Liffe Floor Stories

The london international financial futures exchange was being dealt off the floor by its rivals and all it could look forward to was a slow humiliating.

Liffe floor stories.

Day one trader is the exclusive story of john sussex on his journey from son of a basildon factory worker leaving school at 16 to successful city financier and member of the liffe board. Colin ned kelly the london international financial futures and options exchange trader fined pounds 500 for abusing a member of staff was cheered by colleagues on the trading floor after. Packed full of exclusive until now unreported stories day one trader sheds new light on what motivated characters such as nick leeson and provides insight to liffe floors star traders. But anyone who thinks that the world of derivatives is just about greedy bankers who put our pensions and savings at risk is wrong.

The jokes and japes on liffe s trading floor have now been replaced by talk of sackings and salary cuts. Forty london futures traders have been temporarily put out of business after a trader lost pounds 750 000 on friday on a bet in gilt futures on the liffe market. The bell rang and i watched a scrum of dealers scramble to trade liffe s first ever contracts in a heap of frenetic energy from day one trader. Day one trader is the gripping chronicle ofthe unknown working heroes of the liffe floor who shattered a glass ceiling of elitism in the city of london.

The widow of barry lind a trader and financier who made millions on the chicago mercantile exchange and held a leading role in transforming the cme into its current form has sued the couple s longtime lawyers michael o. The catastrophic events of 2008 prove that the financial world has not learnt the lessons of my own tragic tale. Financial experts and novices alike will be gripped by sussex s account of the highs and lows of a career that spanned almost three decades in the. The game is finally up it seems for the men in coloured jackets and the very future of.

The bright side of liffe. This technology means traders no longer need to be. And anyone familiar with chicago pits will immediately find many parallels to london. Hartz and the firm of katten muchin rosenman llp alleging they helped her husband hide multiple affairs and order his estate to benefit the other women and greatly reduce.