Recent content by Jonny_m

It depends which stage you are at the interview process. If it is a final round interview, then you will be asked questions that test your knowledge on financial concepts and possibly some questions to test how good your maths skills are. If it is an options trading firm, then make sure you...

I "ain't gonna be getting an offer from em now?" And where exactly do you get this magical insight into the future from? I'm not arrogant, I'm just trying to assess the likelihood of certain things happening and to figure out what I'll do in response. When I initially asked the question, I was...

I think I'm definitely going to be taught a lesson for being so overly optimistic lol.

Sorry for the over-reaction lol. I'm not going to make applications to other places with the intention of leaving definitely 100%. It's mainly as a backup. I think what I will do is that assuming I get an offer from an IB grad programme and Mako (unlikely), then after 12 months I will tell my...

Are you joking? I'm afraid your argument is rubbish. Do you really think that this is an industry where we have to sit down and 'feel sorry' for our employee when a better opportunity arises? You know as well as I do that banks as well as trading firms won't give two ****s about firing their...

It's Mako Trading. I don't know if the contract is 18 months, but the website says that the trainee trader programme runs for a period of 18 months so I'm taking a guess that that's how long the contract is too. I've read also that a small percentage of the grads on the trainee programme end up...

I have an interview with a prop trading firm soon for entry in a couple of months, and on the website it says that its an 18 month training programme. The problem is that I am also intending on applying to the graduate programmes of Investment Banks in a couple of months. If I manage to secure a...