+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
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+7 Flow Credit Trading need help 6 13y
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+92 Best graduate schools for sales & trading 92 13y
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+48 Fixed income sell side trading is a dying career 27 13y
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+24 Can someone give me a general overview of interest rate swaps? 13 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
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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
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
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+64 Is trading dying out? 36 13y
0 begin my career as a STOCK TRADER in an asst mngmnt firm? 7 13y
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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 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
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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
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
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0 Meeting with director of bond trading 0 13y
+19 Cross Currency Hedging 9 13y
0 Matching Orders Algorithm 1 13y
+20 Deutsche Bank star trader Christian Bittar 11 13y
+34 Shorting the S&P from 1460 28 13y
0 SA Decision: MS S&T v. DB S&T v. CS FIC 8 13y
0 7 Dirt Cheap 5 Stars Rated Stocks by S&P 7 13y
0 Chinese Commodity Trading 3 13y
0 S&T summer help 11 13y
0 Verizon 7 13y
0 Help me, I'm a reet! 9 13y
0 Percentile for getting an interview 3 13y
0 Literature on govie bond pricing 0 13y
0 Econ/Finance VS Finance/Accounting? 6 13y
0 T3 Trading COO Goes Off the Rails 8 13y
0 AAA Corps and the Flow of Risk-Off Trading 11 13y
0 New S&P Highs this year 2 13y
0 Trading of asset backed securities and exotic options 4 13y
0 The Push to Equities: Smart or Premature 4 13y
0 Easier for girl to get into sales and trading? 11 13y
+8 Is the Wall Street Oasis Conference a good venue for aspiring traders? 3 13y
0 Questions for Head of Global Currency Strategy 7 13y
0 Trading through an ENTITY vs. setting up an INDIVIDUAL account on Interactive Brokers!? 0 13y
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