Trading is no longer what it used to be. Earlier this year I read Michael Lewis' Flash Boys, a shocking exposé of the equity trading landscape on Wall Street. Liar's Poker, by the same author, used to be key reading for aspiring traders; when I was in school everyone who was hungry to be someone would be talking about this book. But that was about junk bond trading in the 80's. It is a little ...
...I was recently invited by my university's career services department to go back to the campus and give a talk about trading as a career to a lecture theatre full of graduating students. Always eager to give back, I agreed, and while structuring my thoughts into slides for such a session, I decided a blog post could be useful for those of you here who might be interested in such a career yourself.
