Recent content by gilltrading

Great thanks to Drambuie, showyouwang, One TorontoTrader2, sjfan, and Susukino for you guys' inputs. I've talked to couple of traders and salespeople in ibanks and most of them share the same view as mine. I've decided to take the Japanese offer. Hope everything turns out all right. Good luck...

Another consideration I've to count: Salespeople may find it easier to switch to sales trader/mkt making trader position as they spend much time discussing with mkt making taders and clients abt bid/ask price, volume, etc. Mkt making traders provide liquidity instead of making investment...

Now I've consulted with some friends, here is the situation: 1) 80% of non-Sales&Trading friends recommend Goldman sales but one FX trader friend with a 2nd tier bank recommends Japanese prop trading 2) Ppl stress the brandname of "Goldman" but I've already got Goldman-like brandname on CV...

Seek for advice from insiders urgently. I was lucky to get two offers recently: 1) Equities Research Sales with Goldman 2) Equities Proprietary Trader with a major Japanese securities firm My passion and ambition is prop trading so the japanese one is excatcly what I want to do. The...