+26 How to climb the ladder or have job security as a trader? 6 3y
0 delete 2 3y
+11 Is an MFE still worth it if I could land an FO quant job at BB after undergrad? 2 3y
+6 Average delete 1 3y
+53 Prop Trading (MM) v.s. BB Sales and Trading 22 3y
+3 Delete this 3 3y
+18 Distressed Trading Desk @ GS 20 3y
+78 Are Traders really bigger ballers than Sales? 56 3y
+4 Changing offices (Equity S&T) 5 3y
+11 How to develop "second-level thinking" 3 3y
+4 SA BB Commute Time 5 3y
+6 Morgan Stanley: 2023 Institutional Securities Quantitative Summer Program (New York) 6 4y
+20 Prop trader vs. BB Trader 10 4y
0 Convertible Bond Trading at BB 1 4y
+6 Rotation Desks 1 4y
+6 What trading style appeals to prop shops the most, (Intraday, Swing, Momentum, Artbitrage etc) 1 4y
0 RBC S&T NYC vs Raymond James REIB - Tampa/St.Pete 1 4y
+4 CS vs. Citi 6 4y
+3 Chicago FICC S&T salaries? 1 4y
+161 Correlation between top degrees and a career in commodities 55 4y
+2 S&T Career 2 4y
+3 2022 SA Offer in Jeapordy. Please Help! 12 4y
+6 Resources for Structuring / Structured Products 1 4y
+8 German graduate impossible to work in NYC? 3 4y
+4 Prop power vs bank? 5 4y
+3 SS trading exit ops outside NYC? 4 4y
+3 HK GS S&T SA 1 4y
+10 SA S&T Hours 7 4y
+3 S&T SA Overtime? 11 4y
+11 Do any boutique banks have S&T departments? 4 4y
+1 MS vs. Barclays vs. Citi vs. BAML vs. Deutsche S&T (All NYC) 9 4y
+11 NY S&T --> Chicago IB 4 4y
+3 Seriously though? 1 4y
+6 Lateral NYC --> Midwest? 1 4y
+19 Best path to move to NYC, LDN from Tokyo 5 4y
+3 Citi Drug Test 1 4y
+6 Markets VP Base Salary 1 4y
+14 Help, Am I Being Lowballed? 9 4y
+5 NYC BB: where to live my first year? 11 4y
+5 Flow Traders (MM) 7 4y
+6 Is NYU math good enough to get quant trading / dev jobs right out of Undergrad? 2 4y
0 Jane Street Trading Interview Process 6 4y
+3 Yellen Notes 1 4y
+1 18yr patterns trader - we are going into a stressful time want to know if there are any newbs that need help reading charts 3 4y
0 Barclays London S&T A1 base bump 0 4y
+17 $85k base pay S&T - still worth it? 15 4y
+6 S&T Cash Equity floor dead end? 1 4y
+11 Power prop trading vs jumping to a NYbased fund/firm 8 4y
0 Morgan Stanley Early Insights Program 2022 1 4y
+7 Best Coding languages to learn to move from Sales to Trading? 8 4y
+18 Target schools for Prop firms 14 4y
+9 Careers in trading; how to pivot into it from AM? 1 4y
+23 Execution Trader Books 6 4y
0 T. Rowe Price - ETF Product Manager 2 4y
+9 Commercial Banking Intern to S&T Analyst? 1 4y
+6 EY Complex Security Summer Intern vs BAML S&T Rate Option Summer Associate 0 4y
+18 Econ vs Finance - Fixed Income Trading/AM/IB 8 4y
0 deletet 1 4y
0 Delete 2 4y
+3 Deleted 1 4y
+4 Fixed Income Sales Exit Opps 7 4y
+7 Lateral from RBC/WF/DB to GS/MS 11 4y
0 Starting a Career in Trading -> What are some educational resources to look into? 3 4y
+3 MM Internal Mobility 1 4y
0 GS S&T Internship - what to expect 1 4y
0 FX Strategist Comp 1 4y
+9 Power Trading Internship/Entry-level roles 2 4y
+9 Mention work experience from closed hedge fund? 1 4y
+9 Delete 2 4y
+1 Structuring 1 4y
+131 I'm Trying to get into Prop-Trading From a Non-Target School 44 4y
0 Forex trading in PA 1 4y
+7 Is it worth getting a job in Options trading so I can learn for my PA? 3 4y
+9 At a Crossroads 1 4y
0 S&T: Citi vs Bank of America 3 4y
+3 NatWest Markets? 4 4y
+13 Leaving the Sell-Side to Join a Prop Firm <6 months after starting? 3 4y
+4 BMO S&T pay bump? 6 4y
0 Compensation for institutional sales 1 4y
+20 Career Paths in Ags 4 4y
+7 Fan of Jennifer Fan - 29 yo $650 MM HF PM 16 4y
+17 Can I get into Sales & Trading? 10 4y
0 MS S&T placement vs HSBC S&T SA 5 4y
0 JPM S&T or BAML Global Risk Quant Analytics 2 4y
0 Paulson Investment Co? 6 4y
+59 Am I a shitty analyst or just a snowflake? 14 4y
+4 Bank resource management at Morgan Stanley- phone interview 4 4y
+5 Glencore Commercial Graduate Program 5 4y
+18 SIG Salaries 18 4y
+24 Getting into commodities trading seat 15 4y
+9 HELP! THOUGHTS/INFO ON EMIGRANT BANK ? 1 4y
+61 People in S&T 24 4y
+27 Am I crazy wanting to go from FinTech --> Trading? 19 4y
+13 What commodities/oil trading firms are in NYC? 6 4y
+6 WF S&T NYC….whats it like?? 4 4y
+3 Citi S&T vs. BAML S&T vs. UBS Quant Trading 1 4y
+1 JPM CIB Markets-Trading Superday 4 4y
+6 Credit suissie and JP Morgan quant 1 4y
+6 Nomura 2022 Global Markets Summer Analyst NYC 7 4y
+3 Baird Institutional Sales 1 4y

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