To my credit, I lasted a whole three days after coming back! A few people welcomed me and inquired about my health, but my new manager Mr. Pink didn’t seem to have anything of substance that he wanted to discuss with me. No updates, no words of encouragement. I see you’re back, try to make …
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“Whiz” calls a firm meeting. He is introducing the firm’s new brokerage business. It is a very animated speech. You can tell that Whiz was in the air force.
Ah yes, I’m a reader. I would soon suffer for this once again. By now everyone’s desk had been moved. My desk wasn’t located near any other traders. I was amidst a bunch of secretaries, which was fine with me, but didn’t bode well for my future.
The next three weeks were extremely dreary. It seemed like no one ever laughed any more, and the partners were nowhere to be found, seemingly planning the big reorganization that was about to made. In the meantime, we were all given small accounts to mess with, but were told that they essentially wanted us to …
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From here, things got so ugly I can only really laugh about it. Every day I wanted to quit, every day I was more worried about being fired. I had two million dollars to trade ,but with the new risk rules, I couldn’t even figure out a way to use it. The only way to …
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Monday morning Orange called a group meeting. He said that the firm was in the process of raising capital, and needed to appear cautious in the face of two disastrous days. Therefore, it had been decided that everybody would stop trading for a short period of time. They didn’t want us to increase our risk …
My first month trading the entire market just never went smoothly (they would eventually decide that it was too big a task for anyone), but for the first time since I’d been at ACME9, I was working my ass off. I had never really traded a portfolio this big before and I was going to …
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The bloom had finally started to wash off of Spivey’s rose. It’s a tough industry, and I’d like to think that I’d never wish someone to lose their job, but I wasn’t exactly broken up over his newfound troubles. Essentially out of jealousy, I’d always kept a little track of Spivey’s trades, and I found …
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Soon thereafter, I had a goals meeting with Orange and Floyd that I found to be a bit surprising. Whereas, a year ago, I had been seen as someone who was too out there to be given any real responsibility, now I was widely considered to be too risk averse!