[tradingroom-announce] Sloan Trading Room Assistant Director UROP Position

[Andrew J. Lisy]

Trading Room UROP Positions Open

*_Open Positions:
_*The Sloan Trading Room Task Force is looking for motivated Freshmen, 
Sophomores, or Juniors who have a strong interest in finance and trading.
This is a _paid long-term_ position. Please refer to below for more details.

Attributes of a successful Task Force member are:
* strong communication skills
* self-starting
* background in basic finance
* background (or will be taking soon) in introductory level Sloan classes
* background (or will be taking soon) in basic probability
* passion for trading and financial markets

*IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, PLEASE EMAIL YOUR RESUME TO taskforce at mit.edu

**_About the Task Force:
_*The Sloan Trading Room Task Force (TRTF) is hired by Sloan Technology 
Services to maintain and assist in the operations of the trading room. 
Formed by Professor Andrew Lo, this group maximizes the potential of the 
school's state-of-the-art trading room. The TRTF is dedicated to 
teaching finance and trading to the MIT community. Each month, the TRTF 
presents trading principles and runs trading simulations on equity, 
fixed income, and derivatives markets. The TRTF also serves as a liaison 
between the trading room and interested corporations, speakers, and 
faculty. We hold frequent company-sponsored trading sessions as well as 
yearly trading competitions.

*_About the Sloan Trading Room:
_*The main mission of the Sloan Trading Room is twofold: 1) to encourage 
students to apply principles learned from Sloan classes to the fast 
paced environment of a trading floor and 2) to permit students to 
explore the career path of a professional trader. Since its founding in 
1997, the trading room has been widely successful. The combination of 
knowledge and skills acquired from the trading room is in much demand by 
corporations competing in today’s increasingly global business 
environment. Moreover, the many tools present in the trading room have 
nearly unlimited capabilities.

*_After the TRTF:
_*Past members of the Task Force are currently (or will be) working at 
firms such as:
Fidelity Investments - Fixed Income Research
Goldman Sachs - Principal Finance
Goldman Sachs - Currencies
Goldman Sachs - Credit
Goldman Sachs - Mortgage Trading
JPMorganChase - Risk Management
Credit Suisse First Boston - Equity Derivatives Trading




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