So when I was a kid I was into trading card games and after a while, I ended make some money by selling them. After selling what I already had, I was buying cards from some of my friends or at a card shop and selling them to others at a higher price. Obviously trading securities is a more complicated matter, but at a S&T interview, would this be a good way to show true interest?
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Absolutely
Think again: You are on the 21st floor sitting in front of a junior trader who has to put up with this shit because the senior people are making money on the ground floor. After a while you tell him you are into stocks/bonds because you were a former magic cards hustler? Seriously, the fuck is wrong with you?
"This one time I traded a charizard for a rare pichu, and then sold it right away, which was a really sweet deal. Made like a $10 ROI (that's return on investment, by the way, I'm big on complex financial acronyms too). Like, I'm not saying it was more complicated than what you do, but, like, I drew a lot of life lessons from that experience."
Just put on your resume, I traded pokemon cards and so i can trade stocks
Thats it.
If you made 10000s$ i.e you bought the Mox Pearls or Dual Lands because you foresaw an increase in mtg players and the tradiotional decks being popular that's respectable
Also none respects any card games but MTG and sports cards just a FYI
Seriously? You need help to see that it is a dumb idea to bring up in an interview? That's more like a tidbit you bring up after a few days at work.
I used to trade on online market in games like Diablo and made quite a bit progress there through arbitrage thanks to relatively illiquid market. I think this might be a sign that I'll be successful in trading physical commodities.
Seriously OP, reading your post gave me cancer.
Did I do all this stuff growing up also? Yes.
Do I enjoy video games, particularly ones with realistic markets? Yes. Would I talk about this in an interview? Fuck no. And if I had I probably wouldn't have a job at a BB.
On the other hand, if you're a booky for a group of friends and want to take a risk on an interviewer who seems cool you could talk about that. There was a drinking game I played with a ton of friends and started giving people odds on tournaments, would have min/max bets, calculate my expected return and potential maximum loss, etc. This was different because A) People are much more likely to want to talk about sports betting than trading cards and B) I actually used concepts I had learned in my statistics classes to make real money in a systematic way. However it's also probably illegal and a lot of people don't like the image that traders are all crazy gamblers so it's risky to bring up.
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