0 Aggressive trading floor culture at American Banks 7 6y
0 Ag Trading - Sydney, London & Chicago 2 6y
0 Analyst trading bonuses 3 6y
0 Aussie Applying For London Graduate Trading Programs 1 6y
0 Should I be depressed? 8 6y
0 HELP: EM Credit Sector Specialist (Desk Strategist) vs Short End Rates Trader 14 6y
0 Move to the desk or stay in IT 11 6y
0 A few questions on swap spread 3 6y
0 Citi FX Options Trading vs PIMCO Portfolio Associate 2 6y
0 European Natural Gas Markets 2 6y
0 Looking for advice from a Trader working in London 0 6y
0 Help on Hedging with Futures 2 6y
0 DRW Final Round Interview - Trading Analyst 4 6y
0 ICAP - Salary 0 6y
0 Equity Sales Exit Opportunities 5 6y
0 GS HK vs MS FI HK vs UBS London vs DB London vs Barclays London 7 6y
0 Chemical Engineer to Finance Internship Help 1 6y
0 Should I leave Equity Sales for client portfolio management at Blackrock? 2 6y
0 Asset swap spread 4 6y
0 Interning in trading before moving to quant 1 6y
0 Best Graduate Trading Schemes 1 6y
0 Dilemma btw job offers 0 6y
0 London day break strategy 0 6y
0 Spring Week 0 6y
0 IBD -> Trading, any advice? 0 6y
0 Mercuria Energy Trading Inc. 0 6y
0 JP Morgan Commodities Trading AC (London) 0 6y
0 Getting a banking job is now an “arms race” - Ex Asiapac head of commodities at Citi. 0 6y
0 Citi Markets SA Superday 1 6y
0 summer internship in global market after master 3 6y
0 New job opening - Oil analyst 0 6y
0 UBS assessment centre UK London 4 6y
0 Goldman Sachs - Interview - 2nd Year Analyst PIPG Eq. Derivatives 3 6y
0 Paper Trading at National Oil and Gas Company: Exit Opportunity into Bank/ CFA advisable ? 0 6y
+1 London Academy of Trading?? 1 6y
+2 How does Brexit affect Summer analysts in London? 1 6y
+3 Goldman second/third round interviews 1 6y
+3 How to stand out in a JP Morgan Iberia Sales Desk Assesment Center? 1 6y
+3 S&T Assesment Center 2019 SA London 3 6y
+3 Conversion Rate Summer Internship 1 6y
+3 Is there a stigma around retail traders.... 1 6y
+3 If I am related to a "public official", how do the banks use this in the application process? 1 6y
+3 Goldman Sachs Superday - London 1 6y
+3 Opinions on these Prop firms in London? 1 6y
+3 1st year Analyst at Deutsche Bank 4 6y
+12 Rates Vol / FX Vol trading desks in London 2 6y
+12 Future of Banking & Trading 1 6y
+12 Do I need a MSc? which one? 1 6y
+12 First Advantage Background check timeline 1 6y
+12 Assessment Centre Credit Suisse S&T London 2020 Summer Internhsip 1 6y
+12 Overall S&T discussion, London S&T 3 6y
+12 S&T Internship after Debt Advisory 1 6y
+14 Best prep for SA in exotic trading 4 6y
+14 Optiver vs Wolverine 3 6y
+14 Moving into the Money Markets space 3 6y
+14 Internship in Asia as a German 4 6y
+14 GS vs Barcs (London S&T SA) 6 6y
+14 S&T offer advice please! 3 6y
+15 London Based HF's, Prop Shops, and Buy Side Firms 11 6y
+15 Global Markets: Calm before the storm? 2 6y
+15 Stay safe or take risk? Opportunity at GS vs follow the instinct 4 6y
+15 MS SA Update 9 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
+17 Macro rates sales 9 6y
+17 The Spanish Equity Market is Facing a Key Moment 2 6y
+17 Thoughts on HEC Montreal MsC in Financial Engineering? 4 6y
+18 Trading Blog - Week 4 0 6y
+18 Move timing 6 6y
+19 MSc from LSE? 12 6y
+19 MBA graduate, trading from 16 months, what next?? 10 6y
+20 Final year maths undergraduate seeking London prop position 7 6y
+20 MSc Machine Leaning vs Applied Maths 4 6y
+21 Recommend me a prop firm to apply to (SBs awarded) 3 6y
+21 Courses to Trade Physical Commodities 23 6y
+21 from m&a to the markets 6 6y
+21 London Fixed-Income Trading Entry Level Grad Scheme - Final round interviews - Japanese Bank 6 6y
+21 Going for graduate or waiting... need your advise 5 6y
+22 S&T Exit Opps 4 6y
+22 Precious Metals Trading? 13 6y
+22 For Prop Trading, Which Master's program is Better? Risk Management or Investment Management? 15 6y
+22 Morgan Stanley VS Citi 17 6y
+23 Commodity trading : Internship or Summer School ? 32 6y
+23 LSE MSc A&F for London S&T after STEM BSc 5 6y
+25 Risk Management (Quant Market Risk) to Sales? 7 6y
+26 Why is this illegal? 13 6y
+27 A Few Good Men: LIBOR Style 5 6y
+28 DB > MS a mad decision? 13 6y
+28 How Many Hours Do Traders Work? 63 6y
+28 Trading Desk 13 6y
+28 How do you handle a negative streak? 3 6y
+29 My Story So Far - Oil 16 6y
+30 Volcker Rule Vote on Deck...How Bad is This? 11 6y
+31 Updating the Citi "circle" report on S&T 8 6y
+32 (UBS london FICC summer quant) VS. (RBS HK summer volatility trading) 26 6y
+32 JPMorgan: Too Big To Exist? 13 6y
+56 Conversation with an Equities Sales Trader 6 6y
+57 Moving from trading into IT. Reasonable or stupid? 32 6y
+80 Citigroup - Trading - Summer Analyst desk preferences? 125 6y
+80 Ask Eddie: Should I Bail On My Trading Job? 13 6y
+85 Have I messed up my future? 35 6y

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