<t>Someone once said prop firms are the underbelly of the investment community. I tend to agree.if you want a career in the "city" doing anything remotely front office based then pretty much the worst thing you can do is work for an arcade/prop shop.i have done for 2 years now and am practically une...

<t>regarding telephone interview, they asked questions like:what you know about icapwhats the difference between broker and traderwhat brokers dohow you know you'd be a good brokerdo you have selling skillstypical hr bullcrapbefore interview i read a chapter from a book 'trading and exchanges' about...

i just passed telephone interview with icap for their graduate programme (i got 2 years experience in trade execution).anyone could shed some light on what would the second interview be emphasinzing on?thanx

<t>You gotta be kiddingit is a f#####g bucket shop.means no salary.all you do is flipping futures intra-day.market been tight like a## so don't expect to make any money.still you got many kids dreaming of becoming hot shots.in the meantime they are more then willing to work for less than McDonald wa...

hi desmondhow did your interview go?i have telephone interview with hr next week.what kind of dumb ass questions do they ask?currently i work as a trader but trying to move into broking.they ask me to apply for they grad programme which is strange becausei am so old and have experience.cheers

<t>best description of wat a broker does found in a recent job add:" If the following is an accurate description of yourself you are on the way to striking gold. Were you the most popular at university? Were you captain of a University Sports team and did you lead your team to victory? Do you have a...

<r>check out this program in Warsaw, Poland.its headed by a very well respected quant Marek Rutkowskihere is the curriculum..<URL url="http://www.mini.pw.edu.pl/~fmg/index.php?id=16its">http://www.mini.pw.edu.pl/~fmg/index.php?id=16its</URL> going to cost you a fraction of what you pay elsewhere, an...

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could u send me a link to this articlethanx

<t>Looking for a practical book on quant finance for a trader. Don’t care about theorem/proof structure. I need is a book that contains a lot of plug'n'play "quick fix" recipes for the important calculations.How about those two books. Any good?A Trader's Guide To Quantitative Methods (Don’t Panic ):...

<t>about me.currently employed as a junior execution trader working for a city prop shop specialising in the systematic trading of interest rate futures markets using quantitative models. trading market neutral, mean revering strategies in euribor, short sterling, eurodollars such as spreads of spre...