Can a Graduate Degree from Oxford U help me get a salaried position in trading?

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Quote from vanilla2:

sorry i skimmed your post. you sounded like someone who's never made a trade. anyway, best of luck to you and your flaming ego.
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thanks. I admit that I am a beginning trader but you can't say, with validity, that I have a flaming ego.

Respectfully,
 
Quote from rolegario:

I'm sorry, what did your manager say about you again? I think I missed the fifth time you stated it.
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That I was the most talented trader he had ever hired. Got that rain man?
 
if you truly believe what you said, then i can say with validity that you are pathalogically unaware of your true motivations. ...and this is death to a trader.
 
Quote from Ditch:



You still don't get it . Your analytical skills and Oxford degree will be to little benefit when you're a trader, because trading is about different skills and mindset: perseverence, determination, ability to control emotions and humility. You will be surprised what your
emotions will do to you when you start trading your OWN money.
Your Oxford degree may land you with numerous interviews for a trader's position, but that only shows the lunacy of the selection process for jobs at Wall Street.
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I don't believe I can successfully complete my degree at Oxford without four qualities you listed above. Wall Street Firms likely realize what it takes to be successful at a school such as Oxford and I would imagine that some would conclude that if you can succeed there, you can succeed anywhere, understandably.
 
Quote from 0008:

I think those looking for quants always want guys with higher degree in Math/Phys from a top tier univ. Is anyone doing that?
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Thanks. I may decide to go the quant route which means I may have to program trading systems and etc...
 
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I got the position, nonetheless, with $55,000 salary + relocation costs, and was supposed to start sometime in march. About a week before my start date I got a letter from Oxford congratulating me on my acceptance. I had to turn down the position for more idealistic pursuits (the pursuit of truth) but was told that I could apply again upon graduation since the company is regularly hiring.

So you might ask: why are you worried about obtaining a salaried position in trading when you were offered a position without Oxford on your resume? Because, to be honest, that was the only offer I got after three or four months of job searching. I am hoping that Oxford will help to provide me with more employment options (rather than having me just settling for whatever comes my way, as has been the case thus far).

Thanks.
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Maybe you should have taken the position. I'm not sure about this, but I would think that having a trading position on your resume would open more doors to other trading jobs than a degree from Oxford would. But, either way, it sounds like you're in a win-win situation. If you found a salaried trading job before your Oxford degree, wouldn't you assume you could at least find the same type of position after you got the degree? I don't really see the point of your post.
 
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