TABLE OF CONTENTS
Best Trading Cities
June/July 2007
Trade Here Now!
From Amsterdam to Zurich, Beantown to Buenos Aires: presenting our inaugural ranking of the 50 greatest trading cities in the world.
Three Rules
Financial-futures phenom Paul Redmond gets his ticks in big batches by sticking to his trusted game plan.
1,001-Horse Stampede
Would the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 prove too hot for even a Wall Street equities trader to handle?
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Hot News, Gossip and Industry Dish
Insider Info
By
Rich Blake
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Leah McGrath Goodman
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David Moss
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Lowlifes in Pinstripes
Reads
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A new fiction collection examines the seamy side of the Street.
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Tonic Ideal
Pretty Boy
By
Cristina Velocci
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A swingin’ City he-salon that caters to traders.
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Housing Starts
My Charity
By
David Moss
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Geneva Trading’s Gordon Hurley pours his sweat equity into building homes for El Salvador’s poor.
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UK Open
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UK My Charity
Livermore's Cotton Club
Coolest Trade Ever
By
Andrew Barber
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How Woodrow Wilson picked apart the boldest ag trade of all time.
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$6,000 Hot Dog
Buzz Words
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\siks thau-zend dä-ler hät-dog\ noun: An ill-timed departure from floor or screen.
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Buzzwords UK
Partial Success
Material World
By
Cristina Sousa
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Luxury goods, half off! If full ownership isn’t for you, Fractional Life is here to help.
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Their Generation
Tunes
By
Hilary Lewis
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Revisiting the original rock festival, four decades on.
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The Boy and the Bubble
Who Knew?
By
Andrew Barber
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Whatever happened to infamous teenage stock tout Jonathan Lebed?
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Scent of a Trader
5 Grand Well-Spent
By
Doug Donaldson
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David Beckham, Prince, Liz Taylor . . . and you! Enter the world of signature cologne, one HEADY whiff at a time.
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One Angry Man
Doctor's Orders
By
Cristina Velocci
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Is your temper killing you?
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UK Health
Oh, Maia
Buy This Island
By
Eric Capper
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Who wants to be a Brazillionaire?
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Luxury
High Low
Street Cred
Performance
By
Rich Blake
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A decade ago, Peter Lupoff left Wall Street to start a record label. Now he’s trading again — and his hip-hop experience is paying off.
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UK High/Low
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UK Tunes
Three Rules
Three Rules
By
Hilary Lewis
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Financial-futures phenom Paul Redmond gets his ticks in big batches by sticking to his trusted game plan.
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UK Three Rules
Cash Money
The Trade
By
Jonathan Hoenig
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Currency futures have emerged as the ultimate trading milieu, offering 24-hour action, an abundance of products and endless strategic triggers. Thank you, volatility.
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UK High/Low
Ice Capades
The Ask
By
Leah McGrath Goodman
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Instigating upheaval, upending the status quo, enjoying exponential growth — where exactly is the ICE heading? Its iconoclastic leader,
Jeffrey Sprecher, elaborates.
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UK High/Low
Position Police
Risk Reward
By
Rich Blake
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Monitoring trading risk is a complex, imperfect science that confounds even the best practitioners. Meet two men determined to rule the land of the untamed.
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Meditation Man
Life After Trading
By
Cristina Velocci
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How Matthew Schojam traded his long positions for the lotus position and equities for inner peace.
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UK High/Low
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UK Health
Value Betting
Card Shark
By
Johnny Chan
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Any capable trader can profit from a good position. The masters know how to play for maximum extraction.
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The Card Shark UK
Vengeance Collar
The Head Coach
By
Doug Hirschhorn
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Whether you realize it or not, sometimes trading becomes a revenge
ploy. Avoid this trap — because in your zeal to get even, you might
end up getting crushed.
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The Head Coach UK
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UK High/Low
Crunch Time
The Beat of the Street
By
Charles Gasparino
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The next two months are crucial for the NYSE, with some predicting
that the specialist firms might bolt by Labor Day. Could this really be the end of the floor?
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UK High/Low
Directions
Trade Here Now!
Trade Here
By
Rich Blake
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David Moss
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From Amsterdam to Zurich, Beantown to Buenos Aires: presenting our inaugural ranking of the 50 greatest trading cities in the world.
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The List UK
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Travel UK
Best Trading Cities: #1 Chicago
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Best Trading Cities: #2 London
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Best Trading Cities: #3 New York
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Best Trading Cities: #4 Dubai
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Best Trading Cities: #5 Miami
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Best Trading Cities: #6 Boston
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Best Trading Cities: #7 Dublin
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Best Trading Cities: #8 Los Angeles
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Best Trading Cities: #9 Toronto
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Best Trading Cities: #10 Sao Paulo
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Best Trading Cities: #11-20
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Best Trading Cities: #21-30
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Best Trading Cities: #31-40
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Best Trading Cities: #41-50
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Black Gold Rush
By
Leah McGrath Goodman
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It will go down in history as one of the all-time great trading paydays. Now, as the dust settles on the NYMEX’s initial public offering, we reveal who won, who lost — and why one of the last great bastions of open-outcry will never be the same.
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Links of Luxury
Golf
By
Ty Wenger
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For a man like you (read: stressed-out, demanding, cash-rich), not just any golf resort will do. You need fairways like carpets, pillows like clouds — and a surfeit of world-class links capable of quenching the most obsessive-compulsive golfing habit.
Behold the world’s MOST CLASSIC resorts . . . for traders.
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Style Points
Fashion
By
Leah McGrath Goodman
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Winning isn’t everything, right? You’ve also got to look good
while doing it — especially when locked in competition with a disarming beauty. Don one of these elegant tuxes and consider yourself well-attired for the battle of the sexes.
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Fashion UK
Close
1,001-Horse Stampede
Wheels
By
Glenn Derene
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Would the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 — the world’s most insane exercise in automotive overkill — prove too hot for even a Wall Street equities trader to handle?
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UK Wheels
Wrist Reward
Watch List
By
Norma Buchanan
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If you’re going to engage in some highly volatile pursuits, take one of these virtually indestructible timepieces with you.
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UK Close
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UK Watch List
Mini-Gulf
High Flyer
By
Robert Goyer
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The new midsize Gulfstream G150 proves that (on exceedingly rare occasions) bigger isn’t always better.
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UK Close
Big Swinging Sticks
Gadgets
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Want to assume an extremely long position off the tee? These new geometric drivers deliver all the leverage you’ll ever need.
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GadgetsUK
Smoke Bombs
Liquidity
By
Jefferey Lindenmuth
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Open the windows and stay low to the ground when pouring this inferno of smoky scotches.
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