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    Proprietary Trading at Investment Banks

    I have spent a year and a half just to get trial periods! Obviously I can not trade at 18 years old they wouldn't allow that but they have said within a year or so if you show you have the goods then it can be done, where I interned there was a guy of 24 who entered with a degree at 21 and in...
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    Proprietary Trading at Investment Banks

    I wouldn't agree if I can get hired by a bulge bracket firm at 18 then there is no point in me getting a degree as at the end of the ay the bottom line is dollars, if you are making the money as a prop trader at a major bank it doesn't matter what education you have, there are guys there who...
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    Proprietary Trading at Investment Banks

    Don't know who Segrue is, all I know is I was told that some useful information can be gleaned from this site and I wanted to know if anyone knew the structure of proprietary trading desks at Deutsche Bank.
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    Proprietary Trading at Investment Banks

    SOrry I thought when you said the whole organization you meant totally! I agree with you your figures sound right but at the end of the day no prop firm will say to you here is three billion dollar dealing limit, although you say most people are taking the other side of the trade as market...
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    Proprietary Trading at Investment Banks

    Thank you very much for your supporting words, problme is all the prop firms are equity trading, equities have never interested me, my thing is spot foreign exchange and commodities(precious metals and agricultural commodities only). That is why I need to be at an Ibank there are some enormous...
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    Proprietary Trading at Investment Banks

    Husky, I found where I worked nobody did marketing as it kinda sell side they did trading assistant or junior trader whichever you prefer to call it, then became market makers then prop traders or were undergradutes with a single degree who were stars and became prop traders straight away but...
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    Proprietary Trading at Investment Banks

    Trader99 I must tell you I think you are a littel misguided as to prop traders at I-Banks, I have interned in an Ibank already this summer for three weeks and got heavily involved, when you say 15-20 people prop trading throughout an organisation do you mean say Goldman worldwide...
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    Proprietary Trading at Investment Banks

    Does anyone knwo how prop desks are structured at Deutsche Bank? Are the prop traders all trading specific instruments like fx or IRD or currency options, or are some allowed to get into a bit of everything like Spot FX, Precious metals and couple of commodities maybe government bonds, how much...
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