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What do you mean ROI? I understand Return on Investment....but in a bank....it costs 800-900k (excluding salary) to have a prop trader sitting there. What if you have a Macro approach with 500,000,000 in assets and 6 people sharing the book? How much should you have made to say that you were...

Please advise Is there a way of knowing whether the histroical performace of a prop trader is actually any good? (please do not reply if you are going to say, "he made money", this is not what i am looking for) e.g. A long/Short prop trader makes $10m in 2005 and the same in 2006. How does one...

Here's the rest of the questions. The key one is, who sits on the equity derivative trading floor? Convertble bond guys Index exotics guys Index option guys Single stock Single exotics Delta 1 team Fund Derivatives Is this correct? What other teams are there? What is delta 1? Is stat arb...

Need some information on trading. A lot of questions. I have numbered the questions, please feel free to answer the ones that you have time to help me on. Thankyou for your time. Lets start. i know (or think i know) that a bank trading floor has an index exotics, index options, equity exotic...

Need some information on exotic derivatives trading. For, example, i know (or think i know) that a bank trading floor has an index exotics, index options, equity exotic structuring and vanilla options team. I know what the vanilla options guys do. The index option guys trade index options as...