Investment Banking Internship For High School Student

Hey guys,

Im a 16 years old french high school student looking for an internship in an Investment Bank. I started to get interested into stock market, cryptocurrency and trading since 1 year. I work 1-2h everyday next to school and other projects doing technical analysis and looking for news and opportunities in the market. This full year of focus allowed me to acquire a lot of knowledge. My goal is to work in an investment bank and I want to start getting real experience before university. Im passionated and determined to become successful in this domain.

If anyone knows a way to get an internship in an investment bank in Paris or London it will be really helpful for me. If you also have advices to help me get an internship let me know it's also very interesting.

Thanks for your help

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  • InterninIB - Gen
Jan 31, 2022 - 1:05pm
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Jan 31, 2022 - 3:33pm
henri.dfa, what's your opinion? Comment below:

Do you have any link of content that describe in precision the role ofIB? I start to realize it's not at all what I imagined

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Jan 31, 2022 - 1:25pm
Risk Weighted Ass, what's your opinion? Comment below:

First off, stop doing technical analysis. No one reputable in industry uses it, and it no longer works. Just YouTubers tryna get you to buy their program.

To reiterate what the other guy said, first you need to learn the difference between the different areas of finance. Investment Banking is different from working at an Investment Bank.IBdoes not trade stocks, that's the global markets department (sales, trading, and research roles).

To get an internship as a high school student, first check for local programs. Boston public schools puts high school students at companies likeFidelity, State Street, andPutnam Investments for summers, but if you live in a suburb or go to private or charter school, you are not eligible.

Next, ask your parents, friends parents, aunt's/uncle's etcetera if they know anyone working in finance that would be willing to take on an unpaid intern.

Lastly, use LinkedIn and Google to find small investment firms in your area, and reach out by emailing their recruiters or asking for phone calls on LinkedIn. You can find their emails on their website and submit resumes, or you can look up or guess their email format (some chrome extensions can help). Then look up the employees on LinkedIn, then guess their email address ([email protected]for example), and email some employees and short 2-3 sentence paragraph introducing yourself, explaining your interests, and asking for a phone call to discuss. Attach and well-revised resume as well. Ask for unpaid internships.

关注小型投资公司,而不是银行. Banks are less flexible and usually too bureacratic.

如果他们真的想要,他们会付给你,但this stage it's better to just get the position, so you can leverage that for internship freshman year so you can leverage those to get killer, well paying internships at big banks sophomore and junior summers.

If you want a file describing the different roles in finance and their respective WLB, pay, day-to-day activities, and personality traits, PM me your email and I can send it.

Jan 31, 2022 - 3:31pm
henri.dfa, what's your opinion? Comment below:

Thanks for your comment.

You're right, I think I need to look in detail whatIBdoes. I'm very interesting for the file but sadly I can't send you a private message I'm new here

And about technical analysis I'm very surprised. If it doesn't works, so what uses professionals traders ?

Jan 31, 2022 - 3:43pm
Risk Weighted Ass, what's your opinion? Comment below:

Professional "traders" at a bank are simply middle men who take advantage of bid-ask spread.

Discretionary positions sometimes happen, such as thinking the market is mispricing volatility in options compared to historical volatility, or not addressing tail risks of big events such as regulatory crackdowns than an administration has shown patterns of increasing.

Usually it is just buying into a stock at a discounted price via a PIPE and possibly artificially selling or waiting for holding period to expire to sell, or taking advantage of mispriced securities.

Looking at a chart and looking at RSI orMACDis notwhat any of them do.

On the buy side, they value to company via methods such as CCA,DCF, SOTP analysis, etcetera. They then construct diversified portfolios of uncorrelated stocks. Some use TA to find an entry point, but many don't and believe it isBS.

Jan 31, 2022 - 6:32pm
BigBalls2000, what's your opinion? Comment below:

Good luck. Try sophomore diversity when you make it to college if you're eligible. Otherwise, getting into a target should be your next course of action.

Jan 31, 2022 - 9:48pm
Frogbefinancing, what's your opinion? Comment below:

Hey Henri, from one French guy to another, your best bet would be to keep grinding to land at Dauphine, a top-5 business school or a top-5 engineering school (or if money allows for it, maybe try to land a spot in a prestigious UK university). Everything else is just redundant - you're not likely to land a job in investment banking (in France at least) through any other avenue.

This isn't the US where there's a billionIBjobsto go around. It's small, tight-knit and they always recruit from the same schools. Grades should be your top priority.

Feb 1, 2022 - 12:50pm
henri.dfa, what's your opinion? Comment below:

I heard about Dauphine, it's a very good university and I will for sure put it on my Parcoursup Wishlist.

你怎么看待管理学院管理学院t Lyon 3 ? They have a master in finance that also look good

Feb 2, 2022 - 12:34am
Frogbefinancing, what's your opinion? Comment below:

From my understanding, IAE are going to be one step down from Grandes Écoles. However, asset management is not as selective and "preppy" as investment banking, so I don't think it would be impossible to reach asset management with a Master from an IAE.

I don't know the individual differences between IAE (Lyon vs Aix, etc.) though.

Sorbonne and other top Parisian public universities also have good programs that shouldn't be discounted. You can also access the Grandes Écoles through admissions parallèles, with your License from Paris 2 or such and then transferring to ESCP or Kedge for your Master.

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