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!
RJ Eskow of the Huffington Post thinks he knows more about statistics than I do and is very concerned for our pop stars. Having wasted 4 years of my life studying statistics at Northwestern, I thus challenge Mr. Eskow to a statistical showdown with the winner getting to talk Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty off …
By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. Thank you, thank you. Just a little thought. I’m just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day they’ll take root. I don’t know. You try. You do what you can. Kill yourselves. Seriously though, if you are, do. No really, there’s no …
http://www.jailguitardoors.org.uk/ Billy Bragg is still angry and that’s a good thing. He’s arming prisoners with guitars! He’s still a huge Clash fan too and has released Old Clash Fan Fight Song, which is three minutes of both lyrical and musical quotes from the Strummer/Jones catalog, as a tribute to the five year anniversary of Joe’s …
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There is a special place in hell for the purveyors of penis enlargement products and hair regrowth products.
The VH1 Rock and Roll Movie is a strange thing.
https://bradlaidman.com/?p=443 I still haven’t changed my stance on this. Look at all the fuss they are going through to find this guy:
Chelsea Cain has supposedly just written the first fictional portrayal of a female serial killer. The main character of this opus is Gretchen Lowell, who USA Today describes as brilliant, blond and beautiful. How come every fictional serial killer is so brilliant?
 Uh oh, Kathy Griffin has enraged the country. During her Emmy Speech (her getting one is a bigger offense against good taste) she said, “a lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. …
Pam Anderson, every thinking man’s sex symbol proudly announced on Ellen that she lost $250,000 playing poker and then made up her debt with sex. No word on how much Ellen’s offer would have been.
