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there's only one bottom line on Wall
Street and that bottom line is how much
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money you make you've gotta be smart
it's going to be quick if you see
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something you got to act upon it so much
opportunity and gotta have the edge I
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love my job.
we're always bumping and pushing and
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shoving and shouting each other but at
the end of this day we still comrades it
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on greed is ugly make as much money as
you can so that you can get out of there
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before it turns you to the dark side
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this means five that south
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my name is John Hanuman anima commodity
floor broker at the comics division of
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the New York Mercantile Exchange that
means I can trade base metals copper
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alley I can say gold silver option under
the training right now cotton is open
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they trade cocoa they drink sugar coffee
orange juice and would you see here then
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this row is all metals silver gold
copper this is what I call my home and
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my office the phones and I have an Fe
some of them go to Paris some of you go
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to London many of them go to Chicago I
do resist the scrap dealers hedge funds
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hedge traders individuals the broad
audience that we do business for here
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and once best the copper ring now you go
to the gold ring which is the what we
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call the fifth currency in the world
which is very sensitive to the value of
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the dollar further on you have the
silver market which is more of a
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commercial market than the gold market
I remember since 1970 I'm probably the
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oldest active commodity floor broker in
New York my name is Janaki Spain and I'm
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a trader I'm Richie from London and I'm
31 years old I trade the Schatz on New
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York's exchange and I've been doing that
for approximately seven years for
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Shahnaz to focus on the shots a specific
type of German fixed income security
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there's a reason there it's to sort of
hone all the forces you can muster in on
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one specific security and becoming the
expert on how that thing moves because
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it's moving all day try please and I got
into finance was the money I have a goal
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where I Sayed is how much money I'd like
to make every year and then I break it
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down to monthly weekly and daily I don't
try and trade out of my reach I think
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this one tricks of doing I'm an
independent trader which means i trade
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my own money since i've been trading on
my own I've done pretty well my returns
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pretty high and being really high there
is a lot of luck involved sometimes I'll
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just go in and make money literally just
like then I'm like what did I do it has
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happened but you've got a piece of mark
because I click trade so you've got to
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be able to change your mind very quickly
that's how the markets react to you if
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you see something you're going to act
upon it there and then you go remember
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there are a lot of other people out
there doing the same thing as you got a
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happy ending
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hey how's it going hey things are
alright
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you know trading the chugging along but
uh yeah yeah I mean things are going
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well it's just going to take a few
months to turn around ya know we do have
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this one position that's losing money it
really is a great company and even
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though it is down quite a bit off its
eyes I mean the market is complete shite
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lately
ya know we I mean I really believe the
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fund has a great future here it's really
it's really all upside from here yeah
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it's really not as bad as it seems I
know the stock is down but it's
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meaningless right now until you see some
results I definitely wouldn't suggest
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selling right now yeah no no I
understand okay yeah I'll email it yeah
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it's um PDF just just sign it and fax it
back to me and that will be your 30 days
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notice you can take it back at any time
you know I like your money I like you
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alright I'll email you the form okay
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I'm having lunch today with a group of
top-notch portfolio managers they meet
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on a regular basis to discuss the
markets and I went to ask them their
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opinions on which qualities to look for
in a very best manager in this business
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5% of investors know what they're doing
10% follow the 5% and 85% have an
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extremely difficult time what do you
think are the most important qualities
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that an individual portfolio manager
must have it's fortitude in patience
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because there's going to be times where
you have to be patient let things play
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out and then you've the ability to take
a lot of pain perfekt your style you can
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make money as a day trader you can make
money as a momentum play to make money
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as a deep value player you just got to
stay with your strengths I think that's
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very important one of the
characteristics that a good money
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manager need is an evaluation of
management you have to psychologically
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understand them and understand their
strategy my favourite companies are
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those that have bad balance sheets with
absolutely crackerjack management by my
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analysis that's where you really make
the money especially when people don't
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believe them and they trade them down to
pennies you buy it when nobody else
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wants and then all of a sudden you have
on your hands the stock which is up can
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go up 100 200 500 times now this is
they're not easy to find but the micro
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cap the small cap area that's where the
real value is in my opinion and I see
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250 to 300
CEOs a year I visit with you need a
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contrary in flavor to your thinking
process when everybody says it's bad
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that's the time to look at them what we
have
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well the he's gonna get his money out
and that sucks
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the fund is down about 300 grand this
month alone which is what has got all
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the investors flipping out because of
this this position this position that I
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took one time I went long for a while
and this is this is the the price I'm
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paying
he's a quarter of a million dollar
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investor so he's a pretty large investor
and it happened you know I've I've lost
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investors before god ah
you haven't even lost any money he's
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just lost confidence this is Wall Street
Wall Street is about perception when
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you're down this much in one month why
trust a 25 year olds working out of a
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department make it short it may sound
pornographic what it actually refers to
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is when you sell short a security that
you have not properly borrowed hence
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when you sold it you were naked naked
short
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I'm an independent floor broker I trade
copy one contract the cop is 25,000
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pounds and every time I do a trade I
have to transcribe that on a trading pad
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with the time within a minute that card
will be picked up by these people with
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yellow jackets down here and also key
punch by my employees who entered into a
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matching system to make sure we don't
have any errors so everybody knows in
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the 15 minutes the financial integrity
of the trade
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we always bumping and pushing and
shoving against quite heated we have
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very stringent rules on physical
altercations in a couple of weeks ago we
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had somebody choking somebody else we
hadn't both removed the floor so we
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found out you know who is the culprit
and recorded and he'll be very heavily
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funded I mean we yelling and we're
shouting each other but at the end of
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this day we're still comrades and on
some look like family this is I would
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consider this my family I'm here waiting
for this guy who raises money for hedge
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funds and hopefully you like my fun
enough to raise money for me everybody
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wants a million but it's questioning are
you going to get them are you worthy of
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getting any money most people think you
need a big-time office in big time
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employees and big time technology and
I've proven over the past few years they
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all you need is a little talent a little
luck and a little philosophy but I got
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to make my case telling what I do and
make him believe I am worthy and manager
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selection what do you think I should be
looking for an independent intellect
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is what's most important not a follower
I had a Chinese following the other day
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and I want to see what this fellas
really made of you know and the Chinese
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are inscrutable you don't really get
that answer just by looking him in the
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face right so I attacked him with an
aggressive approach on certain touchy
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subjects and the economy in China got
all upset and excited and I found out
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what he was made of
I bought the stock of course for my
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clients a very sharp excellent
businessman who knows his stuff and I
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wouldn't have never found that out just
by asking a mundane questions without
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insulting him but that's what's
important to understand the man what is
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this man the right man to do the job you
have to be able to discern what is real
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information and what is just tough I'm
not going to Tracy I'm going to attend a
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seminar and called d'oeuvres as well I'm
on my own so it's important for me to
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keep up to date on exciting my
competitors I want to catch up with why
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not the executive board members of the
York
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Jane she'll be able to answer my
questions I have there's regards to
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products I'd trade and there's service
products that I use and I know them
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personally size only tougher than trauma
training core there has been a recount
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as to change living parameter
it's a man's world it definitely is a
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man's world it's funny sometimes I'm out
and you know just to make myself feel
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comfortable and I know I shouldn't have
to do this for me you know I'm not
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afraid well at times I just tell people
on the secretary or PA because people
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feel more comfortable talking to me but
then I'll be like okay I'm going to tell
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you what I really doing this
people just switch off like they don't
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know how to talk to me I've had comments
like people said to me oh I've been
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talking down to you you know bill their
Fae things like that and I'll say to
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myself that's a real stupid thing to say
like you talked me down to me big deal
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just talk to me like a person
back in 2001 a lot of people need money
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very easily the markets were very good
now there are a lot more players
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definitely I mean at one point I was
anywhere from ten to fifty percent of
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the volume of that particular contract
now I'm lucky for 1% I've had bad days
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where I've lost money where the average
person here in the United States would
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not probably make for five years so tell
me about your strategy
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my strategy is short buy it you know I'm
shorting small cap and micro-cap stock
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just when they run up you know there's a
lot of manipulation in the micro cap and
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small cap area a lot of heights a lot of
retail euphoria a lot of people get
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emails and text messages and phone calls
a night before saying o buy those stocks
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it's going up they see you going up
there they buy the stock and I look for
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these inefficiencies to short into these
these fundamentally flawed company it's
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very unsophisticated the marketplace
that I do
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I'm going to see Jim Rogers he's one of
the legendary investors of our times and
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he started the fronton fund with George
Soros in 1973 and for the remainder of
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the decade they had an unbelievable
return of 4,000 percent thank you well
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this is certainly independent well this
is unique I've never seen this anew all
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of this stuff comes from my travels from
various places around the world
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you started the legendary Quantum Fund
with George Soros in the early 70s and
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did that for ten years why did you stop
doing that why did you quit one reason I
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quit was because I didn't want to wake
up at age 75 and they would say Rodgers
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was a great investor that's all he ever
did though I mean I wanted to buy my
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freedom and have the freedom to pursue
adventure so I did a lot of traveling I
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motorcycles around the world done a
couple of those trips and in the car
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trip around the world
no we were held hostage we went through
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epidemics we went to Wars lizards and
deserts this is not a trip to Atlantic
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City for the weekend you did what most
people dream about doing but they could
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never afford it and they could never do
it the last leg of our trip in fact we
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were coming down from Alaska we were in
Colorado when a guy came running over to
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us and said oh my god just my dream he's
like 45 years old said I've always
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wanted to do this and now you've
inspired me I'm going to do it too then
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he looked at the car and he said well
that's a two-seater isn't it he said
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yeah he said you mean three years
side-by-side in a two-seater you were
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never apart we said yeah he said my
fiancee and I set out to drive from
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Connecticut to California can we hate
each other he said we've never spoken to
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each other since he said that bitch that
bitch got out in Denver and I don't even
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slow down
how long would it take for you to
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develop ideas so put money to work
someone wants to invest five or ten or
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20 million value you wire me the money I
could have it in my brokerage account
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next day you'll have the ideas to put it
already zero is there I'm your deepen oh
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yeah I mean the ideas are there pretty
much every few days who have you
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targeted who is your investor base
I need rich individual yes that's what I
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needed and they're the hardest well you
need sponsorship most of the people I
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need a long bias yeah so I mean you're
the other extreme yes refreshing we may
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have people that say I appreciate it
great Canadian on you too
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thank you I mean I got some money from I
don't know we'll see
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he adds my materials talk to me on the
phone before didn't remember but this
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time you saw me in person made my case
it seemed pretty interested it could be
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CS but I know you've got access to so
much capital all I need is just a little
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bit of that give me a little access a
little bit a little piece of his money
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you know and I'm pretty damn happy right
now
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you know I'm walking down the street
everyone can sense I'm happy so lay down
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there already me why is he so happy why
is he so happy I'm happy I am so pleased
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to live I'm a driven in a bit I bet a
million dollars
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September 16 1920 is a bustling morning
on the exchange just before noon
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horse-drawn wagons pulled to stop right
here
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on the corner of Wall Street and broad
moments later the wagons and sky-high
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the massive explosion killed 40 and
ripped into the house of Morgan you can
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still see the gouges in the limestone
facade it is like in a movie this is a
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secret door what do you think is the one
thing that made you so successful I
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guess it's probably just being skeptical
and curious and inquisitive about what's
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going on in the world and the
willingness or they'd eagerness to look
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at things that other people don't look
at if something is very cheap by
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definition people probably are not very
interested in and nobody's investing in
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it and frequently that's where you find
your best opportunities if there's a
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change taking place you don't do it just
because nobody's investing their
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commodities was a perfect example in the
nineteen ninety-eight everybody giggled
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when you said commodities or China they
were all drooling in talking about calm
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what I was looking at commodities in
China because I felt that's maybe where
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things were changing and where there
were opportunities so happens it was
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right so how do you see China's future
extremely bullish on the future of China
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yes the 19th century was the century of
the UK the 20th century was the century
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of the US the 21st century is going to
be the century of China whether we like
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it or not
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usually I'm in here now in 10 minutes
before the opening so I could see what's
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going on in the financial industry in
the rest of the world we can no longer
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look domestically at the u.s. world
events have placed a question mark on
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the stability of the US dollar and the
stability of the Western nations nymex
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is the largest physical commodity market
in the world and it's just not trading
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copper your trading dollars in trading
different currencies energy has an
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impact on it the stock market has an
impact on it and I have a broad array of
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markets to look at you have to utilize
all most tools right now the demand for
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copper and astronomical not so much from
the US or Europe or from the Far East
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the growth of China the growth in India
two and half billion people living in a
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part of the world that was third world
right now everything that China in India
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produces most of it goes to exports you
got to think though what's gonna happen
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when they become the consuming nation
when they start consuming their own part
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what happens to the raw goods then will
it be enough copper in the world will it
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be enough zinc and lead and tin in the
world I mean this is what makes
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commodity trading so interesting this is
where every day two different ball game
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never the same
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are you Muslim yarmulke London
originally from Pakistani sometimes when
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they hear my accident they think I'm new
and take me around the whole block and
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run up and meet many thing like either
Pakistani or Indian and then it's like
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oh you must know so-and-so in London
because I'm related to you either that
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or they will try and get me married to
one of the sons and we like you know
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have a son he looks around your age this
is perfect I Love New York I've always
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believed that so he's played the golden
sandwich opportunity and it's up to you
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to grab it I feel like I was very
sheltered when I moved him for me
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personally I've grown definitely and
I've met fantastic people here my mother
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just about have got to grips with what I
do when I first started she's like you
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know made their money just leave don't
get too greedy being about changes
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person
and she right so this is give me my new
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neighborhood I just signed the lease the
other day for a small apartment old town
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house built in 1899 I'm looking forward
to it because this is definitely a
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transition for me not so much late night
party anymore just focus on the business
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you know I'm not really fitting into the
corporate structure of investors because
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they have their little check boxes and
oh he's under 40 there goes my chance at
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getting money every day
hopefully my luck thank refresh
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obsessions and failures but the keys
that I keep learning
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you know I'm 25 years old if I don't
make a lot of money for the next two or
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three years but I learn a lot it's still
a win I can do this for the next 50
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years great thank you I'm pretty
optimistic about my future my
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organization so lean there's not a sense
of urgency like there is for most hedge
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fund managers who have their employees
salaries you know the big office I can
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wait out times when there's really not
many opportunities you keep finding
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connections keep building the track
record and I'm getting smarter a little
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richer a little fatter every single day
so not to be a cliche but the future
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really does look great
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after a lot of serious consideration I
have decided to leave my company that
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I've been left for five years there are
just so many things that I would like to
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do so many ideas that I have that I
would like to put into practice that I
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have decided to go out on my own pretty
much everything is in place essentially
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what I'll be doing is primarily raising
capital for clients and I think it
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should all work out very well
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Wall Street has been a very enriching
experience for me I feel that I had the
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opportunity to grow a lot and I'm very
excited to stay with the future home I
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just generally try to be happy
approach everything with a positive
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attitude I think that's also one of the
prerequisites for Wall Street's make the
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most out of the opportunities that you
have
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I remember I did the G glass you only
get one jig for episode attention square
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time bollocks
motherfucker now she learnt here the guy
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who has the best TN wins in life another
guy is the most toys wins the guy was
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the best hanwen hmm oh my ha ha
financial muscles baby ah
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you