What do trading companies teach during onboarding?
See title.
Companies like Optiver, Sig, etc have 2-4 month long training courses where they take someone with 0 knowledge of finance and trading and make them a successful assistant trader that after a bit of experience can manage on his own.
I’m very interested in learning more about these topics and would love to be in one of those trainings, but the boat has sailed for me and there’s no chance that I would be hired in any of these companies as a jr trader. In four months it’s impossible to learn everything that a degree in finance/economics/etc would teach you so I assume it’s very concentrated, just-the-important stuff which is exactly what I’m looking for at the moment since my job is already pretty demanding.
Can anyone list more or less what topics are covered so that I can find materials to learn on my own? Much appreciated!
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Risk management is crucial and is something that can get you fired very quickly if they don't think you learned it competently. The topic of risk management is fairly generally applicable to investing too. Internal tooling, not so transferrable.
Please don’t disrespect the entire swe brotherhood. Silently join the trading company, get humiliated, learn BS, get fired, and then share your wisdom on blind 😷