depending on desk, region and performance benchmark
Equities tends to be the rough area.
Fixed income/rates and FX are better.
A remote friend of mine who works for Wachovia Securities got 100% in trading exchange listed options. The whole desk (10+ traders and support staff) was sacked.
He was the only one making money on his book and he decided to retire...only 32 years old, bustard. I also know a few guys who are over 50 and worth 500M+, still working regular hours.
It seems you are on the Fixed Income side, what kind of duration play for the inverted yield curve in US ?
