This is Anton Kreil.
A kid from Liverpool, raised by a single mom with no money, who walked into Goldman Sachs at 20 and walked out of Wall Street at 28 with the kind of resume nobody believes is real.
His prop book at Goldman grew from $25M to over $400M in four years.
Lehman headhunted him in 2004.
JP Morgan paid him a fortune to run their global pharma, biotech, and chemicals trading franchises in 2006.
He retired in May 2007, months before the entire system blew up.
The 16 minutes below is the closest thing I've seen to an actual trader explaining how he thinks.
No fluff, no charts, just the framework that made three of the biggest banks on Wall Street fight to hire him.
The reason government programs are so inefficient is that, unlike a commercial company, the feedback loop for improvement is broken, because they have a state-mandated monopoly and can’t go out of business if customers are unhappy.
No matter how bad the service is at your DMV (sorry to pick on DMVs), you still have to use your DMV, because it’s a monopoly.
As we approach Ramadan let us purify our hearts and intention. Live humbly no matter how rich you are, think positively, forgive people and pray for the best outcome always.