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I want to get into Financial trading, investment banking etc... Degree in Psychology

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Original post by Oorlog
Recruiters will be concerned with your quantitative skills. So if you're a good candidate (ceteris paribus) you need something to show you've got a natural quantitative talent.

I doubt they will take math/stats courses designed for psychology students serious, but it would help if you scored high on them (90th percentile or higher).

PS: Accounting doesn't require math skills.



But you will need Accounts much more than maths for anything to do with equities .
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But you will need Accounts much more than maths for anything to do with equities .


Which is both true and irrelevant at the same time.
Original post by HighestKungFu
A fair point but there are more people who choose to be lawyers/bankers for the money than for what the actual job stands for and the work it involves. This is also bound to increase with the new fees. A generation of lawyers and bankers...a scary thought.


The point is that most people in all lines of work are there to pay the bills. The millions of admin, secretarial and retail staff probably aren't in it as a labour of love. Bankers just do best out of it.
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Which is both true and irrelevant at the same time.



Are you saying accounting knowledge is irrelevant to any sort of equities analysis?

How very strange
You learn research methods and statistics in in a psychology degree, plus behaviour analysis surely these skills can be transferred and applied to trading?
Original post by RosieRed93
You learn research methods and statistics in in a psychology degree, plus behaviour analysis surely these skills can be transferred and applied to trading?

9 year old thread bud

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