Saturday Open Thread

Posted on October 20, 2018 by rikyrah

Good Morning. I hope that you are enjoying this weekend with family and friends.

Congratulations to this young lady!

How this 23-year-old became the only full-time woman trader at the New York Stock Exchange
Courtney Connley
12:55 PM ET Wed, 13 June 2018

Working in an industry where you are one of very few women can be challenging enough — but imagine what it’s like to be the only woman on staff.

That’s the case for New York Stock Exchange trader Lauren Simmons. The 23-year-old is an equity trader for Rosenblatt Securities, and she is both the youngest and the only full-time female employee to hold that position at the NYSE.

“When I tell people what my job is they are always surprised,” she tells CNBC Make It. In fact, Simmons says that if you had told her five years ago that she’d end up working on Wall Street, she wouldn’t have believed the news herself.

“It’s surreal,” she says.

Working in an industry where you are one of very few women can be challenging enough — but imagine what it’s like to be the only woman on staff.

That’s the case for New York Stock Exchange trader Lauren Simmons. The 23-year-old is an equity trader for Rosenblatt Securities, and she is both the youngest and the only full-time female employee to hold that position at the NYSE.

“When I tell people what my job is they are always surprised,” she tells CNBC Make It. In fact, Simmons says that if you had told her five years ago that she’d end up working on Wall Street, she wouldn’t have believed the news herself.

“It’s surreal,” she says.

Hitting the Street
Simmons moved to New York after graduating from Kennesaw State University in December 2016. The Georgia native had interned at a local clinical treatment center in college while earning a BA in genetics with a minor in statistics. She had planned to pursue a career in the medical field, but after realizing that medicine wasn’t her passion, she started searching for opportunities in other industries.

Simmons started applying to positions in finance — she had loved numbers since high school — and eventually secured her current position at Rosenblatt Securities by applying to an opening posted on LinkedIn.

“The one thing that I love about numbers and statistics, and kind of one of the reasons I came to the New York Stock Exchange, is because numbers are a universal language,” she explains. “When you put them on a board it connects everyone, which is probably one of the reasons why the New York Stock Exchange is so iconic.”

She started her role in March 2017, but says her employment was contingent upon passing the Series 19, the exam all floor brokers must pass to earn their badge.

“I had a month to take the exam,” says Simmons, “and when I tell you a lot of people did not think I was going to pass, they really did not think I was going to pass.”

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28 Responses to Saturday Open Thread

  1. rikyrah says:
    October 20, 2018 at 5:06 pm

    I am going to speak my truth.

    These Asians are being used in this suit to try and dismantle Affirmative Action for Black and Brown folks.

    If they think for one minute that the PRIVATE Ivy League is about to turn into the University of California system….
    Well, they can live with those delusions if they want to.
    There is no way, and I do mean, no way, that the White alumni network is going to let that happen.
    And, that is my peace.😒😒

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/us/harvard-admissions-affirmative-action.html

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  3. rikyrah says:
    October 20, 2018 at 4:37 pm

    👏👏🙌🙌

    ‘Timeless’ Cast & Crew Tweet Table-Read Photos To Faithful Clockblockers – Deadline https://deadline.com/2018/10/timeless-cast-tweet-table-read-photos-clockblockers-1202486620/

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  7. rikyrah says:
    October 20, 2018 at 1:52 pm

    YES…

    A woman in line behind me tried to tell an elderly lady that the ballot was complicated and it was OK to skip voting on some amendments. The teeny-tiny lady, who was 108 years old if she was a day, yelled, “YOU DON’T KNOW ME. I DID MY RESEARCH.” And I shall love her forever. pic.twitter.com/tDPOyADCwu— Mary Laura Philpott (@MaryLauraPh) October 18, 2018

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  11. rikyrah says:
    October 20, 2018 at 10:02 am

    HUH?
    What’s going on here?

    Alaska governor Bill Walker drops re-election bid and backs Democrat

    Alaska governor Bill Walker dropped his re-election bid on Friday and backed the Democratic candidate, shortly after the resignation of his lieutenant governor over what Walker described as an inappropriate overture toward a woman.

    Walker’s announcement, made at the Alaska Federation of Natives conference in Anchorage right before he was to participate in a debate, was met with gasps and cries of “No!”

    “‘Alaska First’ is and cannot be just a campaign slogan,” Walker said. With less than three weeks until the election, Walker, an independent, said it became clear he could not win a three-way race against Republican former state senator Mike Dunleavy and Democratic former US senator Mark Begich.

    Alaskans deserve a competitive race “and a choice other than Mike Dunleavy”, Walker said.

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  23. rikyrah says:
    October 20, 2018 at 4:53 am

    Good Morning,Everyone 😄😄😄

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