FX MANAGERS JW Did you ever win a motor
race ? SH
I became UK Caterham
Champion in 1995 and then progressed to the Caterham Vauxhall Series (which is the car in the photo) at Donington where I won that race. My favourite stor y, which bores my friends, is when I beat Jenson Button at a charity go karting event when he was European champion; to be fair he started in sixth position and I was at the front – I finished first, he finished second.
JW
Did you ever participate to a trading competition?
SH I did one once in Austria live
on a stage for 2 hours. What struck me was how boring
it
was for the audience with the traders fully locked on to their screens. I have never taken part in an onl ine competition and just trade my own accounts.
JW Do you feel that racing and
trading have something in common?
SH Motor racing certainly
feels a natural companion to trading for me. The intense
concentration needed for the short races and later on the patience and concentration of endurance racing seemed a good fit with trading. Making sure you know the track and also how the other drivers’ race is similar to watching the charts and the other players on the markets.
JW Does racing help you be a
better trader ? SH
I don’t know about making
one a better trader, but it was a very good release from trading as one has to get away from the screens now and then and I get totally absorbed by the car, he track and performing at top level when on race tracks.
JW In which way is trading
currencies different from trading other financial instruments ?
SH The most obvious difference
with FX is the fact that it is open for business 24/6 and when free of Central Bank inter vention, which is not always intuitive, it has probably the most efficient price transmission mechanism of any financial instrument.
JW
When and how was Arktos Global born?
JW How is the company structured
today in terms of headcounts and offices ?
SH Arktos currently has 4 team
members based at our Savile Row Office in London, myself, Nick, James
Mitchell and
Luca Bono. Compliance and administration are outsourced to ensure independence and robust risk oversight.
the
JW What do you consider as being key
positions in Management company?
SH In any company involved in
trading the risk management aspect is most important, all the way from strict adherence to risk limits through to trade
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SH Nick Bloom and I, the two
principals, met in 2006. The inception of the Arktos program was in November that year after Nick and I had spent several months
formulating of the core strateg y. the basis It came
about as a consequence of our belief that there was a need for a strategy capable of delivering performance with transparency and which properly matched investor liquidity with the liquidity of the underlying asset class.
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