Sales and Trading Forum

Start Discussion
Recently Active New Topics Trending
Select Time
Global Countries
+18 Moving from BO to S&T 6 5y
+18 BB Alternative Investments vs BB S&T for HF exit ops 7 14y
+18 The trouble with volatility. 10 14y
+18 JPM CIO prop trader with $100B position in CDX 14 14y
+18 Petroleum Engineer to Natural Gas Trader? 6 11mo
+18 Deciding between prop trading offers: PEAK6 vs Gelber vs TMG vs Spot 19 6y
+18 Shell X BP Merger 7 1y
+18 SMB Capital vs T3 Trading Group 8 13y
+18 CFDs vs Vanilla trading account for a rookie 6 13y
+18 What are my odds breaking through? Energy/Power Trading [Canada] 8 2y
+18 How Sharp of a drop off is there between the top banks and everyone else? 9 4y
+18 Moving from Middle office (Credit trading) to brokerage sales 5 4y
+18 Is shorting your competition legal? 19 13y
+18 Leaving "Tier 2" firm to go to "Tier 1" within 6 months? 1 4y
+18 GS S&T SA 2024 London 19 2y
+18 Credit derivatives trader -> macro HF 2 4y
+18 One question 5 12y
+18 Money Markets Trading - Some questions 6 12y
+18 Traders4ACause 2019 conference - worth going? 1 6y
+18 Can banks prop trade FX and Rates product or not? 12 4y
+18 Exit Opportunities from Product Management in S&T – Seeking Advice 1 2y
+18 Hydrogen Trading? 9 6y
+18 Trading Desk Operations at Jane Street 17 4y
+18 ICAP Summer Internship (Odds of moving to IB full-time) (HELP) 3 2y
+18 Riding the TSLA momentum... 11 12y
+18 Econ vs Finance - Fixed Income Trading/AM/IB 8 4y
+18 We did it… 4 3y
+18 Breaking into UK S&T/Quant from Australian Target 4 2y
+18 QT Internship vs. BB FT 10 11mo
+18 Lateral movement 1 4y
+18 Poker Skills / Quant Trading / Market Making 1 2y
+18 tapering and currency depreciation 20 6y
+18 MathHeads.net - Level up your mental math skills 6 3y
+18 Banking to Inst. Sales 3 6y
+18 STIRT - Short Term Interest Rate Trading 9 11y
+18 Bank rates traders making $2m+? 9 2y
+18 Commodity Recruiters 6 11y
+18 the lack of TRIGGERS 4 11y
+18 Can I algo trade as an individual investor? 14 11y
+18 Trading Blog - Week 4 0 6y
+18 Move timing 6 6y
+18 Opinions on IMC Trading 7 2y
+18 Sales Trader on Electronic Desk 5 6y
+18 Terminal Color Schemes: Beyond Red/Green - Impact on Trading Psychology? 2 2y
+18 Optiver 1st Round Quantitative Assessment 2 4y
+18 Include Incoming Role on Resume for 2021 SA? 5 6y
+18 SIG PHONE INTERVIEW 55 9y
+18 Louis Dreyfus Trader Trainee Program or Commodities Trading in General 39 9y
+18 S&T: Future Outlook, Preparation, and Early Career Advice 6 1y
+18 Buy Side VS Sell side trading 9 9y
+18 What do professional traders read before starting the day? 13 9y
+18 Desks and Firms with the Best Culture 18 9y
+18 Crazy ex threatens my work 11 4y
+18 Quanty/technical desks 13 2y
+18 Macro trading desks at BB's 14 9y
+18 How to position myself for an S&T role from a non-target 16 2y
+18 robinhood for traders 9 6y
+18 Machine Learning for Trading 8 4y
+18 Different Desks on the trading floor 1 6y
+18 the career tradeoff for a PM - commodity merchant vs hedge fund - depth vs bredth. 7 6y
+18 QT/QR/S&T - what statistics topics to self study in preparation for internship applications? 5 2y
+18 Commodities - trade finance 5 10mo
+18 HELP - Daily function of a structurer 11 3y
+18 Target schools for Prop firms 14 4y
+18 Mock portfolios... Yay or Nay ? 6 8y
+18 S&T in Asia from UK semi/target? 12 4y
+18 Future of someone working as a GS strat 4 6y
+18 Interview with shorter term trading fund - what to expect? 1 2y
+18 ....... ..................... .......... ....... 1 3y
+18 First Round Interview at Five Rings Capital LLC? 38 8y
+18 BB SA S&T – What desk to choose? 6 8y
+18 Q&A Equity VP Trader 14 4y
+18 Market Making Interview Game 6 3y
+18 Let's talk about insider trading 2 4y
+18 Moving from IBD to Sales 17 8y
+18 Didn't get a finance related internship after sophomore year. Chance for BB S&T? 4 6y
+18 Trafigura Grad Program... hours, exit? 6 8y
+18 Trading tech/Quant Career path 12 5y
+18 I can show you how to look at the markets like a proper key risk taker 14 8mo
+18 Exits from Market Risk at VP level? 5 2y
+18 Commodity Sales at BB - Culture, Hours, Career Prospects/Growth? 4 3y
+18 CAREER TRANSITION FROM PHYSICAL COMMODITIES TRADE TO FINANCIAL TRADE 13 8y
+18 Trading Bonus - how should I bring up my 2021 bonus discussion? 4 5y
+18 Goldman Sachs Superday for FICC and Equities | Sales & Trading NYC Office 7 8mo
+18 HELP, I NEED HELP. 7 4y
+18 Millennium vs Goldman Sachs 18 1y
+18 Brent Frontline Swap Help 9 8y
+18 Advice on how to construct trade idea 3 3y
+18 Q&A: Building Live Trading Strategies (Quant Finance + ML + LLMs)” 1 7mo
+18 Energy Traders 3 3y
+18 Distressed Debt in S&T 6 6y
+18 CBOE VIX index & Monte Carlo application to Simulate Risk/ P&L of single Physical Comodity Trade 1 8y
+18 Advices on which desk in S&T is good for me? 14 1y
+18 Del 11 1y
+18 MD Interview - Trade Support/Capture 1 8y
+18 Morgan Stanley Fixed Income Summer Analyst Superday 2018 36 8y
+18 Cornell Masters in applied stats to prop trading 15 5y
+18 S&T and IB 11 6mo
+18 IB exit into commodity trading? 6 3y
+18 SIG Salaries 18 4y

Trending Content

View all

Career Resources

Career Advancement Opportunities

October 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.5%
  • Moelis & Company 01 99.0%
  • JPMorgan 01 98.4%
  • Guggenheim Partners 02 97.9%
  • Morgan Stanley 06 97.4%
View IB Report

Overall Employee Satisfaction

October 2026 Investment Banking

  • Moelis & Company No 99.5%
  • Morgan Stanley 02 99.0%
  • Evercore 01 98.4%
  • Banco Santander 02 97.9%
  • BMO Capital Markets 13 97.4%
View IB Report

Professional Growth Opportunities

October 2026 Investment Banking

  • Evercore 01 99.5%
  • Moelis & Company 01 99.0%
  • Morgan Stanley 05 98.4%
  • Goldman Sachs 01 97.9%
  • JPMorgan No 97.4%
View IB Report

Total Avg Compensation

October 2026 Investment Banking

  • Vice President (16) $429
  • Associates (57) $264
  • 3rd+ Year Analyst (8) $210
  • 2nd Year Analyst (28) $184
  • Intern/Summer Associate (16) $161
  • 1st Year Analyst (84) $151
  • Intern/Summer Analyst (76) $101
View IB Report
notes
16 IB Interviews Notes

“... there’s no excuse to not take advantage of the resources out there available to you. Best value for your $ are the...”

Read more

Leaderboard

1
redever's picture
redever		 99.2
2
kanon's picture
kanon		 99.0
3
Secyh62's picture
Secyh62		 99.0
4
BankonBanking's picture
BankonBanking		 99.0
5
CompBanker's picture
CompBanker		 98.9
6
Betsy Massar's picture
Betsy Massar		 98.9
7
dosk17's picture
dosk17		 98.9
8
GameTheory's picture
GameTheory		 98.9
9
DrApeman's picture
DrApeman		 98.9
10
Kenny_Powers_CFA's picture
Kenny_Powers_CFA		 98.8
View all
success
From 10 rejections to 1 dream investment banking internship

“... I believe it was the single biggest reason why I ended up with an offer...”

Read more