I was standing in line at the post office the other day waiting to collect a parcel when I decided to google the advantages of consuming heroin by injection through the eyeballs. Then I convinced myself to do something less idle and break down my trading principles in a blog post, only to discover at the end of my piece that I could just as easily have been writing about something entirely different with the substitution of a few important words. I have therefore completely rewritten it to incorporate that juxtaposition.

Traders. You know the type. Greed is good and money never sleeps. Wall Street bad boys. The ones who think they're above regulation and compliance. These are the cowboys you see huddled conspiratorially in the VIP section of the club on Friday nights, models and bottles, whatever. Make your hurried excuses to disappear when you see the smooth operator ......