Trader Development Programs
New to the site and wanted to get some opinions.
I have been an accountant for almost three years now working in public accounting here in San Antonio, TX. After working with many energy clients I have found that energy is where I want to be. I did the degree matcher on Shell's website and found myself extremely interested in the trading field. I see that companies (Shell, BP, etc.) offer trader development programs for qualified candidates. My question is what do these companies look for in a successful candidate?
I realize that my public accounting experience is probably not the ideal experience they are looking for but it has been good quality experience nontheless. I have an accounting degree as well as an MBA and was maybe looking to get some feedback on any sort of training I could do to help my chances of being selected for a program like this.
Has anyone been through a program like this and could give some tips on being a successful energy trader? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Monty get over here.
All internal programs. Basically get a job at the company first.
Monty usually posts such "JOB JOB JOB". Are you in the Energy Trading group?
Rotational Trader Trainee Programs (Originally Posted: 06/25/2009)
Can anyone recommend a firm (prop shop, HF, IB, etc) that trades a broad spectrum of asset classes and strategies and offers a rotational training program for entry-level traders? Does this sort of setup even exist?
"Top prop shops" comes to mind
Oh yeah? Which "top prop shop" has a wide variety of asset classes and strategies.
Exactly. During my preliminary search, I found most "top prop shops" make markets in a narrow set of asset classes (i.e. equity options). The only major exception I found was FNYS, and when I spoke to them only a handful of desks were looking for assistants. Anyone know of multi-strat hedge funds or surviving bank prop groups that hire junior traders right out of college?
if you go to some of their websites, you'll see that most of them operate in a number of markets beyond equities and options - there are many that do FX, rates, fixed income derivatives, even commodities
blange, which desks were hiring at FNYS?
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