@ Peaceful_Warrior: You get more then just 60k per year. It depends on where you work. At a prop trading firm, your are just trading like you always would but you would be using alot more money. (i.e. keeping 10% of a 20% gain on 50k is better then making and keeping that 20% gain on 10k of your own money)... A prop trading firm allows you access to more capital.
A bank you get a nice bonus at the end of the year in addition to you salary. My opinion is that banks are for older traders who need a stable wage to support their wife and children.
A hedge fund you would get more then a bank. But they normally require a phd/mba and I/bank experience.
And a market marker, I am pretty sure you would have the smallest salary potential. (i.e. 60k when you are starting out all the way up to something like 250k a fair few years later). MMs imo are second to bank trading. (please correct me if wrong)
@ traderboi29: You wouldnt get a sniff unless you know someone
@ qasim999: I am 20 as well and if you have always wanted to be a trader, you'd better of started trading by now. I have had my money in the markets one way or another (currencies, stocks, gold, oil, futures) for the past 2 years. All the money I have put in the markets I have earned by working s*** jobs at crazy hours. That teaches you a thing or two. I have made amazing progress.
I never plan on getting a degree/phd until im forty because by then I will be retired, f***ed enough super models, done wayy too much coke and will start to want people to call me doctor. To me, getting a degree at this age is just a waste.
p.s. Tibra never replied back to my application. I don't mind. Popped collars and stoner C# programmers aren't my style.
