Stories

"That’s Impossible!"

by Ben G

That’s Impossible! As you have probably seen on our Instagram page, my Aston Martin roadster with the bloody red interior and the license plate 2....

by Ben G

Get Out When Shake and myself were young pikers on our first trading desk (The Mook Desk), we thought we were trading savages scalping names like ...

by Ben G

Cocky When I graduated college, I was lucky enough to step in a rich pile of shit, so to speak. During college I was like mostly everyone else....

by Ben G

Oncology At this point in my life, I had seen the writing on the wall, being a prop trader was a dead end business that was dying a slow death. ...

by Shake P

The BIDU Massacre Let’s take it back to when I was just a youngin’ in these trading streets. I will be the first to admit that I was one of th...

by Shake P

The OG Book Back in 2013, life on the Mook Desk was less than sweet. I was very far from being considered a successful trader and was doing wh...

by Shake P

Trump’d November 9, 2016 is a day that will live in infamy in US History as Donald Trump became the first President to win the election with n...

by Ben G

An $80,000 loss in 48 hours Earlier you read about the loser who pissed away $250,000 on penny stocks, where we watched him rid himself of the l...

by Ben G

Why The Fuck Are You Here? It’s 9:26am on a Monday morning in 2013. Our morning meeting had just ended and let’s just say it was wildly unproduc...

by staff account

Earnings Delight It was a few months into my rookie year of trading (Trading Experts Mentor Mo) and was somehow profitable. Looking back at thos...

by Ben G

Taken for $10,000, twice in 1 week.... It's the first week of the new year, like most people I was setting goals for the year ahead -- “New Ye...

by Shake P

The Billion Dollar Burger On new issue day for a big name IPO, our desk was always howling. Shake Shack had just gone public on the Nasdaq at ...