0 Average first-year comp. at reputable prop. shops? 1 13y
0 Would you say that WSO is a reliable source of information? 6 13y
0 Is there a way? 3 13y
+18 SMB Capital vs T3 Trading Group 8 13y
0 Associate S&T 7 13y
0 Valuing stock-based compensation using which measure of volatility? 1 13y
0 Prop Trading SA @ TMG 1 13y
0 Aardvark Trading 9 13y
0 MS FICC = Sinking Ship? 6 13y
0 Taking a year out after university - how do I improve my chances of getting hired? 9 13y
0 PTJ Trader Film on Vimeo 4 13y
+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
+4 Jefferies Research Sales - Cash Equity 2 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
0 FX Interview 8 13y
+11 Flash Crash of Tuesday 1:06 P.M. 15 13y
+1 Lehman START analyst program 12 13y
0 Desk Quant and Traders 4 13y
0 BoA-ML 9 13y
+14 GS Securities Spring Internship 53 13y
0 Apple Earnings Tomorrow - Bullish or Bearish? 8 13y
0 Macro prop desks at GS 3 13y
+7 Flow Credit Trading need help 6 13y
+7 what happened to apple? 5 13y
0 Desks 2 13y
0 Liquidnet Holdings - Salary & Bonus - Sales Data 13y
0 Petroleum Refining in Nontechnical Language 2 13y
+92 Best graduate schools for sales & trading 92 13y
0 Most Effective Way to Short the S&P500 (Long only strategy) 9 13y
0 Do all Series Exams require sponsers? 3 13y
0 central bank experience vs. grad school 7 13y
0 Tower Hill Trading - Salary & Bonus - Equities Data 13y
0 Future of options market making 6 13y
+28 Currency Forwards 9 13y
0 T3 Trading Group - Salary & Bonus - Trading Data 13y
0 ETF start up costs? 1 13y
+48 Fixed income sell side trading is a dying career 27 13y
0 Best internships for Trading? PE? 2 13y
0 Why is Fixed Income Trading capital intensive? 5 13y
0 Is it looked down upon as intern to sit with desks that you weren't assigned to? 3 13y
0 How do dividends affect options' theoretical value? 10 13y
0 C and C Trading - Salary & Bonus - Emerging Markets Data 13y
0 Margin to Equity Ratio 2 13y
+24 Can someone give me a general overview of interest rate swaps? 13 13y
0 WFS 4 13y
+32 MIT MFin Program - Is it worth it? ($1/10 of a Million for the program) 16 13y
0 Gold Bubble Bursting? 4 13y
0 Best Desks at Lehman S&T 4 13y
0 Candlestick Trading Company - Salary & Bonus - Compliance Data 13y
0 GS Interest Rates Desk 8 13y
0 Comprehensive S&T Interview curriculum 4 13y
0 DRW - Salary & Bonus - Oil and Gas Data 13y
0 MS,GS, and JPM SA S&T Placement Begun? 3 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
0 License to Trade with a Hedge Fund? 5 13y
0 S&B Capital - Salary & Bonus - Trading Data 13y
0 Interview with Trading Firm 4 13y
0 Glencore Energy 6 13y
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
+32 How long are holding periods for BB traders? 25 13y
+10 Preparation for Metals trading analyst 13 13y
0 HSBC-Trading Hong Kong Assessment Centre 2 13y
0 Auriga USA LLC - Salary & Bonus - Fixed Income Data 13y
0 Gelber Group - Salary & Bonus - Trading Data 13y
0 - deleted - 4 13y
0 How often do traders change desks/product groups? 9 13y
0 Prop Trading Shop - Need some info 3 13y
0 Macquarie Group Limited ABN - Salary & Bonus - Equity Research Data 13y
+28 Good Books/Websites for Commodity Trading? 51 13y
0 EDF Trading - Salary & Bonus - Energy Data 13y
+15 certificate for being a trader 17 13y
+16 SO, Who would get hired? 17 13y
+3 commodities 8 13y
+17 Goldman vs. JP S&T 37 13y
0 Old Mission Capital - Salary & Bonus - Asian Markets Data 13y
0 Kyte Group - Salary & Bonus - Trading Data 13y
+27 Contango Futures 11 13y
0 Hennion and Walsh - Salary & Bonus - Municipal Muni Data 13y
0 Why do traders do this? 8 13y
0 Is this a FO SA position? 11 13y
+4 Geographical Arbitraging 2 13y
0 DEl 4 13y
0 Delete 5 13y
0 SEC job exit ops to trader at firm? 2 13y
0 UBS Sales & Trading Internship 1 13y
0 Citigroup Capital Markets Origination to S&T 3 13y
0 What Prop Firms to apply to 3 13y
0 How to determine size of trading book? 3 13y
0 Junior Trader - Salary & Bonus - Trading Data 13y
0 Any LSE Alumni ? 5 13y
0 Edison Mission Marketing and Trading - Salary & Bonus - Analytics Data 13y
+64 Is trading dying out? 36 13y
0 begin my career as a STOCK TRADER in an asst mngmnt firm? 7 13y
0 capital contribution at prop firms 7 13y

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