Please Take a Minute to Give Some Advice...

Hello all,

From a non-target, 3.3 GPA, Ops and Finance internships at blackrock/lehman respectively.

My plan is to...Full-time, do 2 years in Risk (credit or market), then move into portfolio analytics for 3 years?(or however long the years are usually), and then go into trading?

Is this a possible path?

Which degrees will help more? CFA? MSF?

And i don't mean trading at a sell-side firm, more like buy-side/AM/IM like BlackRock?

Please provide some advice, I'd appreciate it. Thanks in advance!

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