http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/the-business…
23 year old FX trader Alex Hope's bar tab amounted to £203,948 for the night. This includes spending £125k alone on a single champagne bottle.
Looks like models and bottles and the glory days of finance is still alive for some people. What a baller.
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If i had 10 bil, I wouldn't blow 125k on a single bottle. What a dumbass.
Why not? He got to party with the WIFE of Wayne Rooney...
That's great. What a self-made man. I say let him live it up.
Hopefully he's getting laid for spending all that money
(not really)
A chance to meet Wayne Rooney is worth 100k alone to me, if I could party with the guy's wife then he must be around too..
?
I'm exaggerating.
No wonder the article didn't mention the firm he's working at. What a joker, he must have taken a loan to buy those drinks: http://www.alexhopefx.com/
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=226690404067840&set=a.2266903974…
This guy is such a gimmick- he's using freestockcharts.com for charting while laying out his little sister's monopoly money on his desk.
What a fucking tool.
https://www.financemagnates.com/forex/regulation/london-fx-fraudster-al…
Guy looks like a total tool.
Is Wayne Rooney supposed to be famous?
Are you fucked?
Are you fucked?
]https://www.facebook.com/#!/hrithikroshan
Hrithik Kroshan is a famous Bollywood actor with over 2 million facebook likes. You ever heard of him? Wayne Rooney could walk into any bar in the U.S. totally unnoticed.
I'm with you. For $100k there are tons of better people I'd rather meet.
^^gonna go with yes
http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/844898-65m-deal-makes-wayne-rooney-worlds-…
http://bustedcoverage.com/2011/10/19/50-most-popular-athletes/#photo=38
He plays soccer...
are you trying to be funny? it's not working.
Oh, here comes the internet tough guy. The 130 lb badass.
One article said he was friends with the club owner; maybe he put some cheap ass wine in a big bottle to impress girls at the club and market his brand, because if he's spending that much on one night, doesn't make sense that he's showing off a 6 figure salary on his website...
Dude looks like a tool. Not to mention kind of nerdy. But hey to each his own
Here's his website for those that want to admire greatness:
http://www.alexhopefx.com
"London born and bred, Alex Hope, 22, is a self-taught trader who specialises in the Foreign Exchange Market. Despite his tender years, Alex is a name to watch out for in the city; an expert in the UK economy, he works the currency markets, regularly trading millions"
Trying to become the next Alex Vayner? This has to be a joke.
Something's off about this Alex Hope story. The dude has been trading for a small prop shop for three years and has his own self-promotional website. No way on earth he can 'afford' to do what he did. Sounds like a publicity stunt for something.
Meh...I agree...sounds more like he's running a Ponzi scheme than a legitimate trader.
Exactly what I was thinking.... This sounds like the start of an episode of American Greed. I could hear the narrator in my head when I was reading about Alex on his website
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11380872/Fraudster-who-pa…
"A conman who masterminded a £5.5 million fraud to fund his playboy lifestyle has been jailed for seven years.
Alex Hope, 26, a former catering manager at Wembley Stadium, posed as a City financier to create a multi-million Ponzi scheme to fund his gambling habits."
But partying with Wayne Rooney's wife is the NKI.
[quote=JDawg What a baller.[/quote]
You sound ridiculous.
It's fabricated by him and the club owner.
If you can provide proof I'd be keen to read.
From his pics it looks like he took physical delivery of some pork bellies contracts.
HA
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Wayne Rooney is a sick baller. Doesn't matter where you're from, if you watch sports then you know who he is.
he got mo cheddah than game.
next.
lol @ the stacks of 1s on his desk...
Aw, I can't check out this baller's website anymore :(
Why would anyone ever do this, even if it is a stunt?
What kind of bullshit prop shop hires a nobody? Besides mark Cuban who is worth many billions of dollars only bought a 80k bottle of the bubbly when his mavericks won the NBA title. I call bullshit.
By the way, Russian oligarchs spending their holidays here in italy have done worst, a guy did leave a 20k Euros tip, arabs are known for their shopping crazyness (a dude did spend 10 million just because he wanted to do some shopping) :D
A prop shop is not a hf. Also there is a huge difference in a kid who make 6 figures and Russian oligarch or a ME prince. Your thought process is wack. I make way more then this guy and I am not going to drop a 250k tab.
Shit, if I had that kinda money I'd drop 100k just to chill with Joe Hart...
Joe Hart is class.
I call bull shit
Pretty fucking awesome, I always love to see people killing it in this business, keeps the dream alive.
I thought that the higher ups didn't like it when their traders were so flashy/flaunted their stuff?
He's looks like a little douchebag either way... why does he have his own website again?
He decided to go big in Liverpool? Where the least attractive women in the UK live. What an idiot.
Armand de Brignac (Ace of Spades) is a shitty champagne. Even the champagne party at Nikki Beach in late July beats this retard.
Joe Hart is a twat
UBER DOUCHE- just look at his site...
anyone that wears sunglasses, at night, in a dark club, is a monster douche. the $125k bottle just confirms.
He looks like a tool. Like a recruiter, overdressed and cheap, searching for publicity.
I'm shocked that after all that he still had to spend £126 on pussy...
LOL @ this comment on his fb from one guy: "i Alex am new and i want you to be my role model"
If he earned it, he can spend it. Not sure alcohol would be the purchase of choice but to each his own.
He didn't earn it.
I just wanted to pop in here and mention again that this guy looks douchetastic, whoever brought up the point of wearing sunglasses in a dark night club is spot on... can't believe I missed that.
Don't you guys see the publicity stuff in it this all
Blatant publicity stunt.
Bad publicity too. But unlike showbiz, bad publicity doesnt work in finance. It's called class & this douchemaster is lacking it in spades.
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He's screwed. The interest on that subprime ARM he took out to buy that bottle is gonna spike up anytime now. Ninja fat ass. He's probably the "Gap Yah" kind of guy with a belly full of jelly who studied agriculture initially to take over daddy's farm in Ipswich...
I just cannot help myself from touching the Rooney comments. And I will do it in terms that Vtech can relate to.
Challenge: Find someone from the NFL with more likes on facebook than Rooney.
Also, being an actor is somewhat different from sports as supporting the team for which the athlete plays is commonly a prerequisite for - as you would say - 'liking' the player: You can like both Christopher Walken and a Bollywood actor, but liking Gerrard and Rooney is probably less common. Getting a million likes as a football player is significantly harder than it is for a movie star or pop artist.
This is only true because of the demographic of people who enjoy sports and use Facebook and Twitter is certainly smaller than the demographic that enjoys Justin Bieber an uses Facebook and Twitter.
double post
He seems like such a thick dickhead. Maybe he comes from a wealth family or something.
http://www.cityam.com/latest-news/exclusive-200000-bar-bill-trader-arre…
Alex Hope, the 23 year-old trader who hit the headlines after spending £125,000 on a single bottle of champagne, has been arrested on suspicion of being involved in an unauthorised foreign exchange trading scheme.
hahaha....... fuckin love it.
Haha, the plot thickens.
Jesus... what a tard. Pick one:
a)commit crimes b)bring attention to yourself
You should not do both together. Looks like this toolbag has been exposed for what he truly is.
If you're going to blow £200k as a 23 year old, at least spend it on something you can keep, e.g. a Ferrari
Didnt this kid get arrested for fraud?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/04/alex-hope-arrested_n_1385392.h…
His domain name expired yesterday.
"Dressed in a sharp navy blue suit and wearing an expensive watch with a pair of white athletic socks,"
So much jealousy on this thread haha
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