MEMORIES OF MY $10M BLUNDER ON THE TRADING FLOOR

The most horrible moment of my working life was when I was employed on a trading floor and one day got into such a muddle that instead of buying $10m I sold them instead.

The chief foreign exchange dealer – a nasty piece of work if ever there was one – shouted at me, the whole trading room stared and I ran off to the ladies loo and wept. The shame of it all: to lose so much money by being so stupid was bone-crushingly wretched.

In the intervening 27 years I had successfully buried this memory, but last week it all came back when I watched the first episode of the BBC business reality television series, Million Dollar Traders.

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