+48 Advice for a 21-year-old entering BB S&T? 13 6y
+50 Scheduling job: Wondering where to take my career from here. 21 6y
+60 Commodities Trading - Tons of post that S&T is downsizing 26 6y
+64 A Banking Primer 20 6y
+66 Energy Hedging 101: The Frac Spread 11 6y
+71 Good Commodity Trading Firms? 33 6y
+101 Energy Trading 101: The Crack Spread 25 6y
0 Prop trading - Sophmore at community college in Cali 3 6y
0 A Trade for Your PA 0 6y
0 CalPERS Loses $81 Billion 0 6y
0 Prop Firms in San Francisco Bay Area 4 6y
0 Trading Opportunities in San Fran/Bay Area 7 6y
0 News Arbitrage 4 6y
0 Capital IQ for West Coast S&T 10 6y
0 Uranium in play for 2011? 3 6y
0 US inflation expectation and fiscal condition 7 6y
0 ACM Prop 0 6y
0 Evolution Capital Trading? 0 6y
0 Advice Please - Junior/Senior mechanical engineering student 3 6y
0 How to join a proprietary trading firm as a customer? 9 6y
0 Long time programmer in silicon valley, figuring out options in trading. Please help. 5 6y
0 Spring S&T Internships in LA? 4 6y
0 Platts/Bentek for starting energy career 6 6y
0 GS Equities S&T San Francisco? 4 6y
0 Path to get into Phys Trading through J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities? 7 6y
+3 Bloomberg terminal access SF Bay Area 1 6y
+3 Hours 1 6y
+6 Systematic Trading firm in San Francisco or Bay Area? 5 6y
+9 How to get exposure to California default in up coming months? 6 6y
+14 Is this bad form in the office? 19 6y
+16 Is it Becoming Harder to Make Money in Algo Trading? 9 6y
+17 Wannabe Physical Trader Deciding Between Two Internships 8 6y
+18 Banking to Inst. Sales 3 6y
+18 Traders4ACause 2019 conference - worth going? 1 6y
+19 My investment disaster: First Bank of Delaware 3 6y
+20 Trading Vs Engineering 10 6y
+20 Help/advice needed - Top 25 west coast university 9 6y
+20 Biggest bankruptcies in American history, who's next? 5 6y
+24 Goldman Sachs Institutional Sales Analyst Interview Help 7 6y
+25 What ponds are you fishing in? 4 6y
+34 What's Going on with this Crazy Market?! 18 6y
+47 Post covid world: How many total s&t jobs globally? growing or shrinking going fwd? 8 6y
+48 The Most Unbelievable True Story: From Warehouse Associate in January to FO S&T in March. Buckle In.... 3 6y
+73 Trump's Trade War (Are consumers and investors SCREWED?) 48 6y
+78 What is the street's general opinion of Jim Cramer? 46 6y
0 JPM and Citi application status 5 6y
0 Advice about first job 9 6y
0 HELP PLEASE!! received a job offer 8 6y
0 Anyone heard of Gennady Gertsman? 0 6y
0 transition from proprietaary market maker to bank trading? 2 6y
0 Monty09 in Chicago - Happy Hour 4 6y
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0 SIG Chicago 0 6y
0 Getting on Bus to Chicago..Any help/advice appreciated 3 6y
0 Nico Holdings - Anyone know anything about them? 0 6y
0 How to begin the career as a college student 1 6y
0 Black Edge Capital 2 6y
0 Resume review for trading internships 6 6y
0 How hard is it to get a job at the NY or Chicago Merc 3 6y
0 IMC Chicago - Info about this place or interview process? 7 6y
0 CRB Commodity Yearbook 3 6y
0 DePaul vs. IIT vs. Loyola in MS CS for prop trading, etc. 9 6y
0 Am I Getting f***ed? 6 6y
0 Rant: Intel-gathering disguised as "Job" interview 5 6y
0 Financial Analyst ON line quiz 5 6y
+16 Providence Fires 1,926 Teachers, Officially Bankrupt 9 6y
+16 Weird Offer Dilemma: Risk Mgmt vs. Prop Trading 12 6y
+16 Prop trader to PM-track role at asset manager 7 6y
+16 Commodity Hedging Firm Abroad, Interview Prep 2 6y
+16 Summer Technology Analyst at BB > Finance 2 6y
+17 What is "life" like at a normal HFT firm? 6 6y
+20 Which companies in Chicago are siloed, and which are collaborative? 5 6y
+21 Dick Durbin Does a Little Front-Running 7 6y
+21 Physical Traders Interview 9 6y
+21 Physical Trading vs. Mkt Making 3 6y
+22 Summer internship: BB S&T vs prop shop! 7 6y
+22 HFT Masters 22 6y
+22 MFE to Trading? Input Appreciated 7 6y
+22 Chicago Prop Trading Internship 7 6y
+23 What do oil traders make? A lawsuit against BP sheds some light... 2 6y
+24 Experienced options prop trader looking for a company to back me. 17 6y
+25 ETFs caused May 06 Flash Crash? 17 6y
+26 Which Prop Trading Firms Have the Highest Salaries? 22 6y
+28 Best Futures Markets for 2010 14 6y
+28 Be werry werry quite, I'm hunting traders. 12 6y
+28 Is trading fun? 16 6y
+28 What to Watch Out For Regarding Trading Job Offer From Small Prop Shop? 13 6y
+31 Computer Science Major - Great (?) School, Crappy GPA 22 6y
+31 Junior Canadian STIR/FX trader -> Offer from Chicago Corp? 2 6y
+31 Prestigious Prop Shop Exit Ops 7 6y
+37 BP IST Program 35 6y
+38 Allston Trading cuts employees amid low volatility 17 6y
+39 HTG Capital Partners 35 6y
+39 Indiana U (not Kelley yet) or TCU for S&T? 17 6y
+44 What to expect from a prop trading job? 21 6y
+48 Trading from UIUC 28 6y
+46 Bonus structure at small hedge fund (am I being played?) 37 6y
+54 ALL YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT PROP TRADING! 58 6y
+59 Lower GPA...Trading Still Possible? 40 6y
+72 Job Security at Prop Trading (Chicago Based) 42 6y

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