> Back in 2017, I was a financial trader working 15-hour days. I’d stare at screens waiting for market-moving news and wake up at 3am to check my positions.
Do you think that your background in trading has given you any edge as a value investor? Even if it's just an intuitive feeling for mispricing and catalysts?
Or would you have been as well-served using all that time to play jai alai instead of looking at charts?
> Back in 2017, I was a financial trader working 15-hour days. I’d stare at screens waiting for market-moving news and wake up at 3am to check my positions.
Do you think that your background in trading has given you any edge as a value investor? Even if it's just an intuitive feeling for mispricing and catalysts?
Or would you have been as well-served using all that time to play jai alai instead of looking at charts?
It helped me appreciate how powerful value-investing is for compounding money so safely and consistently.
I might never have found value investing if I wasn’t so traumatised by making a living from trading.
I did enjoy trading when I was younger but hated the idea of staring at screens for the rest of my life once I’d made decent money.
Although I’d never go back, I do feel it gave me valuable context for what I do now.