I think the most interesting aspect of my early career was the time in which it happened, at the nascency of the dot com bubble. I was very lucky in that regard; but before I was able to enjoy the fruits of perfidy, I first had to deal with two market dislocations, one in 1997 and again in 1998, the latter having a breath taking and profound impact on both my harrowing fall and eventual rise.
As some of you know, I’ve decided to self publish via Amazon. I have an essay up there now, which is really just a placeholder. I intend to do more rigorous work there, documenting the things I bore witness to in the business since 1997.
I will be basing my first story, which will likely be in the ball park of 10,000-20,000 words — based off this series of posts that I published here many years ago. I’ll probably expand a lot upon my “Important Matter” posts, especially some like Ghetto Fabulous, which is a crowd favorite.
Why am I doing this and why on Amazon?
It’s simply not feasible to publish stories of that size here. Through Amazon, I could reach a much larger audience, gracing depraved people from the darkest corners of the earth with my eloquent prose.
Thus far, I’m about 7,000 words deep. I’ll probably finish up over the next week or two and then publish to Amazon. Here’s a brief snippet of a rough draft.
not horrible fly, but you are are reactionary, stream of consciousness writer. stick with what has worked for you, pre and post your political hack pulp. you are an extremely entertaining writer in the present. stick with that and the market as it stands today. or don’t as my opinion likely means squat to you. good luck.
That’s just background story. It will get lively.
and please use your trade mark language, stockfags, faggots and all that. None of that was in your snippet of the rough draft, i.e. AOL fags, faggot CEO, fucking Microsoft retards, those would be my suggestions for five star reviews.
that’s the first time I have ever clicked thumbs up on one of your posts….I usually insta-fake news for your ‘work’
Oh, and go fuck yourself.
Looking forward to your published works, Fly.
jonnybegood2
Go fuck yourself indeud. Cretin.
Very entertaining and can’t wait to find out what happened with that AOL stock you had.
Anyone who wasn’t trading in the late 90s has no idea how fuckin’ crazy things were then. AOL then would jump 20 points a day, split and jump 20 points again… week after week. It literally was like printing money.
Indeed. Dangerous times when you’re a neophyte and just learning to trade. Back in 1998, I took a $323k account up to over $1 million. By the Fall of 2001 it was back down to $300k. It sucked. Yes, wild and crazy times.
(*over $1 million by mid-2000, to clarify)
Duuude, and you didn’t cash out?! Same thing happened to me with a biotech. I woke up one day up $83,000 profit and my greed set in and lost it all. I’m still punishing myself to this very day for that.
I suppose Merlin will show up at some point to *POOF* some mofos… Looking forward to a good read dude
I agree that most interesting part is probably the time in which it happened. There’ve been a lot of good books written about that.
I love it, Fly. Cant wait to read the finished product.
75-60% payout?! I WAS AT A 40% AT MORGAN! I spent 5 years there too, no sales guys hitting the phones for me, no growth engine, just me, some shit kid at the time, trying to convince professionals to let me manage their entire nest egg.