+74 $3.6mm Bonus wasn't enough at 30 years old 62 12y
+10 Trading hierarchy 5 12y
0 strategy difference between chop shops and proprietary trading firms? 4 12y
+12 Any option traders working at hedge funds or prop shops?? 6 12y
0 Legit, retail track record, then what 3 12y
0 Institutional Sales Comp 2 12y
+14 Can anyone settle ONCE AND FOR ALL what TRADERS in INVESTMENT BANKS do? 16 12y
+11 Insider Trading S&T vs IBD at BB 4 12y
+34 How do you know you'll be 'good' at trading? 31 12y
0 How to find a group of like-minded traders? 4 12y
0 Margin Interview Question 1 12y
0 Philadelphia Trader's Happy Hour this Wed (1/29) ...prop trading office 0 12y
0 Anyone ever heard of Signal Technologies ("SigTec")? 3 12y
+5 Power or Soft Commodities? 6 12y
0 S&T: Tried and true desk or 'start up' desk? 3 12y
0 Laptop Recommendations for MFE 4 12y
0 Imperial Capital Research 1 12y
+4 Can you make $10m+ trading at a BB? 15 12y
0 Power/Gas Scheduling Analyst 7 12y
+17 Natural Gas Powerhouse? Anyone want to comment on this article? 4 12y
+7 BB S&T Compensation 2 12y
0 How do I choose between CS and GS S&T offers? 8 12y
+38 Identify Weaknesses in my S&T Resume 28 12y
0 Prop Firm Offer 10 12y
+5 Non-Target with S&T Offers but questions 2 12y
+3 Barclays Capital - Market Risk 4 12y
0 Employee refferal 4 12y
0 Scheduling Interview - Prep? 0 12y
0 Technical question of the week 1 12y
0 What occurs during training week at BB SA program in S&T? 13 12y
0 Advice needed, do i stay or do i go? 0 12y
0 Do freight or shipping logistics/operations courses help? 4 12y
+38 Rate/rate derivs trading ideas and strategies 36 12y
+38 Any short-end rates traders around? 40 12y
0 WSO Stock Pick Contest #6: BAC 43 12y
0 Money Market Dealer 1 12y
0 Barclays Case Study? 0 12y
0 What do you do when your boss doesn't talk to you? 8 12y
0 Kelly criterion in the short run 2 12y
0 Interesting problem 4 12y
+11 Why was Alan Greenspan a shitty fed chairman? 4 12y
+19 Blackstone vs. PIMCO vs. Goldman Sachs 13 12y
0 Very hard problem 9 12y
+16 Major help 9 12y
0 Dilemma: Accepted MO (Market risk) offer, but want to interview for FO FT (trading) at the same firm? 7 12y
0 One very interesting question and possible approaches 3 12y
0 GS S&T 9 12y
0 M&A Analyst to Trading 3 12y
+26 Traders - would you choose a product based on liquidity? 18 12y
0 Elite boutique to S&T? 1 12y
+11 Global Macro trade Ideas 14 12y
0 Cambridge Math Tripos Part III 10 12y
0 Quant Trading job market in US in 2015 11 12y
0 Taper Tantrum 2013 11 12y
0 Odds at prop shop for non-stem degree 4 12y
0 Emailing interviewer for update 2 12y
0 Desks that have longest survivability / ability to adapt? 4 12y
0 The Volcker Rule and FX 4 12y
+44 Can anyone shed light on KCG(or former Getco)? 77 12y
0 BB Trading vs Microsoft Software Engineer Compensation Comparison 7 12y
+10 The CFTC Needs to F Off 0 12y
0 How are Traders Like Baboons? 1 12y
+38 Job shadow at bank 35 12y
0 Volcker Rule - Impact on non US banks 1 12y
0 Inspiration...Elon Musk and the Future of Humanity 0 12y
0 Insider Trading questions 1 12y
+18 Money Markets Trading - Some questions 6 12y
0 HFT And Technical Analysis 7 12y
+22 PE Internship to S&T? 8 12y
+9 Compensation--FX Traders versus FX Sales? 15 12y
0 tech, finance, careers 2 12y
0 Will Gold Miner Stock be outperform? 1 12y
0 Help me decide between these two UK unis 7 12y
0 How much can you actually make as a trader? 3 12y
0 FX Sales or FX eCommerce Sales internship? 0 12y
+32 This Market Upsets Me 21 12y
0 Question about gold 3 12y
+15 Q&A COMMODITY TRADING: Commodity Hedge Fund from Physical Commodity Trading// Exit Ops//Compensation 4 12y
0 Two interesting questions 2 12y
0 Tapering and the Markets 2 12y
+9 Do analysts in these functions get their own bloomberg terminal? 13 12y
0 S&T Interview Guide 2 12y
0 Interested in Trading? Check out TrakInvest. 0 12y
+18 One question 5 12y
+7 Energy Trading Forum? 5 12y
+49 Co-worker talking shit over bloomberg about me. 49 12y
0 Natural Gas/Oil Trading Locations 4 12y
0 Open Trading Desks - Shared space 1 12y
0 Do an SA BB internship even if full-time offer - just to improve CV? 9 12y
+25 Help with interview questions 10 12y
0 Nickeled and Dimed, litterally 0 12y
0 Based on experience as a financial analyst, would you really care about the reputation of a company you are analyzing? 2 12y
0 Trading training period leading to FT 1 12y
+53 TSLA Drops 12% in After Market Hrs after Q3 Earnings Released 41 12y
0 JP Morgan Manipulating Energy Prices...a question 9 12y
+16 HELP Needed to understand Twitter development 2 12y
0 Developing basic trading knowledge/skills (I'm a complete novice) 2 12y
+15 Help with highly quant interview questions 5 12y
0 Employment Contract Questions 5 12y
0 Portfolio Analyst (Power Commerical Structuring) vs. Short-term Power Trading Analyst 7 12y

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