+21 Ernest P. Chan's "Quantitative Trading" - Best book for starter ? 16 13y
0 Application of Interest Rates in Algo Trading 2 13y
0 Where do all the cowboys go 1 13y
0 Google Integrates Wallet Into Gmail 7 13y
+18 CFDs vs Vanilla trading account for a rookie 6 13y
0 Better place to start? 4 13y
0 Average Prop Desk Fees 1 13y
+16 write a letter to yourself 10 years ago. what would it say? 12 13y
0 How a broker spent $520m in a drunken stupor 13 13y
0 FT Recruiting after SA Internship 2 13y
0 Associate S&T 7 13y
0 Valuing stock-based compensation using which measure of volatility? 1 13y
0 Aardvark Trading 9 13y
0 MS FICC = Sinking Ship? 6 13y
0 Taking a year out after university - how do I improve my chances of getting hired? 9 13y
0 PTJ Trader Film on Vimeo 4 13y
+27 Experienced quants: what kind of Math/Comp Sci/Stats/Econ do you actually use in quant trading and finance? 9 13y
0 How much initially do I need to make decent money trading forex? 8 13y
0 Trader career path, salary and exit opps, asked before but need help! 6 13y
+16 I say farewell to wso... good luck everyone 22 13y
0 FX Interview 8 13y
0 Desk Quant and Traders 4 13y
0 Macro prop desks at GS 3 13y
+7 Flow Credit Trading need help 6 13y
0 Petroleum Refining in Nontechnical Language 2 13y
+92 Best graduate schools for sales & trading 92 13y
0 central bank experience vs. grad school 7 13y
0 Future of options market making 6 13y
0 ETF start up costs? 1 13y
+48 Fixed income sell side trading is a dying career 27 13y
0 Best internships for Trading? PE? 2 13y
0 Is it looked down upon as intern to sit with desks that you weren't assigned to? 3 13y
0 Margin to Equity Ratio 2 13y
+24 Can someone give me a general overview of interest rate swaps? 13 13y
+32 MIT MFin Program - Is it worth it? ($1/10 of a Million for the program) 16 13y
0 Gold Bubble Bursting? 4 13y
0 GS Interest Rates Desk 8 13y
+13 Big Oil trading VS Physcial Commodities Shop 6 13y
+33 Do you have to be morally bankrupt to be a good Structurer 20 13y
0 Interview with Trading Firm 4 13y
0 Glencore Energy 6 13y
0 Big 4 advisory to trading 4 13y
+24 Invest using leverage 20 13y
+24 How to break in to S&T from this point 19 13y
0 BB's that doing FT Analyst recruiting for FICC? 4 13y
+10 Preparation for Metals trading analyst 13 13y
0 HSBC-Trading Hong Kong Assessment Centre 2 13y
0 How often do traders change desks/product groups? 9 13y
+15 certificate for being a trader 17 13y
+17 Goldman vs. JP S&T 37 13y
+27 Contango Futures 11 13y
0 Why do traders do this? 8 13y
0 Citigroup Capital Markets Origination to S&T 3 13y
0 What Prop Firms to apply to 3 13y
0 How to determine size of trading book? 3 13y
+64 Is trading dying out? 36 13y
0 begin my career as a STOCK TRADER in an asst mngmnt firm? 7 13y
0 capital contribution at prop firms 7 13y
0 Top Sellers of Fertilizer in the U.S. 4 13y
0 Areas of prop trading 2 13y
0 BB Prime Brokerage - Client Services 2 13y
0 Which role within HF Internship the best for FI S&T FT? 14 13y
0 Case Study within S&T 0 13y
+37 Questions about Trading 19 13y
+16 Best non-quant, non-algo shops to work for? 10 13y
0 Closest thing to prop at BB? 1 13y
0 Questions about CFA 8 13y
0 graduate position for experienced people 1 13y
0 Help with finding a thesis 12 13y
0 Attention Smart People! 5 13y
0 Prop shops as a programmer 10 13y
0 Prop-shop to BB S&T or HF? 17 13y
0 AAMRQ 1 13y
+10 Time to go Bear? 4 13y
+10 Three times same IB in the CV -> Good or bad? 3 13y
0 Augsburg Energy 16 13y
0 Currency vs. Rates Yo! 2 13y
0 Scotiabank S&T Interview 1 13y
0 How much Math/Stat/CS do you need to know? 18 13y
0 Fixed income analytics 4 13y
0 Series 56, how long should you study, benefits down road? 6 13y
0 Creating a Value at Risk (VaR) Model for futures? 1 13y
0 HELPPP 3 13y
0 Using Options to Establish a Toehold Position 3 13y
0 Internship worth losing connections? 1 13y
0 Can someone please point me in the right damn direction!? 6 13y
0 Summer Internships in Trading for College Freshman? 15 13y
0 Marex Spectron Professional Trader Development Program? Anyone heard of it? 1 13y
+33 Illiquid Options 18 13y
+4 Intern 7 13y
0 All's Fair in Love and Trading 10 13y
+9 DC Energy Trading 25 13y
0 Barclays S and T 2 13y
0 Im new to stock trading and have a few questions for experienced traders 0 13y
+7 In short how do you price a swap? 5 13y
0 Tesla vs. NYT 14 13y
0 Best Fixed Income Trading firms 2 13y
0 Meeting with director of bond trading 0 13y
+19 Cross Currency Hedging 9 13y
0 Matching Orders Algorithm 1 13y

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