5 Skills You Must Learn to Work in Finance

In this video, I go through what I believe are the top 5 skills you should learn if you want to work in the finance industry, and more specifically, the financial markets side. These are most likely roles on a trading floor like trading, sales, portfolio management, research, and risk management. Whether you're in college, entering the work force, or pivoting from a different industry, these are 5 skills that you can start working on right now to put on your resume, nail an interview, or immediately start adding value right when you join a trading desk.

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[minhhoangle]

Never have i clicked on liked and subscribe so fast, please make more video like this, or within the industry like Hedgefund and portfolio managing, Thankyou !

[sindhushreereddy]

Your content is consistently insightful and engaging! Your unique perspective adds immense value to the discussions. Keep up the fantastic work!

[Prophesite]

Excellent vid man! Congrats on the sponsor.

[dk]

This was a really insightful video, cheers !

10:53 Could you share the method/steps you used to make the correlation matrix, would be really helpful, thanks.

[huntertrader]

Nice video . Just subscribed. how should we know which factor is the most dominant at any given point of time in currency market?

[FrappuccinoDrinks]

Can you do a video on all the 'out of the scope of this video' things you mentioned

[arxhgobabasgt]

Great video thx for the info ! I’m 2nd year in college and this summer I’ll learn coding, do u suggest starting with excel and vba or python (I hope to learn both of them till the time I apply for internship but I’ll like to know which is more important). I would really appreciate if you answer me thanks

[kodiakgriz]

Best macro micro videos out there as heavily credentialed quant love it.. at 2.0 $peed;

[sarthak]

Your videos are really insightful and helpful for me as someone, who’s interested in finance and is figuring out the realms

[drayvenbeckmon]

What’s the name of that movie in first clip

[tokajj]

Is it possible there are any fields that don’t require more than basic level maths?

[alexedrichlim]

Hey Aaron! Great video! I was just wondering what programming language is more suitable for people without any coding background to learn(to be used in the field of finance); Python or R?

[evanchen]

What type of hedge fund do you work for long/short, global macro, event driven etc.?

[kingzack]

Can i get in to finance if do MBA in business analytics ?

[iufu]

Any tips for high school students wanting to do finance? Any thing I really need to know before I select it as my major?

[Tytrades]

I love trading and have been in this space for about three years now. I currently day trade futures and it's truly a passion mine. Would you suggest that I go for a finance degree? Is it worth it?

[abhilashchowdary]

videos are very informative and know leadable, Can you make a video on finance project using python which helps us more

[mynameis.]

would you say getting a CFA certification would make one stand out more to employers as well as provide an individual with the above-mentioned required skills?

[SpeedGodOf]

Aaron, what do you think about learning to code in R instead of Python?

[nihonpark]

Is it really important to learn any programming language for investment banking role?