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bigbaddom

Original Poster:

505 posts

241 months

Thursday 11th November 2004
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Need to fill in a job application form for tomorow.
Now comes the interesting bit.
Can someone please provide me with an explanation as to what exactly equity trading is.
Hope someone can help, and thanks in advance if you can.
Dom

PetrolTed

34,443 posts

310 months

Thursday 11th November 2004
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Trading in stocks/shares.

Martin_S

9,939 posts

252 months

Thursday 11th November 2004
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Equity: The value of an asset (or part of an asset) which is not indebted.

Equity trader: Category of registration both for market makers, agency traders, and proprietary traders in Nasdaq® and other OTC market equity or convertible debt securities and for supervisors of those activities. Does not include traders who primarily execute orders for a registered investment company. Equity traders must pass the test for limited representative-equity trader (Series 55) and, in addition, either Series 7 or Series 62.

Wacky Racer

38,996 posts

254 months

Thursday 11th November 2004
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This will give you a broad outline, but no doubt somebody will reply to this thread, who can explain briefly in a few sentences.........

www.equitytrading.com/

simpo two

87,093 posts

272 months

Thursday 11th November 2004
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Let's hope you do better than the current lot of muppets.

Fer

7,734 posts

287 months

Friday 12th November 2004
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(Nothing useful to add but) Good luck with the application.

m-five

11,443 posts

291 months

Friday 12th November 2004
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bigbaddom said:
Need to fill in a job application form for tomorow.
Now comes the interesting bit.
Can someone please provide me with an explanation as to what exactly equity trading is.
Hope someone can help, and thanks in advance if you can.
Dom


If you don't know what it is, should you be applying to do it?

DustyC

12,820 posts

261 months

Friday 12th November 2004
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Wise man once say "If you apply yourself anything is possible"

PetrolTed

34,443 posts

310 months

Friday 12th November 2004
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m-five said:

If you don't know what it is, should you be applying to do it?


I once got a job running a development project for a fixed income trading system. I had no idea what fixed income trading was

I survived... just