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Visualizing The Prince of Wall Street

By The Prince ⋅ January 14, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

After a long week of skiing in Aspen, The Prince is back for busy week of commentary (more on the trip later).  As much as The Prince hates housecleaning some is in order.  The Prince has been loving the recent comments this week on Seeking Alpha and DealBreaker.  On blogs he believes hate is always better than indifference even if The Prince wants to be loved.  How ironic that Machiavelli would write in The Prince that, "It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved."  While, The Prince isn’t feared, yet, he certainly isn’t feeling the love.  To all those busy readers taking time out to offer The Prince some "constructive criticism" or get a good laugh in on him remember that Machiavelli also wrote "Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."  So I must be doing something right.

When he wrote the technical trading post critical of TA he knew that it would get people going and he plans to revisit the topic soon in order to respond to some of the emails/comments.  There are certainly some misconceptions floating around out there about the purpose of his pseudonym.  Quite frankly, The Prince was pretty surprised how many readers suggested he learn some humility.  Please understand that writing in the third person and The Prince of Wall Street alias are nothing more than exaggerated caricature of an overconfident egomaniacal junior financier.  The man behind The Prince is much more humble and aware of his current low place in the Wall Street pecking order.  Yet, somehow reading about the man behind The Prince isn’t as much fun.  People love spectacle and that is what aesthetic of The Prince provides.  To return to Machiavelli, "To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people."

Many reviews of this site have asked me to share more information about myself and my life.  I will be doing more of that as time goes on but my first priority is protecting my identity.  I’m sure my future employer would not be ecstatic about this blog even though everything I write here is completely legal and above board.  It is just a risk that most banks would rather not have on their balance sheet, if you know what I mean.  So, The Prince must return to Niccolo’s words again when he says, "Never was anything great achieved without danger."   The Prince is not Vayner for those of you that put that guess forward, although The Prince does find him hysterical.  The Prince knows his readers are thinking enough with the cheesy Machiavelli lines, so here is some more info on The Prince.

Many commentators have attacked The Prince as a rich snob getting what he wants through daddy’s money and connections.  In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.  Let’s set the record straight.  Every job The Prince has ever been offered was the result of interviewing and his record.  In response to the suggestion that The Prince is living off his parents wealth, both his parents are social workers living an unremarkable middle class existence.  Can you taste the irony in The Prince’s choice of career?  His parents did not contribute money to his private school education.  The Prince won scholarships, used loans, worked jobs and built websites to meet his tuition payments.  He went to a public high school.  The Prince attained his first job at age 13 at a golf retail store.  He worked there until he was 18 selling golf clubs and building high-end custom golf clubs.  Almost everything The Prince learned about sales he learned on the floor of the shop selling golf clubs to the executives who frequented the shop after playing golf near their second homes in Aspen.  His first job on Wall Street was the result of six interviews.  His last summer job was attained through a stellar recommendation from his former boss and 30-45 minute interviews with everyone in his new group.