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Originally Posted by yys
I worked out of the Kaszas branch on Dwight's team for about a year. I was on course to take over part of his book by now, which is rather large, but he had a falling out with my connection to nesbitt and I got caught in the middle. Moved over to the newlands branch in '04 and worked with a couple younger guys, who had formed a team, cold calling the likes of Onex and pretty much every listed company in the area. I was quite successful at getting us in the door but the guys I worked with weren't closing fast enough for me and I decided to leave. Onex offered up 100,000,000 for BA in 10,000,000 orders. Unfortunatly the desk downstairs could never come up with any paper; go figure. That was our in to get in on any Onex stock purchases. What a gravy train that would have been.
Not sure if Horst Mueller was with Dwight when you were Kaszas branch? Man was a technical genius. I had to put together his reports; I still have some(resource supercycle from '02). This guy called every major stock market move since the 70's and he had his daily morning market updates from his CIBC days to prove it.
Who were you working with, Steve Kaszas?
He ended up losing the branch to Dwight over some improper trades. The mighty Joe Quinn ended up with the office beside Tinsdale.
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Yep Horst was there when I was there. I didn't work for Kaszas, I worked as an assistant with a younger guy who was a friend of mine (last name Pakdil) after his former parter left. We were pushing managed money, estate planning, tax strategies and new issues on Trust Units (most units had 5% juice up front with no load to the investor.. these kept the commissions rolling in). We had one guy who was a pretty agressive currency trader, that was fun... at least I got to deal with some of the traders downstairs.. good experience. I actually came up with a marketing plan to offer our services through Funeral homes to generate leads
My interest in that side of the business waned.. it's pure selling, deal making and hand holding. Being into the technical analysis and trading.. specifically futures. options and futures options.. all my CSI education was to be a derivatives trader.. or at least work with a broker who specialized in commodities and derivatives... but I was too young and didn't stick around long enough to follow through on it.