Brand New Equity Trader, Employee of 1.5 years
Pros
Ability to generate and test your own ideas in a free-form environment with the backing of the firm's superb technology, management's support, and the community's collaboration. Almost everybody here was willing to work with me from the beginning because of the general belief that long-term collaboration leads to long-term consistency and success. From this, I was able to narrow it down a core team that I enjoy working with very much. Training new traders is SMB Capital's specialty. I started as a brand new, excited young trader, ready to attack the markets and generate PnL instantly. Management has seen many pathways to success and treated me as an individual right away, but at the same time showed me a perspective on a proper process for improving consistently everyday. I believe this balance is what made SMB Capital a success for me. I cannot understate how easy the technology is to use and the number of options available. I started as a discretionary trader, and was able to learn how to backtest my strategies in under 3 months. Now, the firm is backing my automated trading algorithms. My coding background coming in was small to medium.
Cons
It is what you make it. If you're not asking questions, nobody will come to you as everybody is constantly working on their own growth. If you're not providing ideas, research, or time, then nobody has a good reason to continue working with you. If you are not willing to put in work in the right way, you will fail.
