http://www.anshumanmishra.com Anshuman Mishra on life, politics, finance and business Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:34:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's how it pans out. Your horse has bolted, so you get up from your bed, frag the steward who told you it's run off, throw all the other stewards into jail, slaughter your neighbor's horses, declare that horses are henceforth deemed illegal and no family in the local community can ... http://www.anshumanmishra.com/2010/01/25/the-new-rules-for-wall-street-explained/ It has been a year since I left behind the safe cocoon of technology development for the turbulence and chaos of the global financial markets, joining a prominent Indian proprietary trading firm where I traded American and European equity index derivatives. Though most people who knew me well were aghast ... http://www.anshumanmishra.com/2009/07/06/what-i-learnt-about-life-and-the-markets-as-a-derivatives-trader-i/ The time for grand gestures and flourishes of the pen is over. We live in an age of acute compression now, where full-blown ideas need to be expressed in 140 characters, where soundbites take the place of cogent arguments, where blogs are the new newspapers. I used to sporadically maintain another ... http://www.anshumanmishra.com/2009/07/04/reboot/