When I was starting out in the brokerage business, I bounced around from firm to firm in search of riches. This one place I was at was especially seedy. One day, a new broker was seated next to me. I was just a punk kid, with zero prospects, but lots of fire in my heart. Anyway, he was an older Russian dude with a thick accent, sort of weird looking. He sat down and introduced himself and made all sorts of proclamations about his business. He said he had 500 clients and did 150k gross per month. Hell, I didn’t know what the fuck he was talking about, so I just ignored him and continued “dialing for dollars.”
He plopped a comically large stack of leads on his desk, declaring “these are my clients.” Shit, from my vantage point, they just looked like leads. Right away I though “this fucker is a lunatic.”
He stepped away for a second, apparently off to take a leak at the firms bullshit bathroom. Fifteen minutes later the office manager came over to his desk, rummaging through and gathering personal belongings. Lo and behold, on the very same day this fucker was hired, he passed out on firms bullshit bathroom floor, heroin needle stuck in arm, straight up dope fiend style. Ha!
It gets better.
The brokers (sharks) who worked there saw this as an opportunity and took EVERYTHING from this guy’s desk, down to the last lead. It sort of looked like a pack of hyenas scrounging for wilder-beast leftovers. When the old Russian dude came back the next day for his stuff, all that was left were nice send off notes from the gentlemen in the boardroom.
For the day, I lost money. But now I’m off to celebrate anyway. I’ll make that shit back tomorrow.
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Was this the firm with “ghetto fabulous”?
Nah, that was a different guy. Ghetto fab did 250k in gross commish per month. Hence he declared himself to be “ghetto fabolous.”
I don’t know how you could have lost money for the day.
The Fly does not lose. even when you do, you win.
so go to the bathroom and pass out.
cheers
Ah yes, I know this man. He was my secretary of the posterior for some time. Some guy named “Putin”.
-Moh
(laughter) ri-donk-ulous.
damn
Don’t tell me…. you used to work for Dewey Skrewm & Howe, right?
Ha! Good story. Why would someone be sitting in the bullpen if he did 150k a month?
Nice volume sucking up the new shares of AGNC and CIM, 10x and 2.5x
Still would want to be out before June, and my CIM is coming down from its high on a 3 cent miss.
This ain’t Russian, but close enough, right ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HPTBzp75nQ
Reprehensible Video ! …………………… Any good Polish jokes ?
why do polish dogs have flat noses…………………………………………….from chasing parked cars
peesda leesda kurots
Volume on CIM ended beyond triple, and the volume on AGNC 12x !
Here’s GoRemy’s Tubo Tax video if you’ve never seen it :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBSnWlpTPSk
Fly rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M. Get the money, dolla dolla bill ya’ll…
MOTR up 12.59 % today!
And up 6% in after hours trading with pretty good volume!
The more I read “Trading in the Zone” the more I can see how and why The Fly is such a successful trader. Thanks for putting this site together, and letting us see the master in action!
So how were the “leads” he left on your desk?