THIS IS HOW — AND WHY — I BECAME A QUANT / MACRO TRADER

Based on real life story...

I didn’t grow up wanting to be a trader.
I didn’t have a mentor on Wall Street.
I didn’t have a Bloomberg terminal, or a trust fund, or insider access.

What I had was something much more uncomfortable:

I kept losing money in ways that didn’t make sense.

The First Lie I Believed

Like most people, I believed the first lie finance sells you:

“If you learn enough …