Friends, traders, wannabes:
(Well, wannabes might wanna just watch).
As you may (but most likely do not) recall, I exhausted a considerable part of my waning youth as a prop trader.
I finally faced the music that it was nearly impossible to beat the house and trade my style, which is low risk, high frequency. But I sure made two shops a good bit of stready, low risk money, for years, and they duly folded up in spite of it, mismanagement being the key requisite for entry into the business, apparently.
Anyway, since I was laid off from my "real" job, I, perhaps exhibiting the sort of foolish tendency that keeps a woman going back to an abusive mate, have decided to check out the "state of the art" in prop trading.
I know somebody who knows a big shot at Hold Brothers, so I thought that "in" might be helpful, which it probably will, in getting me fleeced again. But they don't have a space in Manhattan. That may actually be a plus, as having a lower nut might make management less desperately creative in insistence on separating traders from their gross.
So, what's changed while I was out living a normal life?
[i edited this post because I jolly well felt like it]
(Well, wannabes might wanna just watch).
As you may (but most likely do not) recall, I exhausted a considerable part of my waning youth as a prop trader.
I finally faced the music that it was nearly impossible to beat the house and trade my style, which is low risk, high frequency. But I sure made two shops a good bit of stready, low risk money, for years, and they duly folded up in spite of it, mismanagement being the key requisite for entry into the business, apparently.
Anyway, since I was laid off from my "real" job, I, perhaps exhibiting the sort of foolish tendency that keeps a woman going back to an abusive mate, have decided to check out the "state of the art" in prop trading.
I know somebody who knows a big shot at Hold Brothers, so I thought that "in" might be helpful, which it probably will, in getting me fleeced again. But they don't have a space in Manhattan. That may actually be a plus, as having a lower nut might make management less desperately creative in insistence on separating traders from their gross.
So, what's changed while I was out living a normal life?
[i edited this post because I jolly well felt like it]