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0 do traders like their jobs? 3 19y
0 What is the most common major(s) for traders? 5 19y
0 What's a 'natural buyer'? 2 19y
0 NASD Licenses? Like Series 7? 2 19y
0 Emerging Markets Ratings 7 19y
0 Switch: rating agency quant team to S&T 0 19y
0 Derivatives applications support 3 19y
0 What's better? Starting a career in S&T in Bull Market or Bear Market 14 19y
0 so I've been properly predicting (a lot of) stocks lately... 22 19y
0 Sophomore Summer Dilema 5 19y
0 S&T Hiring during downtrend 4 19y
0 Structured Derivatives 0 19y
0 to math or not to math 5 19y
0 Average GPA from S/T 5 19y
0 advise me, for I need direction 12 19y
0 How to advance fast? 5 19y
0 Help, very important 4 19y
0 Which traders are the ones that get the $50 million bonuses? 10 19y
0 I think I'm done here fellas 17 19y
0 S&T After College 4 19y
+7 Sales and Trading to DCM 15 19y
0 to be a trader 2 19y
0 what stocks do you like 5 19y
0 Do traders get into business school? 26 19y
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0 Free traders' spreadsheet? 0 19y
0 Skins 6 19y
0 Prop Desk Compensation 5 19y
0 Visiting Goldman S&T tomorrow. Need questions. 12 19y
0 Just another friday on the floor 18 19y
0 Deutsche Bank Prop Desks 10 19y
+13 What exactly does the trader do ? 26 19y
0 Do a lot of prop desks make a yard? 7 19y
0 Sales and Trading position 10 19y
0 Here's a interesting Dilema for you.... 7 19y
+15 Average Career Length of a Trader... 16 19y
+16 the "it" factor for traders 10 19y
0 Best degree for S/T? 4 19y
0 Sales - Quantative Desks/Firms 3 19y
0 Index Indices 14 19y
+10 Trader at Fannie Mae. Prestigious? 14 19y
0 The Trading Athlete 1 19y
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0 Group 1 10 19y
0 thoughts on possible desks? 5 19y
0 Structured finance to Trading 4 19y
0 From Fixed Income Research to Sales/Trading? 2 19y
0 McDonald's and the weak dollar 8 19y
0 How to respond to an HR email... 8 19y
0 Options vs Futures/Forwards 4 19y
0 Trader's Assistant vs. Middle Office 1 19y
0 series 7, 63 or others for summers? 3 19y
0 Best BB as far as training goes... 10 19y
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0 Jump to Hedge Fund 1 19y
0 Dresscode on the Trading Floor 25 19y
0 Help, what to do?! 13 19y
0 Goldman and Merrill Almost Junk 7 19y
0 Good P&L numbers 5 19y
0 6-1 interview 3 19y
+6 Wild West of Desks 5 19y
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0 College senior interested in trading 4 19y
0 trading enviroment+$$ 5 19y
+10 Enrty-level BB Proprietary Trading 16 19y
0 New Products? 4 19y
0 Structured EM trading 4 19y
0 Need some advice for interview, etc. 2 19y
+24 A few good men 10 19y
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0 S&T for Energy Rankings 12 19y
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0 which is brockerage is best for beginners 11 19y
+9 S&T Analysts and Their Contracts 10 19y
0 Totally Shut Out of 1st Round Interviews 6 19y
0 Rejected From Lehman Summer START Pre-Interview 5 19y
0 GS Equities 3 19y
0 Lehman's Energy Group 9 19y
0 Move to trading from quant 1 19y
0 List of good trading/structuring internship programs? 7 19y
+22 Master's Program in Quantitative Finance 24 19y
0 lehman brothers s&T- best desk 13 19y
0 Daily trading volume of Equities, Fixed Income, Forex 6 19y
0 Your take on stock prices 10 19y
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0 a few newb questions 2 19y
0 52 week % vs YTD % 3 19y
0 SUSQ versus CITI 1 19y
0 Importance of Firm 1 19y
0 What is most exciting about it? 5 19y
0 Derivative Marketer ? 10 19y
0 Fixed Income vs. Currencies vs. Commodities at GS FICC 1 19y
+19 Do many move from IB to trading? 58 19y
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