+3 Have a financial product Sales position interview, how to prep? 1 4y
+9 How To Know What You Get Paid When Switching 2 4y
+6 Equity Sales - Compensation Progression 7 4y
+9 Deleted 1 4y
0 Breaking into Commodity Brokering 2 4y
+2 did pierre deal in physical movement of oil at vitol 4 4y
+6 Network Etiquette - S&T to IB 1 4y
+7 What are the Top 3 Major Indices? 1 4y
+6 Wells Fargo S&T outlook? 4 4y
+26 Stigma Against Late Starters (Lateral)? 14 4y
+23 internships as a student looking at a career in commodity trading 11 4y
+3 PA trading for those in BB S&T 1 4y
+3 What teams are involved in exotic equities trading? 1 4y
+18 Trading -- Mentally Exhausting for the Pros Too? 16 4y
+3 Starting a new trader job, tips? 4 4y
+12 Game Theory Strategies for Interviews 6 4y
+16 Mathematical Competency For Trading 12 4y
+5 300-400k first year compensation at HFT? 5 4y
+3 deleted 1 4y
+44 Trading and Mental Arithmetic 36 4y
+16 How to play betting games 4 4y
0 S&T Analyst Interview: Rate Sales 1 4y
+27 What do I do with $30,000 40 4y
+12 Commodities Trading vs. Rates/Credit Structuring 2 4y
+102 The HR for trading is full of idiots 96 4y
+3 Deleted 1 4y
+15 How do I break into commodity trading? 13 4y
+4 Is Physical commodity trading a desk job or do traders still travel a lot? 13 4y
0 Miami-based Statar Capital 3 4y
+3 MM S&T NYC or BB S&T Regional 1 4y
0 What are some exit opps for equity derivatives? 7 4y
+5 power prop trading vs CCI rotational trading program 14 4y
+8 Return Offer Secured: Now what? 5 4y
+4 Macquarie Psychometrics 2 4y
+7 distressed debt market making: how does it work? 2 4y
+133 How to Start Trading (Compliments of Bondarb) 61 4y
0 How much would you bet? 1 4y
+6 Goldman Sachs distressed trading desk - good place to be? 1 4y
0 Have a phone interview for a Global Markets Sales position at a bank, how to prep? 1 4y
+18 PIMCO Vs S&T 5 4y
+7 Anyone ever lateral from IB to S&T (Sales side)? 8 4y
+9 How does a Master's in Mathematics/Statistics sound for my case? 1 4y
+7 Protein meal trading 2 4y
+1 What’s the most memorable stopout/blowup you’ve experienced? Own or someone you know 2 4y
+21 Marking to Market a Cross Currency Swap - Components of NPV MTM 7 4y
+1 HR Wants to schedule a phone call with me a week after Superday? 2 4y
+16 CME Internship 7 4y
+3 GS Women's Trader Academy UK 3 4y
+6 Interview prep/expectations for lateral hire (S&T) 1 4y
+12 What is realistic salary progression for top BB (GS/JPM/etc.) fixed income derivatives trader? 15 4y
+3 Optiver Institutional Trading 1 4y
+8 Could I have squeezed out a few more dollars? 6 4y
+6 What can be negotiated for a SA offer? 4 4y
+5 London 2022 Grad Salaries 3 4y
+50 A Response to "Which desk is best?" Type Questions... Please Read Before Posting 14 4y
0 Hello - any Prop Traders here ? 2 4y
+37 Sales vs Trading 8 4y
+38 Trafigura Graduate Programme, 2017 47 4y
+1 Want to learn trading , where to start ? 2 4y
+6 Starting new job in FX, any advice 1 4y
+26 Thoughts on Tesla getting into Energy trading 17 4y
+4 EM trading question 2 4y
+3 Goldman option advisory group 1 4y
0 What behavioral skills are important for S&T 1 4y
+4 To my smart traders: can I manage a book of unaccredited investors? 1 4y
+3 Evercore ISI 1 4y
+6 Market Risk to trading 1 4y
+13 What resources are the best to learn programming for Quantitative Trading? 4 4y
+14 What are you trading? 31 4y
+3 Traders, are you better off compare to 10 years ago? 1 4y
+3 Trending topics in emerging markets 1 4y
+103 Calling all Physical Commodity TRADERS: Benchmark indices and physical commodity trading risk 22 4y
+7 Getting into New Analyst Programme at 28y old with two masters and 1-2 work experience? 7 4y
+12 S&T Exit Opps 5 4y
+3 Booking Series 7 Exam - CRD number not working 1 4y
+31 Jane Street vs Optiver Internship (Summer 2021) 28 4y
+3 New associate comp? 1 4y
0 instagram 1 4y
+18 Bnp Paribas S&T Internship 13 4y
+8 Trafigura Calgary Grad Program 7 4y
+3 S&T recruitment 2 4y
+9 IRS Questions 1 4y
0 Barclays 2021 hiring process? 1 4y
0 non compete agreements 4 4y
+7 Which BB have the strongest structuring desks? 7 4y
+1 eFX - Electronic FX Sales 4 4y
+6 Books for Market making trainees 1 4y
+8 Structured Products 2 4y
+6 Do you see the Markets and S&T divisions at other top banks getting a pay bump as well? 2 4y
+10 Is it uncommon to see a move from phys commodities to steel? 3 4y
+9 Goldman Sachs Structured Finance & Lending (SFL) 2 4y
+3 Pros and Cons of trading for a utility’s merchant arms vs bank vs a trade house? 3 4y
+9 WSO ALPHA | TRADE ALERT | SELL | September 1, 2021 1 4y
+4 Sales and Trading career 2 4y
+76 Returning back to office (for people that didn't take the vaccine) 29 4y
+9 Levitra Online, the male enhancement pill online 1 4y
+15 Thoughts on carbon trading? 4 4y
+12 CS Superday Week of 23rd 4 4y
+23 Increased interest in Commodity Trading on this forum 20 4y
+3 Fee Percentage Split 1 4y

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