In this video from MarketsWiki Education’s World of Opportunity event in Chicago, Jason Manumaleuna, the CEO of the RCG division of Marex Spectron, talks about some of the false starts in his life and advises students to focus on soft skills such as public speaking and business writing in addition to academics, and to “be the most impactful person in the room” rather than the smartest.
“Having the chance to be on the front lines working with the markets is an invaluable experience no matter what you do in the industry, no matter where you end up or what path you take.” In this video from MarketsWiki Education’s...
“Go find your friends. That’s the start of your networking skills. Learn how to go up and talk to people. Have a conversation, be interested in what they're saying and tell them what you're looking for and what interests you.” In this video from MarketsWiki...
“You don’t have to [meet] every credential and be an ‘A’ on all of it to get to that next role. You just have to believe you can do it, and you need to make others believe you can do it.” In this video from MarketsWiki Education’s World of Opportunity event in...
“The regulator has to be an enabler. But their mission is to protect investors and help preserve the quality of the market. There’s a mission there that has to be preserved in the face of change.” In this video from MarketsWiki Education’s World of Opportunity event...
“I didn’t like the floor very much... It was the [CBOE], which wasn't quite as rough and tumble as the futures floor, but I still felt kind of like this isn’t really a place for a nice girl like me.” In this video from MarketsWiki Education’s World of Opportunity...
“You can’t be an entrepreneur until you get that big idea. And that idea needs to be so big it feels like a curse as much as a blessing in the sense that you know you have to go do it.” In this video from MarketsWiki Education’s World of Opportunity event in Chicago,...
“Ask yourself if you’d be interested in an operations or compliance job. Because that gives you a foundation to help you excel.” In this video from MarketsWiki Education’s World of Opportunity event in Chicago, JB Mackenzie, director of futures and forex at TD...
“A market without information doesn’t trade, doesn’t move anywhere. It’s illiquid. Nothing happens and everybody goes away — [that’s] the last thing anyone wants. So information ends up being the most critical thing of all.” Philip Stafford of the Financial Times is...
“I don’t care what job you have, I don’t care where you are at, you basically hate 25 percent of what you do. Twenty-five percent of your job you’d probably do for free. It’s fun, it’s great, it’s why you get up in the morning. So, now you have a challenge — the 50...
"Everyone wants to be on their team. They understand human nature, they bring people together, they know how to resolve conflict. That makes a great mentor." Maureen Downs never had a mentor, but she knows what it takes to be a good one. A mentor is not supposed to be...
"There will always be someone as smart or smarter than you and you have no control over that. The only thing you have control over is whether you have more drive, more passion than others." As chief technology officer at Trading Technologies, Drew Shields has been...
“It doesn’t matter where you start, it matters where you finish. Don’t just do the job for the money. Do your research, work hard…and it might work out.” Garry Jones, CEO of the London Metal Exchange, says that our lives and the career path we...
"You would never have met a floor trader who did not live and breathe the markets every day. They literally could not wait for the alarm clock to go off every morning." Though the open outcry system of order execution has been relegated to the history books, the...
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