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Books: 1. Capital markets institutions and instruments. 2. Fixed income securities. 3. Handbook of fixed income securities. All three by Frank J. Fabozzi Hope this helps.

The pace will probably be very slow and you may get bored however it won't hurt having the experience on your resume.

Debt Capital Markets generally refers to the Investment Banking function on the bond side of the capital structure. The pace will be slow as compared to trading and you will probably be doing grunt work but you can learn a ton. Your group will be involved with bringing new bond issuances to...

Fortunately, Large institutional portfolio managers Give A Sh*t. By in large PM's and analysts are lemmings not the demigods they think they are. However, this inefficiency allows the astute trader to ride the wave of momentum straight to the bank.

trade555, On what do you base your information?

limitdown I agree with you completely. trade555, The basis for my question was in no way to get information for an interview or to gain proprietary information about the firms style. The basis for my question stems from the fact that I'm used to trading decent size and Shonfeld has an...

sorry trade555

trader555, Can you elaborate on the Shonfeld trading style and what type of trader they would be looking for? Thank You

I have an undergraduate degree and believe an MBA will only advance your career because of contacts. You will learn very little that pertains to trading. Gene, I agree with you to point. The flow I saw was very helpful and will be greatly missed. I wasn't a sales trader so I did trade...

The institutional trading business is customer driven. As a trader I provided liquidity and execution for these large mutual funds, pension funds and hedge funds. Along with the customer side we also trade proprietarily for the house. The plain vanilla execution business works something like...

I recently left my job as an institutional position trader at a bulge bracket firm because I hated the politics. The thing I loved about the job was trading. There is nothing better than playing this game. That is what brings me to this site. I'm not all that familiar with the day trading...