Sales And Trading Interview Questions & Resources

The last few times we talked – a while ago now, back in the simpler times of October and September of 2024 – we talked about the tail risk of tarif...

In my last post – on the eve of the Fed’s rate cut cycle – we discussed how the history of rates over the last few years has been a Lucy-and-the-fo...

In many of my posts over the past year there’s been a consistent theme of the market getting ahead of itself on rate cuts and then – when inflation...

It’s probably not a bad time to do a post on Societe Generale since the dominate macro theme of the last few weeks – or at least the one that every...

As we talked about a few months ago, Goldman, MS, Bank of America, etc. will do client surveys around once a month or so to try to get a pulse for ...

Each month Bank of America, Goldman, etc. conduct surveys to get a feel for how their clients are thinking about the dominate macro themes of the d...

Every year, around Thanksgiving, investment banks publish their 2024 outlooks where they attempt to predict what the next year will have in store f...

In August there was an increasing consensus that we were observing a soft landing in real-time: not only was inflation fluttering down from its (ex...

In the last number of posts I’ve been throwing around the soft-landing narrative quite a bit; something that started as a whisper earlier this year...

In a recent desk note from Goldman, the current state of affairs was summed up well: “August has arrived and with it the summer exodus post a chall...

The vast majority of those coming into sales and trading do so through summer analyst programs, off-cycle internships, etc. because it’s so difficu...

Over the past decade TD has grown their global markets (sales and trading) platform quite a bit. Not only within Canada but also in the US where th...