I’ve always had a deep-running admiration for those people whose approach to generating an income would be classified more as higher risk routes, many of whom I sort of came into contact with while still working formally in the corporate sector as a financial consultant. I mean I always had the safety net of some employers above me who are responsible for the rainmaking while my efforts contributed to the profitability, but people like those who identify as self-employed traders and the likes are truly brave souls in my book.

Don’t get me wrong — the rewards can be really great if one chooses to go that route and to a certain extent you could say I’ve since joined those ranks a good ten years ago by deciding to go this financial consultancy thing solo. I’m still not as brave as someone like a self-funded day-trader however, or a micro day-trader who perhaps operates a trading blog where they share all their trading efforts and then perhaps gets some interested investors to put some of their own money into their little fledgling micro-hedge fund.

I don’t think I could ever be that guy and to make use of what is perhaps a very famous example, the likes of Tim Sykes comes to mind as a great success story in that regard, along with a range of other interesting and pivotal characters he interacted with on the show he was featured on, Wall Street Warriors.

With my own financial consultancy thriving somewhat because of the fact that I pretty much had clients lined up long before I made the leap to go it myself, I kind of built up a nice little pile of some cash which I decided to invest in a rather unconventional way, with this investment falling more in line with what I earlier referred to as higher risk income generation routes.

So what I decided to do was start a little micro-hedge fund — and I mean “micro” here in the truest sense of the word because it’s like a sneeze compared to the tropical cyclone that is an established, big-time hedge fund.

I’m quite happy to report that the high-risk / high-reward ratio I took with this approach at starting up my own little micro hedge fund is so far working out quite well and working in my favour, although I’m more interested in the lessons learned at this stage. So the one major lesson of many learned is that the financial markets are a lot like gambling at something like an online casino.

Why do I say so? Well one of the “traders” I managed to rope in to do some of the CFD (Contract for Differences) trading for the micro hedge fund doesn’t trade CFDs at all! What he does is employ a baccarat squeeze strategy he learned in the financial sector to engage in a range of online casino games and the consistency with which he manages to rake in some rather impressive profits is quite baffling to say the least.

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Hi Im Eddie. Ive been working in finance for most of my life so I thought I would start to show some or my learnings. Hope you find it useful. I have dogs too and cats. When Im not feed them Im running.