+18 Is Trading Safe as a Career Choice 15 14y
+29 Difference between Investment Management and Trading 13 14y
+19 Need advice on Software Dev. Interview 6 14y
0 How Do You Respond to the "Traders Just Move Money Around" Argument? 26 14y
+26 Why do people not want to trade equities? 38 14y
0 Help Choosing Group Within Securitized Products / Mortgage Trading 0 14y
+10 S&T: If you're pigeonholed-- how to move? 2 14y
0 Do All BB's Give S&T Stub Bonus? 8 14y
0 Credit Suisse Fixed Income Desks 26 14y
0 GS S&T (investments) superday questions 2 14y
0 Future of Equity Structured Products 0 14y
0 Too late to apply for Barcap HK? 9 14y
0 MS and MS Smith Barney? 1 14y
0 Would it be stupid to... 7 14y
+1 Steel Scrap Prices 2 14y
0 Soc-Gen Structured Products 10 14y
+14 Ending Prop Trading: Offers Rescinded? 15 14y
0 GS Securities Investing - SA 11 14y
0 How old were you when you knew you wanted to be a trader? 30 14y
0 Shell Trading Development Program Interview 2 14y
0 College Freshman looking to learn about Trading 7 14y
0 Education Level 3 14y
0 How much annual bonus and its growth can a programmer expect in trading industry 1 14y
0 Interview Request - Time Sensitive 1 14y
0 Fall Predictions 49 14y
0 Input from Energy Traders: TransCanada 8 14y
0 are yields going to rise any time soon? 8 14y
+46 The Greeks 25 14y
0 Event based trading question 2 14y
+31 Recommended reading list? 35 14y
0 Morgan Stanley, Barclays Capital or Citi 17 14y
+19 Deutsche Bank Global Markets Group 1st Round Interview 20 14y
0 BarCap Superday 0 14y
+20 MBA or no MBA? 5 14y
0 Interview question: Where do you see yourself in 5, 10, 15 years? 4 14y
+18 Is it too late to get into trading 14 14y
0 5 and 10 year plan 2 14y
0 Millionaire in the Making 4 14y
0 Percent Profit Question 3 14y
+13 When is the deadline for most S&T summer internships? 6 14y
0 GS SA 1st Round S&T Phone Interview 13 14y
0 prospective trading career 1 14y
0 Let the internship season begin.... 3 14y
+4 I do not work for WF 5 14y
0 Short Term Capital Gains !TAX! Question 1 14y
0 Institutional Sales Pay Structures 2 14y
+19 Sales at Investment Banks??? 25 14y
0 kids of clients 9 14y
0 Difference between Heston and Vanna-Volga Models... 3 14y
+16 noob question about type of stocks 3 14y
0 S&P Trading 0 14y
+3 Barcap competency question 6 14y
0 Research to Trading... 1 14y
0 Changing preference from Ap. in Interview 2 14y
0 Interesting Dilemma want some advice 9 14y
0 SA vs FT experience required 3 14y
+24 What are my chances as a trader?.... 23 14y
0 HSBC Global Markets SA 2 14y
0 Please critique this trade idea 11 14y
0 Couple of Questions About Trading 7 14y
+4 Rates Sales/Trading 2 14y
0 ConocoPhillips Trading Intern Class size 4 14y
0 Do traders all start in research? 3 14y
0 All in compensation at top tier prop shop 4 14y
0 rates, vol, options 1 14y
0 How important is it that you like your desk? 6 14y
+12 What to study ? 2 14y
+11 Recent MIT grad--any chance to get trading role off cycle? 8 14y
0 S & T summer internships deadline 0 14y
0 Conoco Phillips Trading FT 20 14y
0 Making the most of the SA experience 7 14y
0 Currency Trading Positions BBs/Prop Firms 3 14y
+12 MS Commercial Mortgage Lending Loan Trading Analyst 2 14y
0 Energy firms signing bonuses? 4 14y
0 Trading on Analyst Reccomendations 7 14y
0 BAML S&T Analyst 37 14y
0 1st Year Analyst Compensation across the Street 16 14y
+7 Galleon founder charged with insider trading 13 14y
0 Reasons for a weak U.S. dollar 64 14y
0 No Work Experience (Trading) 4 14y
0 Is trading a dead end job??? PhD or no? 6 14y
0 "Sales" in Energy Trading 2 14y
+28 Passion for the Markets 24 14y
0 How hard is it to switch asset class in the career? 14 14y
+1 Nomura FX sales analyst position 4 14y
+3 Futures and options question 3 14y
0 Trading Salaries 8 14y
0 Gold Flirts with $1,000/oz. 11 14y
0 IB's trading ranking? 24 14y
0 Trading Straight Out of College 8 14y
0 How Does Whole Process Work? 8 14y
0 Daily Crude Oil Price Table YTD 5 14y
0 AFL-CIO Attacks Freq Traders 9 14y
0 Equity Derivatives in GCM 1 14y
0 Front-End Interest Rates Contract 3 14y
0 Direct go to hedgefund or start career at IB prop trading position? 5 14y
+18 Would you work at a market maker for illiquid markets? 15 14y
0 Job Promotions in S&T 0 14y
0 Equity (structured) volatility trading? 0 14y
0 O/T Taking on-line classes 2 14y

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  • JPMorgan Chase 10 98.8%
  • Lazard Freres 05 98.3%
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