The Treasure HunterQ: Can you tell us about how you start your trading day now that
you trade as a customer? Do you read news, do you rely mostly on
your back-tested models?
A: I trade a lot of foreign markets, so on a typical day, I wake
up at weird hours. I wake up about two in the morning and I look
at the market to see what’s been happening, see any news, what
could be changing in the world or in the commodities or shares
that I’m trading. Then I jump in about an hour later and I start
executing stuff in the foreign markets.
Q: Do you read local papers?
A:Ohyeah.
Q: So your focus is still very commodity driven, this is your core
domain of expertise?
A: Yes.
Q: When you are talking about foreign markets, are you talking
about foreign commodities markets? Do you look at foreign equity
markets, but sort of find commodity themes within there as well?
A: That’s what I’ll do. It will be either foreign commodity markets
or usually domestic or foreign share markets that have a commodity
theme to it.
Q: So you’re reading the news and you’ve been trading an hour
into it. Now are you focused and sitting in front of screen for the
whole time?
A: Yes, without a doubt.