Waymon3x6
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No-no on the qualification summary... and make it a single page. also, make your points in bullets, not sentences. no one is gonna read your entire essay word for word. also, use the M&I template for your resume; its much cleaner and easier to read. google it and good luck
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proptrader14
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The above info is helpful. Also, given that you mentioned you have been trading for the majority of your life and have, presumably, a large passion for it, where is that listed on your resume? I would put everything you mentioned in the post on your resume (in a shorter, more concise way of course) to display your passion for trading. Otherwise, if I was just looking at your resume I would have no idea why you want to do trading in the first place. I would certainly be prepared to talk about anything trading-related that you put on your resume, but from my experience in full-time and internship recruiting at top prop firms, they don't really grill you on it, more just general questions about strategy, how I formulate investment ideas, etc.
While I don't work in trading anymore I still know a lot about the prop trading scene and have a lot of contacts at the different firms, so feel to pm me if you want more info. I should mention most of them are hr contacts and would just be one step above applying on their website, but still it's something.
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Mitt Romney
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You've been trading since 11?
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ErikSpy
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@Mitt Romney Yes, I started my first account when I was 11. Still have the first statement. Here's the short version. I spent alot of time with my grandfather and uncle at their ice cream palor when I was a kid. Both who'd just sit around and trade the market all day. My uncle still makes his living by trading (sold the ice cream palor). He's always traded his own account, so no connections to the street. Anyway, when I was 5 my grandfather sat me down and said "This is the WSJ, this is the Barrons, I'm going to teach you how to read them". That was that, I always watched it since then. When I was 8 I opened up a small jewerly business, doing local craft fairs and selling to local stores. I grew out of it when I was 11, sold all my inventory to a local shop and took the couple grand I had I told my mom I wanted to buy Dis and MCD. Worked good, tiny beanie babies came out shorlty there after.
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ErikSpy
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@proptrader14 Should I include the above info I just resonded to Mitt about? It's ironic for me at least, my first resume to get a job at a bank I included all this information. Naturally several years have passed so I'm sure it'll look much better this time around.
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proptrader14
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ErikSpy:
@proptrader14 Should I include the above info I just resonded to Mitt about? It's ironic for me at least, my first resume to get a job at a bank I included all this information. Naturally several years have passed so I'm sure it'll look much better this time around.
I wouldn't include anything about your uncle or the stories that you told on the resume itself because there won't be enough room (just focus on results, what you traded, and be as specific as possible). However, when networking and in interviews I would mention all of it because it's very unique and memorable.
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ErikSpy
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