate trade ideas? 30 8y
+7 Best Trading desk at Merrill Lynch 8 8y
+3 Repo vs Securities Lending 1 8y
+3 From Contract Admin to Trading 1 8y
+10 Equity Financing 2 8y
+3 How interested are you in wearing hair extensions? 1 8y
+3 Male Liberator to reach the ones desires 1 8y
+12 Question regarding daily Pnl Computation. 1 8y
+17 Insight on CD Trading Desks? 3 8y
+3 Bulge Bracket or Mid-Cap Bank Background Checks 1 8y
+20 Most Prestigious Product Groups 4 8y
+3 Total Radiance Teeth Many congenital 1 8y
+32 Sales and Trading VS. Capital Markets 39 8y
+29 Why do you guys always wear vests? 28 8y
+3 Game Theory at SIG Susquehanna 1 8y
+49 State of Credit markets now and in the future? 36 8y
+25 Citi Drug Test 34 8y
+20 Electronic Trading Desks 10 8y
+3 Ultimate Labs CBD Oil plan that works which 1 8y
+6 Fitting Curve 1 8y
+50 Front Office Quants (strats, AES, MSET) 31 8y
+3 Breaking in Debt Sales at BB 1 8y
0 Front Desk Quant in BAML vs Quant Strategy Trader in Knight 5 8y
+19 Do traders really make more money than desk quants? 9 8y
+17 Cryan on Equities and Long Rates Businesses 4 8y
+18 Mock portfolios... Yay or Nay ? 6 8y
+20 Goldman Commodities Profits - What happened? 3 8y
+13 Prop Trading Firms in Atlanta, GA 2 8y
+24 Why is the 30 year rate so low? 8 8y
+26 Free Derivatives quoting API or excel add in? 19 8y
+12 Prop Trading Firm for Entry 1 8y
+28 Butterfly Trades Question 3 8y
+29 Breaking into large HF from BB trading analyst role 23 8y
0 JH Darbie & Co S&T interview on Thursday 17 8y
+24 Pick a stock you like and why? 21 8y
+20 Bank Electronic Trading Desk 12 8y
0 Rotman International Trading Competition, Legit? 24 8y
0 S&T -> MBA -> opportunities? 19 8y
+58 Converting an S&T Internship 39 8y
+3 Barclays S&T bonuses 1 8y
+35 GETCO vs Jump vs DRW vs Optiver 51 8y
+21 EM FX/Rates Trading interview - preparation 5 8y
+3 Green Labs CBD Oil symptoms since it's 1 8y
+4 Where should I apply for Prop trading, 2018? 2 8y
+3 How to prepare for sales interview? 2 8y
0 What do Exotic Derivatives flows look like in 2017? 3 8y
+3 Massive Testo significantly how an awful 1 8y
0 Intro to Quantitative Finance Book 9 8y
+25 Jump trading 29 8y
+72 What exactly do you do as a 1st/2nd year S&T analyst? 70 8y
+30 FT Decision: Concerns over SnT Exit Opps 18 8y
+53 Top BB FX/Rates Sales >> Macro fund... Possible?? 72 8y
+8 Long-Term Career: Quant Fund vs. HFT, which is better 4 8y
+33 Day to Day of Investment Grade Credit Trading 16 8y
+25 Retail Trader in College, helpful for certain careers? 9 8y
+12 AkunaCapital Trading Intern - Mental Math Test and Interview Process 1 8y
+3 Oil Recovery 1 8y
+19 Is it safe to assume I am fucked? If not, how can I pull it together (TL;DR at bottom) 6 8y
+20 Usefulness of econometrics in trading 8 8y
+3 Confused about trader comp 3 8y

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