Sales And Trading Interview Questions & Resources

Throughout 2020 and 2021 the incredibly long hours worked by those in investment banking has been widely discussed in the financial press. And chan...

Part of the reason for creating this site is that while there's lots of solid information online about investment banking generally, there's much l...

For those not yet in the sales and trading industry, there's a lot of confusion and misinformation about the salary and bonus structure. Some are u...

As I wrote about in the rather long sales and trading overview post, FX is one of the more interesting areas of a trading floor to be on. In partic...

One thing I've said many times is that within sales and trading, balance sheet is king. Because of the enhanced regulation post great financial cri...

The trading floors of major sell-side investment banks are laid out into distinct divisions. These divisions are then broken down into desks and th...

While the equities side of sales and trading has shrunk in headcount over the past decade - as many desks like cash equities have been almost entir...

When I'm asked about sales and trading platforms that fly under the radar, I always bring up Barclays. Despite a turbulent (to put it lightly) peri...

RBC Capital Markets is not only the largest sales and trading platform in Canada, but also has made significant inroads in the United States. RBC'...

Morgan Stanley offers one of the strongest sales and trading platforms for a young person to join. However, relative to its peers like Goldman Sach...

Sales and trading is unlike any other industry in finance. When I got started as a summer analyst at Goldman Sachs - as part of what was then calle...

Many will end up needing to choose - normally during their junior year of college - whether to pursue sales and trading (S&T) or investment ban...