The link below will give you a decent amount of knowledge on the entirety of the subject. Obv, there are a good amount of idiots on the site that...
Yea, the same is true at the firm I work. It sounds like you and me could work for the same firm. We have fired around 80% of our traders in the...
The stress comes from the numerous suckouts that can come at once, the prolonged downswings which could last a month or 2, and the intensity of...
Yea, true. You can always have the black swan happen in trading and not in poker. That's the one thing that I don't like about trading. My job...
Honestly I think the opposite is true with maybe a dozen occasions the other way around. I played 9-12 tables at once of midstakes nl 6 max games...
I was a pro poker player for 5 years and now have been a trader for the past 2 and trading is a hell of a lot less stressful on a day to day...
I meant to say trading has less variance and less stressful.
I created this thread a while back and maybe you could find some useful stuff in there. I did make the switch and work for a large prop...
Wow, you're being pretty ignorant. I never got that feeling when I was interviewing at top prop trading/market making firms. Also just to get an...
Aardvark is a subsidiary of TMG so it's really not a small firm. I know people at TMG that got their offer the day of their 2nd interview. To my...
They are really picky. They see about 500 applicants per each hiring period and maybe hire 2-3. I've seen alot of the resumes that work at...
I know some people on here would like to find out where I'm at now. I did get an offer from a top MM/prop trading firm and accepted it. I have...
They're hiring more people now than ever. 5 people each month for the next few months. Heard it straight from the source.
What??? I did go to I.U. and managed to get alot of interviews with top tier trading firms (based on experience and qualifications), and they...
For a serious answer, you do need a good math background in most cases if you're applying to top trading firms i.e. DRW, Jane Street Capital,...
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