User Names On Elitetrader (a fun thread)

-mattjclark

Ok, see this one is like really abstract, so you'll have to bear with me.

My parents named me Matthew Justin Clark, but as I got older people just called me Matt, thus the "matt".

The "j" comes from my middle name Justin, except I just used the first initial, so "j".

And the "clark" comes from my last name Clark.

So its matt+j+clark = mattjclark

You got it?

I can explain it in more detail if it's too confusing.


(Yea, I know, I'm not too creative)
 
Yea, I'm very deceptive.

One time I told some guys on a thread that I was buying Coke, but I was actually buying Coca Cola Bottling. Boy did they feel dumb.
 
I shorted Priceline in the 25 dollar range. A guy that I was stiting next to, everyday would ask me if I was going to cover today and I kept telling him "pound, pound, pound". So one day, a new trader came in and sat behind me. He asked the guy next to me a question about Priceline's chart. The guy replied, "I don't know, ask Pound". Ever since then everyone called me Pound.

-Pound
 
Took the name from a computergame which was launched in 93 or 94 by Origin ( also known for their Ultima role playing games )

It was a kind of sequel to the famous WingCommander games and played in the WC universe.

I played this game for many months and kept an old 486 machine to play it even today once in a while.

The protagonist is a kind of lonesome rider who seeks to become rich through - what else - trading. Not stocks, but commodities between various planets and space stations ( a bit like Elite, for those of you old enough to now the the best space-trading sim. ever produced ).

A nice sequel was launched in 1995 - called Privateer 2. Since then, it became very quiet around these types of games and apparently, Origin was taken over by EA.

However, a new sequel is foreseen to be launched in 2003, by MSFT games - title : Freelancer.

When I started to trade the stockmarkets, I felt a bit like playing Privateer. Consequently, I choosed this as my nickname.
 
good idea chasinfla...

I had a feeling few understood my handle. It almost sounds like I want to be Sean, as in " O I want 2 B Sean". Rather, I am saying "O God it is 2 much B-eing Sean". In other words, the name is Sean.
 
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