Thoughts from a Bank Board Seat – Curious About the Trader’s View

Discussion in 'Trading' started by Clement kwok king, Aug 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM.

  1. That’s the million dollar question :thumbsup:

    In today’s world of algorithmic and model driven trading, the decision to trust or override a model isn’t binary it’s a dance between data discipline and human intuition.

    It’s not about distrusting the model it’s about knowing when the model is out of its depth.

    Veteran traders develop a sixth sense. If something feels off even if the model says “go” override it. Survival often depends on intuition.
     
  2. If OP is legit, all you have to do is to Google his name to find out which bank is sitting at.

    I wonder what the purpose of the question is. Is he going to help us in anyway?

    Do we have an infiltrated buddy that can whisper some tricks?
     
  3. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    a guy worth 40bn posts on an online website with his real name a naive question that he could have answered by a thousand people including Steve cohen or Jamie dimon.

    I reported to Baron yesterday. No reply yet.
     
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  4. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    Does anyone here trade for a bank?
     
  5. Aren’t U.S. banks prohibited from engaging in proprietary trading under the Volcker Rule?
     
  6. nz_melon

    nz_melon

    I wished, they never ceased, they only renamed the game. Program trading desk, facilitation trading, trade warehousin; or moved capital into a segregated entity, if that did not work from a regulatory standpoint then the bank entity wrote capital "guarantees" that liquidity providers use as collateral to fund the segregated entity. A million different possibilities and regulators in the US are a) too dumb, b) too slow, c) most important, completely complicit because they never wanted it to change, it was all just for the optics of the public eye, the public needed some "sacrifices" after many lost their homes and more during the GFC.

     
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  7. Businessman

    Businessman

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  8. The banks were saved using tax payer money. So wasn't the purpose to avoid speculation with downside payed for by the tax payer?
     
  9. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    What makes you say that?
     
  10. MarkBrown

    MarkBrown

    i think the guy is legit.

    i think it's admirable that he wants to get to the bottom of why trading models fail. it's a epidemic now that managed money is doing so poorly.

    bank executives have all these egg heads with phd's that are trying to apply outdated guidelines to new dynamic markets.

    many bank exec's should be wondering why they are struggling to beat buy and hold. they get a model setup, and it just falls on its face because of curve fitting. the cycle will never end until someone ask hard questions.
     
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