Recent content by woodlands

I admit actually that trading on your own account, particularly if you don't have a decent day job and want to try to draw income from it, is a lot harder than having a salaried job as a trader. Probably one of the hardest thing a person can do, particularly due to the psychology and lack of...

They also run their entire balance sheet through MS Access and have lost $40bn in assets & 2/3 of their market cap . If you follow the news, why would you have thought they could do any better?

Hi, I work in an investment bank, now in structured credit derivatives, and am losing touch with the real world, and with trading being more than an exercise in marking down assets. I would be interested in finding some like minded people to form a smallish trading 'club' for regular meets (eg...