what a day!!!

 

Done alot of good work for Charideeee

 

please keep your sexlife with porkie OFF the board mate

Otherwise alex will want all the sordid gay details.

 

spill...............

 

told you

 

pics or stfu

 

Agreed TRADER !!!!!

 

Mark - you trading in the City as well?

Who for?

 

You forgot "G'is a job" .

 

Whose Man Utd shares did you offload yesterday then?

 

 

lol.. none cam.

rich - i work at the same place as lee doing i.t.
as for pics there should be a link later i think.

 

Depending on what Mark did, I was coming to that part

 

Check out PTI.LN this morning

 

Fook me, up 30.5!!!!!!

What a graph!

Hope you were on that badboy

 

House stock

Check the IOIs

 

I wish i understood all this

 

Likewise, i think Porkie's chosen area of interest is a lot more profitable than knowing crap like how to make power from an engine!

 

Deffo

 

I think Lee should run a trading room on here so we can all make wedges of cash . Did anyone mention insider trading or front running

 

Its actually Dangerous's area, nothing to do with my stuff. I trade Emerging market Eurobonds.

I just looked up the stock and so you understand the graph looks like the power curve on a badly specced yb engine on a T200 Turbo! It suddenly SHOT up after doing fook all for years!

There are pics and articles in the broadsheets about our day yesterday. ICAP raised over Ł5m pounds for good causes. Had loads of celebs and stuff around all day and we were all in fancy dress. Was fun day

 

do you play with your money or other peoples ?

 

I actually find this stuff absolutely facinating after buying wholesale gas and power for Kodak on the forward and spot markets (circa Ł10m/year).

Now I'm an energy consultant and keep a watching brief on Carbon prices and Energy prices but I do fancy moving into trading.

How did you guys get into it (especially Lee as I know you did sports science didn't you? )

 

How does it all work, as i read all these figures etc and it could be interesting to me, but i just dont know how the fook it works

 

I'd be interested to hear that too, as it's something I would love to get into!

 

Ive got a 1 pound bet waiting for anyone willing to give me odds.

Im going to say "its not what you know, its who you know!"

 

absolutley

 

lol at Chip. You saying that from experience mate?

 

got a business studies degree as well but I got in the way most people used to, (its changed now though)... an Ex-girlfriends brother ran a desk. Started after Uni, working with him.

 

Chip you were indeed correct. Porkie didnt actually say the words but he may as well have

 

Took ages posting that... just seen Chips post.

Yep, spot on!

VERY different now though. Its all Grad recruitment programs etc..

 

Me neither, please let me know if you find out

 

I just stumbled into the business 20 years ago when i moved to Reading. They needed someone with good phone manner to collate orders from braches in the provinces & then route to the London market floor (before your time Porkie eh )

Liked the industry & I passed the exams required to trade

Worked myself up to Director of trading in Retail biz (pioneered the online trading model for the UK) processd Ł20bn through my desk yearly with 6 traders.

Now working as a sales trader finding & placing big lines of stock (mainly UK but some European) with institutions.
As example had a Ł20m order yesterday

Remember that in this business we work long hours though I do about 14 hours a day Ok travel 4 of them but still 10 hours at the desk

If you get it wrong IT COSTS !!

 

No more ex barrow boys starting as traders now then?

 

Personally i would like the adrenelin rush of it, that would actually interest me more than the personal financial gain, but ive always been a thrills junky.

Im very envious of your position, but it certainly sounds like you have earnt it

 

Very unlikley Chip

But i do know of one who was that good his firm registered him to trade without even passing the exams
Only problem with that is you cant take the qualification with you to another firm so you are a bit tied

 

Golden handcuffs

 

Im front office ops and have just moved to a hedge fund.. will be studying hopefully next year fingers crossed

 

Chip

I guess you could say I`ve done my time

Did spend many years as a lad working on the desk with an arse of a manager for small money

But it came right in the end

 

Fair play mate

can i borrow a fiver?