Originally Posted by Dollarmansteve

I make the same mistake too. I wasn't there for the crazy crazy times like 3/4th Q 1999. The tech bubble had unwound by the time I got there.. and then sept 11th.. enron, etc.

But that end of the brokerage business is so cut-throat.. and pretty unethical. I was more interested in the technical aspects of trading, especially derivatives. Funny, my dream job was to be an OTC financial derivatives broker (can you say credit default swap market.. lol)