Recent content by Inspired

Thanks for taking the time to go through my posting history as I haven't actually looked at yours. Yes, you are correct, I used to work at an energy company in my home city. I was too comfortable there in a role that was far too easy, and you could say my life and career was stagnating. Moving...

I've gone back to them lowering my salary expectations. FYI, if I didn't care about my membership on these forums I would be replying to you with an even more insluting response than your own :)

Only turned it down on Friday so may be able to go back to them grovelling...

Earn reasonably good money, prepared to work longer hours but maintain a semblance of work life balance, and move abroad somewhere like Singapore or Hong Kong in a couple of years.

Hi All, I have a massive dilemma. I’m 31 and currently work for a UK retail bank within market risk in the City of London. I have no previous IB experience. I have received an offer from a top US investment bank for a role (Associate level) that isn’t bad but a little basic in terms of what I...

Thanks timsk and Hotch. I don't think either job stands out by a distance, so I guess I should look at the opportunities afforded to me instead.

Hi Charlton, thanks for your answer. I guess the 3 biggest dilemmas I have are: 1) Working in the financial services sector vs. energy commodities (I'd be working for the Gas & Oil desks). In role 1 at the Retail bank in the City, I would be working in market risk in financial products such as...

Hi All, I have had two jobs offers for roles that are both almost too good to turn down. Currently I work for an energy company in the UK in a commercial, non-trading environment, but ultimately I would like to get into trading, and maybe one day even become a trader. I do have a maths degree...

Hi there, I'm trying to find out how correlated are coal prices with other energy commodities such as gas or oil prices etc? Also, what the mains reasons for this correlation? Thanks.

Hi All, I have an interview coming up for an options trading role in the coal and freight markets. The last few days have been spent cramming in as much as possible about options theory and the Greeks etc. Now I need to learn about the coal market but this has been surprisingly difficult as I...

Hi Rhody Trader, Please could you elaborate on that?

So what you’re basically saying is that the GDP details did cause the dollar to slide? The rest of what you’ve said (and what spinola mentioned) would obviously cause the dollar to weaken in the long term, but I was wondering why there was a sudden decline in the dollar on Thursday after the...

Hi all, When the better than expected US GDP figure (+3.5%) was released last Thursday, this caused the dollar to weaken (surprisingly) and commodities to rally. Yet when the UK released it’s weaker than expected GDP figure (-0.4%), we saw the sterling weaken – perhaps on expectations that the...

Hi all, When the better than expected US GDP figure (+3.5%) was released last Thursday, this caused the dollar to weaken (surprisingly) and commodities to rally. Yet when the UK released it’s weaker than expected GDP figure (-0.4%), we saw the sterling weaken – perhaps on expectations that the...

Why has the price of oil plummeted in the last few weeks? Has the expected fall in future demand really had such a profound impact on oil prices? Thanks, Inspired