What Experience/Education is expected?
Stability of employment?
What would I most likely be trading?
Where/how would I find a job?

Proprietary Trader

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Explain what proprietary trading is.Find details of: Trading firms, job requirements, salaries, fields in prop trading.job search engines can help provide general details:https://www.linkedin.comhttps://www.monster.comhttps://www.glassdoor.com https://www.linkedin.com

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Salary/Income

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Can you expect to become wealthy from this line of work?what is the average salary?are there commissions?

Hiring proccess

Required Education

Training

Trading Firms

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What firms are most commonly hiringProp traders?Find Firms/Companies through job search engines:http://www.indeed.comhttps://www.monster.comhttps://www.glassdoor.comhttps://www.linkedin.com

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Fields in trading firms

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Quantitative AnalysisAutomated systems programmerRisk management

Other topics & Sources

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These are topics that I may want to address and define, for my Week 7 assignment.Sources: http://www.wsj.com/http://www.economist.com/http://www.bloomberg.com/http://www.investopedia.com/

History of trading

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The transition from trading on floors, to trading online.Transition to Automated trading.

Market analysis

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The three general forms of analyzing the market.which form of analysis would a trading firm most likely use?Quantitative Analysis

Fundamental

Sentimental

Technical

Securities

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What securities are often traded.

Equities

Bonds

Currencies

Derivatives

Investing

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Cover the differences of trading and investing.may need to explain things such as:Hedge fundsInvestment banksBrokrage

Exchanges

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What exchanges do firms trade through.

Trading/Investment orginizations

Trading styles/methods

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Considering that a firm could loss money from a bad trade. What kind of constrictions would a Prop trader face, and how would that effect their trading style?also, what returns does a firm expect from its traders?

Automated trading

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Automated trading and working as a programmer in a firm.Algorithmic TradingBlack Box TradingRisk ManagementQuantitative AnalysisEvent Based Trading

Manual/Human trading

Independent trader

Career advancement

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What other opportunities would this career field offer me?what would a promotion look like?Management PositionIndependent traderFound their own Firm

This concept map regards my career interest (Proprietary Trading), and attempts to show the process in which I ask necessary questions to find the answers I need.