what WE would be useful for learning to me?
If I was to send in a CV and letter to get informal work placements (as in not structired internships) hoping to last around 3 months to the following places, 1)Is there a good chance if I show interest, and 2) How valuable would this be in terms of learning about trading/HFs/financial markets in general? Ultimately I want to trade, but I think any experience where I can learn about the markets could be interesting,
-try and work in research? (how relevant is this?)
-structuring? Doubt Im' nearly mathematical enough yet (standard is 1st year college economics major)
-risk management?
-offering to spend time doing anything on an IB's trading floor (I would guess that this would not be a great learning ground due to regulatory reasons not allowing me to do much)?
-offering to spend time at some random HFs (obviously I would have no chance at a big one)?
-what are these prop trading firms/arcades? would they offer any training to someone who's only going to be there for a few months (and maybe join after college)? Btw I'm in the UK, not the US - don't know if that makes a difference here...
I'm keen to do something that would really help me learn about this from gaining experience, rather than through reading (of which I have done a good bit), instead of getting something that will be useless but look good on a CV.
So thanks a lot for any advice.
no suggestions, people?
why would they hire u for 3-4 months. why would the smaller shops or HFs want u to see their strategy and then leave. people dont just hand out jobs and training w/o something in return - like the expectation ur working FT...
No, fair enough, I wasn't expecting HFs. But what about the other things I mentioned. I'm sure firms do this quite often...
And I'm not expecting training without something in return - I may well end up somewhere full time. I'm just saying, is it possible to convince them of that when it is not an official internship?
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