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.
Nobody becomes confident by overthinking.
We become confident by doing the thing that scared us, badly at first, then less badly, then well.
The gap between who you are and who you want to be is not filled with more preparation but with more attempts.
Go make more attempts.
The amount of money you'll make is almost directly correlated to the amount of stress you can hold without crumbling.
It doesn't matter how much stress you deal with on a normal day, you just need to see through it & operate.
It’s most unfair advantage in business if you can master it.
Home “ownership” is a 30yr anchor sold as a dream
Hard to move. Hard to invest. Hard to take opportunities
Just a debt that keeps you stuck whilst the world moves on.