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    trading/ stockbroking career in Dublin

    Check out Positive Equity Limited ? Financial Derivatives Trading - they usually hire folks with little experience to train them up. Aside from that Geneva trading? Or get a back/middle office job somewhere and work your way forward (tougher now, in our place only one person in last 4 years...
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    Learn to Code

    Actually I disagree. Programming is much more accessible than ever before. If you take 6months to learn to program, and I mean actually learn you could be developing your own small programs. Python is an excellent choice to start with. If you have zero programming experience then I recommend...
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    Opportunities in Brussels

    Hi all, Looks like myself and the missus *could* be moving to Brussels as she has gotten a good job. I currently work as a UNIX admin in a large brokerage/exchange. Looking at Brussels there's not many similar jobs there at the moment for myself. Would anyone have any info on junior trading...
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    IT to Financial Analyst

    Hi guys, Apologies in advance, this is not a request about a trading career. I've decided I prefer the analyst role rather than trading. Currently I'm working in IT (admin for HFT systems) in a large broker. We have a large research division that will eventually setup shop in Europe. At the...
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    Analysis with different close prices

    Ok cool, I guess I should stick to FxPro Mt4 for now since that's what I am trading with.
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    Breaking out of engineering...

    +1 Complete your degree and study trading on the side(get a book, open a demo account etc). When you finish you will have the chance (if you get excellent marks) to go on to a MSC in Finance which will beef up your profile even if you don't get in to trading or decide to go in to a different...
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    Analysis with different close prices

    hi guys, I'm still learning FOREX and come across something that I have not been able to solve searching Google. I'm running FxPro MT4 terminal and the current EURUSD close price is marked at $1.4315, yet on FOREX.com it is marked at $1.4320 and again Yahoo finance is at $1.4321. I know it is...
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    Technology, not trading, but still need advice.

    I work in the technology part of a large broker (sys admin). We develop our own software and have deployment teams for the software. Their experience is generally software engineering and throughout their job they liaise with traders, managers, sys admins etc on the testing and deploying the...
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    Traders from Ireland?

    I'm a complete beginner based in Dublin. I've zero experience so I'm starting from the groundup. I have recently started work in IT for a large broker so trying to get a better idea of what the industry is like. Any books or sites you guys can point me to would be great! Thanks, Will
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