Quote from buyhigh:
Dear rossmedia,
i believe you have been misinformed...i am sorry that you never got the experience to work with the worldco santa monica owner...i have traded for over four years some of which with him in NYC... this owner has a track record for being one of the best traders at wordlco and maybe wall street. that is why he has opened an office in Santa Monica. i attribute a lot of the money i make and success as manager and person to him. Lets forget about the millions he has made trading but talk about his track record for teaching. Not just in santa monica, but in NYC he has given up his techniques and secrets of trading for the advancement of others around him (which is in the hundreds traders by now)... In NYC, when he gave a seminar not only traders in his group would be in attendence but traders from the rest of the firm and even other firms would come. It is very hard to find people in this business who care about anything but themselves... this person has taught me that there is a high degree of satisfaction in teaching people how to succeed in this business and not just for yourself... i think his biggest fault is he becomes friends with the traders who work for him in the office...he takes the outside the office problems to heart and wants to help the traders on a personal level as well...
FOR EXAMPLE.... i met this guy he spoke highly of when i was visiting...we will call him "TODD C", some of u might know him...Todd was hired by wordlco SM....no money up! todd being the bright guy and smooth talker could not trade himself or talk himself out of a 100 shares of Lucent...i know he that he lost more then $40,000 of worldco and the mangers money....the manger instead of firing him, liked him so much that he told him to take some time off trading as the market was really tough in the late part of 2002 and early 2003....todd needing to pay bills asked if there is anything else he could do in the office...the manager had use his smooth talking ability to help recruiting and adminisstrating jobs...the manager not only paid him on the side out of his pocket several thousands, he helped pay his rent, feed him and even gave him clothes all when he was not only not a revenue source but a negative capital expense! All while he was doing this for Todd C, Todd was going behind his back and working for another firm (we will call "andover") to steal traders and giving false info about worldco and his manager....
money up, no money up...the requirements change as the market his good or bad...too bad for you Ross, they asked for 3k i put up 10k when istarted and it was the best thing i did cause that money i traded was real important...i am sure after the first few thousand Todd C lost it really did not efect him much...so, i have been to all of the firms and i have seen all the rates, all of the deals, and all of the systems, and none have impressed me any more then woldco. i am know i could work for any of them some might do some things better but the most important thing for me is the people around me...If i found some one like the manager of Santa Monica to work for i would give up rates, systems and P&L for the education and the personal caring that he provides his traders...