preparing for Sales and Trading applications

I am an incoming MSc Finance student and would then like to go into Sales and Trading, any advice on what i should do over summer in order to make my September applications stand out? Any courses that i should do? Should i learn python? 

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1) Python + Excel / VBA

2) data science (Machine Learning / Neural Nets / Statistics)

these can be learned easily from free/cheap video courses (its all for free on youtube if you spend the time to look...also Coursera or Udemy if you need a little more hand holding)

just google it...you're welcome
 

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