Former Citi trader Anton Kreil, who now acts as the Managing Partner of the Institute of Trading and Portfolio Management, gives an excellent talk from 2013 to the students at Cass Business School about the art of trading.

Some things he covers are:

• how he started out trading
• the ins and outs of the trading and banking industry
• some sound advice to undergraduates
• traits of successful traders
• the transition to computerized trading
• how he got involved in the BBC production "Million Dollar Traders" (watch)
• man vs machine
• pitfalls of various trading courses
• the development of his own trading learning material
• and the freedom of being self-employed

Watch part one:

And here are the rest:

• part two
• part three
• part four
• part five
• part six

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