title: Trader Vic: Methods of a Wall Street Master
author:  Victor Sperandeo 
description: <b><i>Trader Vic  Methods of a Wall Street Master</i></b>
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  PROLOGUE
  Portrait of a Trader | October 2, 2007
  Back in 1999, when the world was brimming with optimism, when there
  were purple Yahoo! taxicabs patrolling the streets of San Francisco, I was a
  clerk on the options trading floor of the Pacific Coast Options Exchange. It
  was there that I learned how the financial markets worked. I spent much of
  my time standing in the back of the Intel-Oracle pit with the other clerks
  and stock jockeys; that is, the area where traders in Intel and Oracle options
  congregated.
  There was a trader in the pit nam