What opportunities are available for someone who has traded prop for a few years. I'd imagine the risk and the uncertainty becomes too great once someone has a wife and kids to worry about. Is prop trading like a dead end job or will it provide other opportunities to advance in the investment and trading field?
or do what most former prop traders do. sit home and pop pills to forget why they are living in a cheap apartment and living day by day because they are broke. then wonder why you did'nt get a normal job with benefits or open a business that at least had a chance in hell.
every successful trader i know is completely unemployable at any job. Take red_ink for example. Havent seen him put to use that formal education anytime recently. I suppose he is an expert at replacing his space bar, but that doesnt normally require an electronics degree LOL unsuccessful traders that have stopped trading i knew from the past seem to have adjusted to normal live quite naturally.
No way! Here's some jobs for traders I know: Male gigolo Professional dirtbiker Pervy lifeguard Professional free t-shirt collector Selling companies to Ebay the list goes on... As you can see there's a whole world out there of easy, fun, high paying jobs!
Or maybe a comedy writer for a late night comedy show. Ya know, the Top Ten List for Letterman or somethin like dat.