{"id":191,"date":"2012-12-19T15:50:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T15:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turneyduff2.dev\/2012\/12\/19\/what-it-really-means\/"},"modified":"2012-12-19T15:50:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T15:50:37","slug":"what-it-really-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/19\/what-it-really-means\/","title":{"rendered":"What it Really Means…"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first started on Wall Street in 1994, I knew less than nothing. It was embarrassing. But as the years went on I finally figured out what things REALLY MEAN\u2026
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\n* \u201cSooooo, are we still on for tonight?\u201d
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\nReally means – I still have stripper glitter stuck on my neck from last night and I\u2019d prefer it if you would cancel.
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* \u201cI gotta hop\u201d Really means \u2013 Leave me alone I\u2019m reading www.danzatap.com<\/a>
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\n* \u201cWould you like 4 Mets tickets this weekend?\u201d Really means \u2013 You are my absolute last resort and these tickets landed in my lap when the back office guy\u2019s sister didn\u2019t want them.
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\n* \u201cI treat your orders just like it\u2019s my kid\u2019s college money.\u201d Really means \u2013 I\u2019ve really botched this order up and pleasedon\u2019t cut me off.
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\n* \u201cHey can you call me on the outside.\u201d Really means \u2013 I have the most insane hooker story for you.
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\n* \u201cI\u2019m jammed up.\u201d Really means \u2013 Go haunt a house and leave me alone.
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\n*\u201cHey can I call you at home tonight?\u201d Really means \u2013 I have a job offer, but it\u2019s dependent on you trading a million dollars in commissions with me next year.
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\n\u201cIs it allergy season?\u201d Really means \u2013 I did a lot of cocaine last night so please stop staring at me every time I sniffle.
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\n* \u201cI caught another seller.\u201d Really means \u2013 My market maker might be the worst trader on the street, sorry about your forthcoming report.
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\n*\u201cDoes anyone have the NY Post?\u201d Really means \u2013 I\u2019m going to be in the bathroom for a really long time. Can you watch my orders?
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\n* \u201cWe aren\u2019t allowed to open any new accounts, but try back in six months.\u201d Really means \u2013 you should leave the firm you are working for – Immediately\u2026
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\n* \u201cLet\u2019s do a breakfast.\u201d Really means \u2013 I\u2019m a recovering alcoholic, an active alcoholic or an aspiring alcoholic and I don\u2019t want you to see me at night.
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\n* \u201cWe got 25k MSFT for sale.\u201d Really means \u2013 I\u2019m living proof that there should be more cuts on Wall Street.
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\n* \u201cWe should get Justin Bieber tickets and bring your kids.\u201d Really means \u2013 I will do ANYTHING for an order; see how wide I can open my mouth\u2026
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\n* \u201cBobby isn\u2019t in yet, he\u2019s in a meeting.\u201d Really means \u2013 Were the f&ck is Bobby?
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\n* \u201cLast night when I was looking at my charts I noticed a correlation between\u2026\u201d Really means \u2013 I wear black jeans on casual Fridays.
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\n* \u201cAccording to the F-Test, the portfolio\u2019s return are heteroscedastic. If we use a weighted-least squares approach, we should be able to model the portfolio\u2019s future returns without the use of a stochastic random variable.\u201d Really means \u2013 I browse the amputee section at my local porn shop on the weekends.
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\n* \u201cI hate Wall Street.\u201d Really means \u2013 I hate Wall Street, but love money.
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When I first started on Wall Street in 1994, I knew less than nothing. It was embarrassing. But as the years went on I finally figured out what things REALLY MEAN\u2026     * \u201cSooooo, are we still on for tonight?\u201d   Really means – I still have stripper glitter stuck on my neck from … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-buy-side-book-blog"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}