Recent content by tallkid0666

Just posted a thread but forgot to ask if anyone knows of well-respected trader-training programs out there. I know that SUSQ and FNYS offer efficient training programs for their traders. Does anyone have any further insights to these programs as well as names of other firms that offer them?

I will be graduating next month from Vanderbilt and am looking to start a career as a trader. After extensive research and phone calls over the past 4-5 months, it seems that the advice i have gotten points toward starting out as a Trading Assistant in a respectable firm as the best way to begin...

what kind of position should i seek at a bank? do you think it would be possible to get an entry position right now without having majored in econ/finance and not having any experience? if not, what could i do to make myself appealing to these banks such that they would hire me

I am 22 years old, and will be graduating this fall from Vanderbilt University. I majored in political science but have now decided that trading is what i want to do with my life -- and i want to go after it as soon as i finish school in december. To all those already in the profession, I was...