Perhaps the most common reaction to John Lefevre’s book “Straight to Hell” comes from former equity derivatives trader Matt Levine, now a Bloomberg columnist. Lefevre (more commonly known as GSElevator) was on Bloomberg Television talking inside baseball with Levine, Erik Schatzker and Matt Miller, addressing topics in his tell-all, pillow-talk misadventures in Asia working for a major bank. Levine, as noted in a widely read column he wrote on the topic, thinks the book paints an inaccurate picture of big bank culture. John LeFevre: “As a bank executive I traded drugs and women for client business” “I would say unequivocally there…
LeFevre Perpetuates Banking Stereotype, Details Drugs, Women and Debauchery
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.