Those few who have pierced the veil of his alterego laud Andrewunknown as a genuine polymath of market esoterica. An active trader for nigh unto 7 years, AU cut his teeth (and bled profusely) muddling about with stocks. After attaining some experience, humility (or so he thought) and discontent, he then pressed on to stock index futures where he primarily traded the YM and ES e-mini contracts.
With eventual success coming about there, Andrew began to dabble with spot Forex in 2005 and soon after began to trade it exclusively. These days, he primarily trades the JPY crosses (especially GBP/JPY) and a menagerie of other pairs.
An avid technical analyst, Andrew contemplates getting his CMT certification off-and-on. It is commonly believe he would kill that exam if he looked at it.
Self-described as “a rigorously pedantic curator of hominid language games” (whatever that means), he splits his weekdays doing work for a massive financial institution (no one knows what or where, exactly), retail forex trading and as an occasional substitute integral calculus teacher at The French School for Prodigiously Gifted Bonobos, or “The Ecole Nationale d’Administration”.
Common Misconception: though it’s true that Andrewunknown battles and freestyles and scratches up stacks of wax alongside the dopest MCs and DJs around (many, many hidden talents here), he is not to be confused with…
So what happened? Did you go behind the curtain and out the back door?
Comment by The Lonely Trader — September 6, 2008 @ 2:12 am
Hey Jay,
Thanks for checking up on me. No, I’m still here pulling the levers behind the scenes; but besides some analytical snippetry posted at babypips, I haven’t had much opportunity to write. Well, that’s not entirely accurate: after all, why post on fora but not on my very own blog? Probably because I feel compelled to blog extensive missives for every post, whereas forum posts (mine, at least) are relatively brief and inconsequential. Fortunately my silence isn’t the product of that thing which kills so many trading blogs; in fact, I’ve had the better part of the right side of the market since things became a bit hairy in late July. In fact, I’m working on a newer discretionary model that has fared well in live beta mode: more to come on the topic soon.
Other than that: family life (baby on the way, now days from arrival!), work (an atypically…”exciting” summer in the equity markets) and some travel have made room for trading, but not for the time I like to (or feel I have to) commit to writing about trading. Too many all-nighters obsessively crafting philosophy and theology (you didn’t think my educational background was in finance, did you?) papers have made their mark, I fear. I know from reading your own blog (which I’ve generally kept up with) that you can empathize with managing time such that there’s a sufficient amount of it left over to trade.
Anyway, I give my word this time: I’m coming back. Thanks again for stopping by.
Comment by andrewunknown — September 12, 2008 @ 9:23 pm
Good good. Glad to read you are well. Hope your groin is feeling better and you’ve given up black satin for something a bit more dadderly.
Comment by The Lonely Trader — September 19, 2008 @ 12:16 am
Okay, once again, where the hell did you go? It’s been months man! I refuse to go to BabyPips…and anyway, you’ve probably not posted there either.
Comment by The Lonely Trader — June 30, 2009 @ 10:46 pm
I thought you headed off into the sunset for awhile as well, but here you are knocking on my only occasionally answered door. Good to hear from you! I’ve been doing a bit of Twittering at twitter.com/myusername (fill in the blank): 140 characters only, so the compulsion to write on and on is excluded; but otherwise haven’t been making the rounds of any blogs, really, for a couple of months. Think I’ll get back to it, though, and to posting as well: Twitter’s brevity certainly has it’s drawbacks.
Trading has been and is going nicely. Part of my hiatus is finally acting on the long-ago acknowledged realization that the less timely “analysis” offered up by others that I read, the clearer view I have of the market. Some of the typical bumps and bruises aside, I did some very good work the first half and feel of broken a bit of a plateau I’d run into….
I’ll stop over a bit later….
Comment by andrewunknown — July 5, 2009 @ 8:21 pm
Andrew its leslie
Havent heard from you in a long while…launched our own managed account service with brokerage…take a look
http://www.osirisfx.com
Cheers,
Leslie
Comment by leslie — November 9, 2009 @ 1:39 pm