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A day in the life of an Pro FX Trader

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by landboy, Aug 5, 2005.

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Except for the cold calling part sounds like a very interesting career path. Thanks for sharing Samson

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LOL

Yes we were arrogant jerks that's for sure.

$250000 monthly paychecks did that to a lot of people !

If you had access to the hottest IPO's getting the best clients was simply a matter of calling the trading desk or dept of a major company or fund and asking them to give you a shot if you gave them your allocation of shares.

A lot of time the institutional dept at RBC would call my manager and yell at him telling me to lay off but I never cared I just kept calling.

Mostly though I would do record searches at trust companies to see WHO owned SIZE of similiar issues and call them directly.

I never minded selling to institutions but I never felt comfortable selling to retail clients and thus left the business.
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