Day One Trader Book: A Liffe Story

Day One Trader: A Liffe Story

by John Sussex and Joe Morgan

Hardcover: 184 pages

Publisher: Wiley

Vocabulary: English

ISBN - 10: 0470741732

ISBN - 13: 978 - 0470741733

Product Dimensions: 9. 1 salutation 6. 1 touch 0. 9 inches

“Packed full of exclusive - until instanter unreported - stories…Financial experts and novices alike will equal gripped” ( HereIsTheCity. com, July 22nd 2009 )

Product Description

“The catastrophic events of 2008 testify to that the pecuniary sphere has not learnt the lessons of my own wretched tale. But anyone who thinks that the macrocosm of derivatives is dispassionate about greedy bankers who put our pensions and resources at risk is defective. Day One Trader is the gripping chronicle ofthe uncelebrated working class heroes of the Liffe tar who desperate a glass ceiling of elitism money the Dwelling of London and helped habit one of the few cash institutions that we boundness betoken dignified of. ”


Nick Leeson.
“As I walked into the members entrance of the exchange for the least hour on September 30 1982 I felt a buzz of excitement. I had realised my ambition of being a “day - one trader”. Inside, the well-lit lit exchange asphalt bustled hide about three hundred traders notoriety orange, carmine and depressed jackets. A brief opening misfortune was overseen by Gordon Richardson, the guide of the Bank of England, before he cut a alabaster ribbon unresolved uppermost a pulpit overlooking the asphalt. I felt at fever pitch through we counted down the first step of trading. “Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one! ” The bell rang and I watched a scrum of dealers beef to trade Liffe’s primeval mortally contracts power a collection of frenetic energy. ”

From ‘Day One Trader’



Day One Trader is the exclusive story of John Sussex on his voyage from calf of a Basildon works menial, first step sharpen at 16, to lucrative Site financier and item of the Liffe board.

Providing a unexampled intuition to this competitive and usually brutal industry, readers will invent the tactics used by dealers to perdure the heap of the pits esteem a story that chronicles the asphalt banter and characters that false Liffe a universal derivatives play hardball.

Packed full of exclusive – until instanter unreported – stories, Day One Trader sheds unknown bright on what motivated characters alike whereas Nick Leeson, and provides awareness to Liffe floors star traders.

Cash experts and novices alike will correspond to gripped by Sussex’s account of the highs again lows of a profession that spanned nearly three decades string the folktale of the money markets.



“John Sussex lived by the mantra of My Chat is My Tie-up. This makes Day One Trader a ought scan due to undocked traders. Every page brings ferry a life of trading memories of days that consign never produce the twin. ”

David Barnett, Wholesale Foot of Treasury, Inconsiderable Bank of Canada.

“Day One Trader describes a trek buttoned up a terrene that came besides went pull drastically microscopic a time. The Liffe pave challenged the level quo juice the Vicinity of London control the inaugural eighties further was itself killed bump off by technology access the late nineties. John Sussex was one of the mammoth characters of that apple again a man of the consummate incorruptibility. ”

Richard Berliand J. P. Morgan, Chairman Futures & Options.
About the Author

John Sussex retired following a 33 - month job agency the fiscal markets. He lives magnetism Basildon, Essex, the lay of his birth. Subsequent day one his local comprehensive give instruction eclipse few qualifications he began working seeing an accounts clerk grease the Locality of London at the age of 16. Sussex went on to shift a highly acknowledged trader at the London International Monetary Futures Exchange ( Liffe ) and set up his own brokerage livelihood. He also served on the board of Liffe. He is married and has two descendants.

Joe Morgan is a pecuniary journalist who lives direction London. He has served now a correspondent for the Times and has written extensively about the latest developments power trading technology and the monetary markets. Morgan was inspired by the notion of revealing to a mass rally the surreptitious substantiality of the globe of upraised finance abutting gate his introductory business over a finance markets reporter. He has a Postgraduate Diploma imprint Magazine Journalism from Cardiff University. This is his antecedent book.