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Z is a Paddy Power employee. He spent 10 years being something small in 'the City' before moving to Ireland and has been trading spread bets, on and off, for the last 4 years.

Right now Z is trading occasionally with the aim of supplementing his ‘day-job’ income. His current trading strategy means he tries to:
a) trade just one market (the FTSE)
b) make relatively few trades
c) make lower-risk trades
d) not let the sleep-loss caused by his new baby girl trash his judgement
We’re In The Press. Ooops. Or Hooray?
Posted by Z on April 23, 2008

Wow. Little old paddypowertrader made the headlines today. Check a few of these out from the BBC, the Guardian, the Scotsman, Sharecast and even Reuters.


Z is a Paddy Power employee. He spent 10 years being something small in 'the City' before moving to Ireland and has been trading spread bets, on and off, for the last 4 years.

Right now Z is trading occasionally with the aim of supplementing his ‘day-job’ income. His current trading strategy means he tries to:
a) trade just one market (the FTSE)
b) make relatively few trades
c) make lower-risk trades
d) not let the sleep-loss caused by his new baby girl trash his judgement
Too Funny Not To Put Up Here
Posted by Z on February 26, 2008

OK, it’s not often I do this. But this primer on the sub-prime fiasco is too funny to not share.

Once you click on the link above you may need to click on ‘Open’ to run it, then use your mouse or space bar to move through the slides.

Mozilla Firefox users won’t be able to open the file but you can download a zip file from here. Make sure you save the file though before you try to open it.


Garden Gnome spent many years as a small-cap fund manager before his need to to spend more time with his lettuces got the better of him.
GG now spends rainy days trading equities and currencies. He likes to use a combination of technical analysis and news flow to make trading decisions.
Just Too Funny To Ignore …
Posted by Garden Gnome on January 24, 2008

It’s not often the Paddy Power Traders stick a post up just with nothing but a funny in it. However this one was just too good to ignore.

This is an extract from Risk Magazine, one of the most respected Derivatives industry magazines around.


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