This mini-interview series is to showcase some of the prominent participants of the tournament leaderboard and what propels them to be able to trade well.

This post was originally posted here. This is Nicky with username @bomfa, who is currently top 3 on the leaderboard, out of over 2,000 participants. We did a quick lookup on his tournament portfolio here and he has a return of 40.3%! We asked the questions that followed and this is what he had to say. How many years have you been trading and which markets do you usually trade? Nicky:  I have been trading the SG, HK, and US markets for around 10 years. What’s your profession?  Nicky: I am a Corporate Development Analyst. How did you start trading and what got you started? Nicky: I started trading due to my desire to achieve financial freedom as soon as possible. I aspire to start my own hedge fund one day....