
Chapter 5
Trading, dealing and investment
T
he ‘dealing room’ is to many people what the financial markets
are all about. A noisy, pressure-filled place where only a ‘certain’
type of person can survive and, until comparatively recently, that
meant mean, confident, strong-willed, young, men mis-behaving!
This kind of image and generalization is, not surprisingly, far off the
mark. Yes, there are many young, arrogant and noisy dealers, but that
is hardly unique to financial markets, and the antics of certain
professional footballers and offspring of the famous spring to mind.
Certainly, some dealers are known to ‘relax’ by playing hard in the
clubs and bars ...