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“Crazy hours as a trader left me on prescription meds”
When Tracy Timm walked away from her job in credit sales at RBS’s Stamford building eight years ago, she was not in a good way. “I was doing CrossFit and eating reasonably well, but I was definitely drinking way too much and burning the […]
This is what you do all day as a systematic trader at a hedge fund
Some of the best jobs in contemporary trading are for systematic traders working with quantitative hedge funds. These are traders who design trading strategies using computing models, which trade automatically. It’s a job that might sound low maintenance – you design […]
“I’m sick of working long hours as a European trader”
If you’re a trader in the U.S., I take my hat off to you: you’re in the right location. If, like me, you’re a trader in London, you have my pity. At the time of writing this article, the market […]
Citi government bond trader latest to join Millennium
A government bond trader who left Citi three months ago has become the latest person to join hedge fund Millennium Capital Management in London. We reported the resignation of Jorge Deza Neira, a managing director on Citi’s European government bond […]
Comment: What does a hedge fund execution trader do all day?
If someone told you they were a trader for a hedge fund, would you be impressed? Probably. But hedge fund traders are not as important as you might think they are. On the sell side traders are right at the top […]
Comment: My female trader colleague said she got pregnant to avoid losing her job
When’s the best time to get pregnant if you work in an investment bank? According to my female colleague on the trading floor, it’s August. That way you can announce your pregnancy to your boss in October and make sure that […]
Voici la journée-type d’un trader systématique dans un hedge fund…
Certains des meilleurs jobs dans le trading actuel sont pour les traders systématiques travaillant avec des hedge funds quantitatifs. Ce sont des traders qui conçoivent des stratégies de trading en utilisant des modèles informatiques, qui tradent automatiquement. C’est un travail qui […]
Le métier de trader matières premières vu par… un stagiaire à Genève
Le trading graduate programme s’articule autour d’une combinaison de rotations entre différentes positions qui permettent de découvrir la totalité de la chaîne de valeur et de développer les compétences nécessaires pour devenir un trader de matières premières. Chacun des graduates […]
Frat boys vs. strivers at Goldman Sachs. Trader destroys career for nothing
Goldman Sachs is a paradox. On one hand, it says it doesn’t like to hire wealthy, “entitled” graduates, but people who’ve risen out of adversity. On the other, it frequently seems to hire students from elite schoolswhose parents have often […]