0 Payrises and Moving Jobs 2 12y
0 Mutual Funds vs Sales and Trading 0 12y
0 Most Quanty/Techy group in S&T 3 12y
+15 Smithfield SEC case - blatant insider trading 9 12y
+81 Bear Market 2014/2015 43 12y
0 Credit Ain't Dead 7 12y
+20 Silver ETFs 6 12y
+9 Must Read Books for Aspiring Traders 13 12y
0 Institutional Equity Trade Process 1 12y
+58 Why It's a Good Time to Buy Gold & Silver 34 12y
0 What are the factors that determine the short tern trend of a stock? 1 12y
0 LEAPS 21 12y
0 Energy Trading: BB vs. Supermajor vs. Commodity Trading House 10 12y
0 Prop shops diversifying their businesses 0 12y
0 Is Allston Trading falling apart? 2 12y
0 How should I land summer internship? 2 12y
+33 Commodities Trading Question 19 12y
0 GLD SLV 2 12y
0 RPXC 9 12y
0 Back Office or Middle Office 6 12y
+48 How large is the trading account of an average trader (not prop) at a BB? 18 12y
0 tech driven prop MMs: what do humans do? 3 12y
0 Another transcript / grades stuff 5 13y
0 Best way to short Yen / JGBs? 10 13y
0 sophomore summer internship at big asset management company 2 13y
+23 Shouldn't GS be paying its interns more? 11 13y
+7 young stupid and new! 7 13y
0 Quick question on calculating implied values of ETF and futures 2 13y
+4 Trading Questions 2 13y
0 ETF trading books 1 13y
0 Call option question 7 13y
0 Do traders rotate? 3 13y
0 What does in mean to be "bought in" withing the context of SecLending Trading 3 13y
0 What is better for MBA or MIF 3 13y
0 Trading Support Analyst Excel VBA requirement 11 13y
0 Best Forex Prop Trading 2 13y
+4 Wikinvest Equivalent for Interactive Brokers? 3 13y
0 William Blair Taxable Fixed Income Internship 0 13y
0 Rank MM/International Banks for S&T? 1 13y
0 Commitment of Traders 1 13y
0 Putting the Job hunt on hold? 3 13y
0 STC Series 40th Edition instead of 41 (most recent)? 0 13y
+23 A Ticking Time Bomb 12 13y
+2 Where To find Schedule/info on when Fed/ Gov/ Industry reports data? ( employment,retail sales, labor mkt, etc reports?) 8 13y
0 What Everyone Else Thinks of Trading 6 13y
0 Would it give me an advantage? 3 13y
0 Can you use a Stop and Stop Limit Simultaneously? 5 13y
+3 Need a Stock Ticker 4 13y
0 Experienced Traders: How do you define a spike? 0 13y
0 Where to go after prop trading 2 13y
+23 What's the deal with Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FMCC)? 29 13y
0 Basic Options Question 7 13y
0 End of prop trading? Maybe not 6 13y
0 What did you learn first 7 13y
0 Volcker Rule Clarification 1 13y
0 LNG export approval: Impact on natural gas trading? 1 13y
+29 Trading Discipline - What have you done to get pass the feeling of "it'll go back up so i won't sell now" mentality? 9 13y
0 Learn to be on the sell side? 2 13y
+1 making money everyday for the first quarter? 3 13y
0 Good resource for learning about recent macro events? 3 13y
0 JASO and Solar stocks 2 13y
0 Fixed income modeling 16 13y
+21 Ernest P. Chan's "Quantitative Trading" - Best book for starter ? 16 13y
+19 Tell us the story of how you became a trader 22 13y
+27 Better sophomore internship for S&T junior internship at BB? 38 13y
0 Books on Event Driven Strategies 3 13y
0 Application of Interest Rates in Algo Trading 2 13y
0 Jefferies Fixed Income 25 13y
0 Where do all the cowboys go 1 13y
0 Google Integrates Wallet Into Gmail 7 13y
+18 CFDs vs Vanilla trading account for a rookie 6 13y
0 BB structuring vs Trading shop 1 13y
+27 Lateraling from top prop. shops to BB S&T and Hedge Funds 8 13y
0 Better place to start? 4 13y
+22 What is US Power Trading? 16 13y
0 Average Prop Desk Fees 1 13y
0 Refinery Outages 4 13y
+16 write a letter to yourself 10 years ago. what would it say? 12 13y
0 How a broker spent $520m in a drunken stupor 13 13y
0 What % do you consider a success? 6 13y
0 How is an internship at Deutsche Borse looked upon? 1 13y
0 FT Recruiting after SA Internship 2 13y
0 Average first-year comp. at reputable prop. shops? 1 13y
0 Would you say that WSO is a reliable source of information? 6 13y
0 Is there a way? 3 13y
+18 SMB Capital vs T3 Trading Group 8 13y
0 Associate S&T 7 13y
0 Valuing stock-based compensation using which measure of volatility? 1 13y
0 Prop Trading SA @ TMG 1 13y
0 Aardvark Trading 9 13y
0 MS FICC = Sinking Ship? 6 13y
0 Taking a year out after university - how do I improve my chances of getting hired? 9 13y
0 PTJ Trader Film on Vimeo 4 13y
+27 Experienced quants: what kind of Math/Comp Sci/Stats/Econ do you actually use in quant trading and finance? 9 13y
0 How much initially do I need to make decent money trading forex? 8 13y
+4 Jefferies Research Sales - Cash Equity 2 13y
0 Trader career path, salary and exit opps, asked before but need help! 6 13y
+16 I say farewell to wso... good luck everyone 22 13y
0 FX Interview 8 13y
+11 Flash Crash of Tuesday 1:06 P.M. 15 13y

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