Mark Hughes, ContributorI’m
not sure this trader-guy is the same guy from Yes Men in the Dow
Chemical video. Here, look at this clip of the Yes Men guy, the same
guy who was in t [...]
nickbraakI
work in the areas of online identity checking, OSINT and reputation, so
I did a little quick digging and found that he has content online going
to 2009. [...]
Daniel Nye Griffiths, ContributorIt
seems perfectly possible that he’s a real trader, but he’s also a day
trader – no more a “City trader” than I am. The more interesting
question might be [...]Page 4 of 4
FORBES: How old are you?
AR: I’m 34.
FORBES: What hours do you work?
AR: I trade first two hours of the NYSE, here it’s 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Then the last two hours of the markets, over here 7 to 9. Sometimes just the last hour.
FORBES: What do you do when you’re not trading?
AR: I’ll be honest with you. Here’s the deal, Emily. Trading is basically an obsession of mine. Anyone who knows me will tell you, I probably spend more hours…. It kind of takes over your whole life. If anyone wants to be really good at trading, just become obsessed by it. Ok, but what I do apart from trading? Well, I love traveling. I’ve been to the States quite a few times. I love writing. I’ve actually got a book proposal with a publisher in the UK, a few months ago. An interview-style book with some of my favorite traders. OK, I forgot to mention one trader, Carolyn Boroden, I quite like what she has to say about Fibonacci clusters. Her website is fibonacciqueen.com.
FORBES: Have you heard of the Yes Men?
AR: Heard of it before? Not quite sure why they’re calling me that. I have no idea where that came from.
FORBES: Because there’s a video of you posing as a Dow Chemical spokesman.
AR: What? A Dow Chemical spokesman? Have you seen this video? That can’t be right. I’ve never spoken to Dow Chemical before in my life. Maybe it’s a fake. Are you sure about this? Honestly, listen, I’ve no idea where that came from. That interview yesterday was one of the first ones I did live.
I don’t know why they think it’s a hoax. No, I am a trader absolutely. I have trader friends who could back that up. One of my mentors is a bestselling author and trader. Everyone knows me.
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Chemical video. Here, look at this clip of the Yes Men guy, the same
guy who was in t [...]nickbraakI
work in the areas of online identity checking, OSINT and reputation, so
I did a little quick digging and found that he has content online going
to 2009. [...]Daniel Nye Griffiths, ContributorIt
seems perfectly possible that he’s a real trader, but he’s also a day
trader – no more a “City trader” than I am. The more interesting
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There is an Alessio Rastani appearing on the electoral roll as living in North Kent, or to put it another way, S. London, over the last few years who would be about the right age.
I’m not sure this trader-guy is the same guy from Yes Men in the Dow Chemical video. Here, look at this clip of the Yes Men guy, the same guy who was in the Dow Chemical hoax interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhrpSW_pnck
Here he is in a video about the Dow Chemical hoax:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiWlvBro9eI
Here are some photos of him:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Andy+Bichlbaum%22&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=666
Is that the same guy? He seems older and with a different shaped face, brow, and ears to me, but I can’t say for 100% sure, of course. Maybe he’s another member of the group, or is part of their general offer to folks who can pull of this kind of hoax, though… ?
I am SO unbelievably sick of corrupt newspaper paying idiotic journalists to do their dirty cover ups.
The trader looks NOTHING like the guy from yes men.
The BBC and other big institutions are scared of the publics reaction and ARE CLEARLY trying to frame this Trader.
The trader speaks the truth. Which is that the money institutions DO rule the world. and that a select few not only profit from the collapses but they also help to cause them!!!!
Until we wake up to the lies that the big money makers spread to stay on top we are consistantly slapped in the face by these pathetic journalists.
The Trader last night was just being brutally HONEST.
SCREW YOU FORBES FOR TRYING TO DECEIVE THE PUBLIC AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!
I checked out the video of the Yes-Man in the interview based on the Bhopal Disaster, and it is clearly not the same person.
I am very disappointed in your article, you have implied this guy is a fake, provided no evidence inferred that he is a fake.
So if we can’t rely on the BBC, since he is not an established employed trader and can’t rely on Forbes, because the report on their gut instinct with no facts or verification of the facts, where do we go from here?
Emily Lambert you need a slap in the face for trying to deceive the public!
Just because you spent years working hard to get this good job as a journalist does not mean you have to put up with the forbes decision makers as they do their best to corrupt you. Where is your integrity?
This is a pack of LIES LIES LIES.
The trader was speaking the brutal TRUTH. and looks nothing like the yes man.
I work in the areas of online identity checking, OSINT and reputation, so I did a little quick digging and found that he has content online going to 2009. Youtube, facebook and myspace. Those timelines are almost impossible to fake. I say he is real.
Also whilst searching I found a story about young love in Iran.
“Alessio Rastani, 33, is a London stock market trader of Italo-Iranian origin. He regularly visits his relatives in Tehran.”
http://observers.france24.com/content/20101006-iran-youth-flirting-tehran-cars-traffic-jam-boys-girls-iran-zamin
Nick — it’s obvious he’s real. It’s purely the work of propaganda producing any doubt. He didn’t even say anything that isn’t common knowledge to everyone not a) fully propagandized in favor of markets/wall st/capitalism, or b) in denial due to being involved in the markets. Of course Forbes is going to throw up a title positing if he’s a prankster, but everyone knows politics is the shadow cast by big banks. My god, read the CitiGroup “Plutonomy” memo and get a grip.
E. D. Kain had a comment about Mr. Rastani yesterday on these pages.
This man, whoever he is, was obviously “talking his book.” He’s short up to his eyeballs, and speaking to the BBC is a perfect opportunity to say things that will make his short positions more valuable.
Only one problem; it didn’t work!
Easy come, easy go . . .
I am sure he is a trader. His experience and knowledge bout the market cant be faked easily.
Even if hes a prankster, he sure did a lot of homework to even fool me.
And he is persistent bout the Dow future, thats a trader’s ego.
At least he did better than the forbes interviewer. FORBES: Do you trade the VIX?
Do Forbes people even need to ask this…. Probably an amateur interviewer.
I admit Emily Lambert is very hot, but she just dont have what it takes to be in the market sector.
And no way i gonna get her “history” books .
I probably will be more interested on how market makers earn money from stop losss hunting, forex market makers insiders info, blah blah, dirty Federal Reserve scandal, blah blah, something like that.
It seems perfectly possible that he’s a real trader, but he’s also a day trader – no more a “City trader” than I am. The more interesting question might be how the BBC got hold of him in the first place, if so. If he speaks at small investor events, as he seems to, he might possibly have an agent touting him for media placements – he might be a friend of a friend, or there might have been an appeal on social media for a trader to be interviewed.
There are plenty of soi-disant investment experts sitting at desks in their homes trading more or less successfully. Some will have strong views, and most will have less media training than any representative of, say, Goldmans trusted to go in front of a camera. If anyone at the institutions is praying for a recession, they certainly won’t be saying it on TV, because their business model is not built around website hits and bookings at speaking events…
He’s clearly not Andy Bichlbaum. See photo comparison here:
http://metabunk.org/threads/265-Debunked-Alessio-Rastani
Bichlbaum and Rastani are two different people; look at recent videos of Bichlbaum (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOia0yByoDM). Unless the shape of his chin and nose changed, and he had an SFX artist create prostheses to cover his wrinkles and create a new hairline.