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+16 Scoular? 5 8y
+16 Option Questions 4 8y
+16 How many traders does a BB in fixed income on average employ? 6 6y
+16 What are technical Skills I can foster as a Sales? 4 3y
+16 [London] Sales and Trading (S&T) SA 2024 7 2y
+16 Risk analyst salary 10 4y
+16 Felony Record about to be expunged advice on how to get into IB or S&T? 6 3y
+16 Is it Becoming Harder to Make Money in Algo Trading? 9 6y
+16 Goldman Sachs summer 2026 updates 25 1y
+16 Prop trader to PM-track role at asset manager 7 6y
+16 ELI5 - What do (prop) traders do 2 3y
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+16 Energy Risk Management 8 6y
+16 Will the market crash again? 6 6y
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+16 Physical Commodity Broker -> Sales 5 6y
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+16 Sales and Trading Exit Opps 8 3y
+16 2008 Summer Analyst List of Banks of Apply to 11 5y
+16 Mathematical Competency For Trading 12 5y
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+16 2019 BB Sales & Trading recruiting timeline? 19 8y
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+16 Is Oil And Gas A Good Buy Right Now? 6 6y
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+16 private futures accounts 11 7y
+16 How much autonomy do you have in sales and trading? 4 7y
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+16 Morgan Stanley S&T Phone Interview (SA 2021) 5 6y
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+16 Senior traders at investment banks? 6 2y
+16 Trading with different banks 7 6y
+16 What to prepare for the final round case study for a position of Junior Trader at Flow Traders? 10 6y
+16 How much entertaining to salespeople do at junior levels? 1 7y
+16 Credit Suisse S&T 2021 SA 65 5y
+16 Leveraging FT Offer 6 7y
+16 Citi VP offer negotiation (London) 8 1y
+16 Calgary Energy Trading Desks 22 6y
+16 What are the career progression options for a quant? 3 7y
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+16 No Return Offer - But good References 4 6y
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+16 Institutional Sales Pay? 9 6y
+16 S&T Exit Opps 6 2y
+16 Strategy for Choosing Desks S&T SA 9 3y
+16 Apex capital holdings LLC 11 6y
+16 Equity guys VS Fixed Income guys 9 6y
+16 $150mm day trader hermit 14 3y
+16 Optiver vs DRW NYC for Summer Internship? 19 6y
+16 Machine learning or econometrics? 6 6y
+16 NYC Proprietary Trading Firms 8 6y
+16 Trading at Louis Dreyfus 8 2y
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+16 How do banks make money off swaps? 25 6y
+16 UK - Interested in a Career in Structuring/Trading - MSc Finance LSE offer - Happy to provide what information I can in return 4 6y
+16 Options Trading (Short term) 5 6y
+16 Trafigura's London Office? 2 6y
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+16 Careers at Minority Owned Broker Dealers 2 6y
+16 Government Agency, Repo, LatAm credit trading-->Global Macro HF 5 6y
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+16 Offers from MS, GS, Citi and JPM for SA S&T, may renege. 18 1y
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+16 More Regulation in Sales and Trading? 7 5y
+16 Commodity Hedging Firm Abroad, Interview Prep 2 6y

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  • Morgan Stanley 02 99.0%
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  • Morgan Stanley 05 98.4%
  • Goldman Sachs 01 97.9%
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  • 1st Year Analyst (84) $151
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