It takes sometimes a certain amount of courage to take risk and crisis markets and fast

markets are the time when you make money, right?

Like when it's slow and quiet, it's just harder to make money.

Volatility is what you want as a trader.

Hi everyone and welcome to my life in four trades.

I'm Andreas Larsen from the Real Vision community and it is my pleasure to host one of the

best traders that I know Brent Donnelly for a discussion on his life in four trades today.

Brent, welcome to the show.

Hey Andreas, great to see you.

Yeah, it's good to see you too Brent.

Brent, you're currently the president of Spectra Markets but you have a long career behind

you in, for example, FX trading in top tier banks in the US but before we get to the

four trades that sort of painted your life in trading, I would like to get a brief introduction

to you as a trader and how you got into finance.

So please enlighten us a bit on your career.

Sure.

So I, yes, as you said, I have been a spot FX trader for most of my life but I did some

other stuff in between.

I was trading my own money for five years trading single names during the dot com bubble

and I traded at a hedge fund for three years as well.

So I've kind of traded like a lot of different capital sizes which I think has given me a

different perspective on trading but you're right, my specialty has been FX and the way that

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