One from Nassim Taleb, former prop trader turned author/philosopher: “My lesson from Soros is to start every meeting at my boutique by convincing everyone that we are a bunch of idiots who know nothing and are mistake-prone, but happen to be endowed with the rare privilege of knowing it.”Second is from a hedge fund manager that no has ever heard of named Seth Klarman, but who has done well for himself, if you consider running one of the ten most profitable hedge funds ever doing well. 

How is the Japanese economy doing?

Megan Luckily the math part isnt too high level just addition, subtraction, some mulitplication and division but we as a community can all help you through it.Leave the complicated math for the wall street quantative analysts and derivative traders.

Quicken loans sells their NPN's in pools on a quarterly level that we just made a bid on.Often times, we will also get large institutional traders who have bought large pools from the big 5, who have one off's or smaller traunches of assets that we can pick up as well from this same marketing.  

They show up and ask three questions and then get one negative response, go crazy, and tomorrow they are in a day trader forum.

So, if you and I knew the Fed was going to start cutting the fed funds rate, the traders who do it for a living did as well.

As ravens fly across the sky,I pass agreements swiftly by.No need to claim the haunted land,Just find another eager hand.A trader's art without a trace,What practice runs this spectral race?"

On the stereo they cued up a Taylor Swift playlist, songs about separation and loss and moving on.Early in the evening an order came in from a Japanese spot.

I was a former trader on Wall Street and now work at a property tech startup.

I know that everyone talks about the declining value of Japanese Real Estate.