0 First jobs in trading? Please advise. 4 18y
0 Commodities and Credit: Sales or Trading 1 18y
+9 Do you still get a bonus if you dont make Associate? 7 18y
0 Equity Securities Lending Division at MS 0 18y
0 Interest Rate sales desk 4 18y
0 two quetions from interview for trader, want to see your opions 52 18y
0 Mathematical models... 3 18y
0 Something to think about.... 5 18y
0 WM Fixed Income Trading/Sales 0 18y
0 Deutsche 2 18y
0 Trading Desks in L.A. 8 18y
0 can grad students go through undergrad recruiting? 5 18y
0 Is a second year global markets analyst with Merrill Lynch possible? 0 18y
+8 Goldman Moving Some S&Ters To Operations 24 18y
0 Trade Commission regulation? 17 18y
0 Back book 23 18y
0 Fixed-Income Traders: What do you think about the HJM model? 10 18y
0 Bernanke 6 18y
0 Quantitative based 2 18y
0 Trade Process 1 18y
0 DRW 5 18y
0 G.X. Clarke & Company, Susquehanna International Group 2 18y
0 buy side execution trader 2 18y
0 Reuters: 90% less trading jobs by 2015 2 18y
0 Trading Currenciesssss!!! 0 18y
0 Analyst vs non Analyst bonus pool 1 18y
0 Is Flow Trading Becoming Obsolete 1 18y
0 newb question about prop trading 6 18y
0 3-MO T Bill 2 18y
0 Question on a course 15 18y
0 Help me understand the upside potential in Box Spread 2 18y
0 HVOL Arb Question 4 18y
0 Goldman Firmwide 5 18y
0 Final Semester Grades 12 18y
0 Programming Literature Reccomendations 2 18y
0 How to prepare with distressed debt trading & research? 0 18y
0 Munis 4 18y
0 How will the current market crisis affect FT recruiting? 7 18y
0 top 30 under 30 3 18y
0 Straddles 14 18y
0 Taped Phones 6 18y
0 Non-Bank trading 3 18y
0 Trillium, DE Shaw, Chimera, etc 3 18y
+33 Fixed Income vs. Equities 51 18y
0 6 Month Research Stint? 1 18y
0 Getting in through fall recruiting 4 18y
0 Proprietary Traders 7 18y
0 Investing simulation competition 2 18y
0 Remata Trading 6 18y
0 z-spread 1 18y
0 Important advice for current / future SAs 4 18y
0 What BB would you trade at? 6 18y
0 Quant Payscale 0 18y
0 Exactly what does an entry-level analyst trader do at a BB... 8 18y
0 Is trading a harder or easier field to break into than ibanking? 10 18y
0 Choosing a prop shop 9 18y
0 Problems with S&T 14 18y
0 Where should I start... 11 18y
0 A Career Crossroads 3 18y
0 Suggestion and advice for courses 12 18y
0 Need advice - Portfolio Sales vs Structured Volatility Sales 12 18y
0 Prop vs. Sell-side analyst position 4 18y
0 Sales, Sales-Trading, and Trading 1 18y
0 Exotic Credit 17 18y
0 Leverage Loan Trading Metrics 1 18y
+1 Difference between DCM and Fixed Income 1 18y
0 Lehman Brothers- Cash Equity Trading vs Credit Trading 21 18y
0 Rankings, which ones really matter? 4 18y
0 Hottest Desks 8 18y
0 Locations for traders to live 6 18y
0 Futures and ticks 3 18y
0 2 years interning 1 left 1 18y
0 Turnover in S/T 1 18y
0 equity cash trading 15 18y
0 Lowered Expectations 0 18y
0 UBS Trading 4 18y
0 ADRs and GDRs 11 18y
0 Trading simualtion 8 18y
0 Can you explain to me the non-quant role in trading, esp if I have my MSc in Fin (not MFE)? 6 18y
0 7 digit bonuses 8 18y
0 Structuring to Flow 4 18y
0 What does the analyst do? 5 18y
0 Readings 10 18y
+7 The difference between buy-side and sell-side. 21 18y
0 How much capital do you get? 15 18y
0 S&T Bonuses 33 18y
0 gagnon securities? 2 18y
0 BS Collateral Sale 10 18y
0 some "target" clarrification 15 18y
0 S versus T 6 18y
0 research reports 7 18y
0 Any B&S guys here? 6 18y
0 So, how long will this down cycle be? 0 18y
0 What's the etiquette with "We'll get back to you within 24 hours with a decision", then they don't. 4 18y
0 Which desks are the most quantitative? 3 18y
0 Need Series 65 for S&T? 3 18y
0 BP's Supply and trading Graduate Program? 0 18y
0 Sales Question 13 18y
0 FXCM 4 18y
0 Finance w/ concentration in math. 4 18y

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