BrokenBanker
@brokenbanker.bsky.social
Equities, ETFs, Rates, FX trader. also 🎥, 📺, 🏏, 🎶. will never spam you with crypto, so ignore any imposters pretending to be me.
am ambivalent myself; he's a tech investor so you'd expect him to make money. what you can say looking at the longer term, is that he has brief periods of strong outperformance of the Nasdaq (see the dotcom bubble and the current AI bubble), but barely beats the Nasdaq over 30 years:
November 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
am ambivalent myself; he's a tech investor so you'd expect him to make money. what you can say looking at the longer term, is that he has brief periods of strong outperformance of the Nasdaq (see the dotcom bubble and the current AI bubble), but barely beats the Nasdaq over 30 years:
it's amusing that people love to rag on Masayoshi Son for some of his more public investment fails, and are seeing this as a 'buy' signal for NVDA; but don't consider the longer term performance of Softbank, which has had it off this year in particular being +147%:
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
it's amusing that people love to rag on Masayoshi Son for some of his more public investment fails, and are seeing this as a 'buy' signal for NVDA; but don't consider the longer term performance of Softbank, which has had it off this year in particular being +147%:
UK employment and average weekly earnings data for September a little soft vs. expectations, so can be seen as slightly helpful for the inflation outlook perhaps. GBP a little softer on the back of this print:
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
UK employment and average weekly earnings data for September a little soft vs. expectations, so can be seen as slightly helpful for the inflation outlook perhaps. GBP a little softer on the back of this print:
UK October British Retail Consortium sales monitor shows +1.5% growth y/y, a slowing from the summer months, largely driven by poorer weather and some holding back consumption ahead of November's upcoming Black Friday online shopping frenzy:
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
UK October British Retail Consortium sales monitor shows +1.5% growth y/y, a slowing from the summer months, largely driven by poorer weather and some holding back consumption ahead of November's upcoming Black Friday online shopping frenzy:
we're snail posting, post your snails:
(aka, the 'please, my rabbit is very sick meme')
(aka, the 'please, my rabbit is very sick meme')
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
we're snail posting, post your snails:
(aka, the 'please, my rabbit is very sick meme')
(aka, the 'please, my rabbit is very sick meme')
it me, Sci-Fi ship aficionado (but usually old school):
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
it me, Sci-Fi ship aficionado (but usually old school):
it's a Ferengi ship:
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
it's a Ferengi ship:
new BBC Director General picks shortlist:
November 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
new BBC Director General picks shortlist:
flat roof murder pubs only do this when they're very distressed:
November 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
flat roof murder pubs only do this when they're very distressed:
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it:
November 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it:
Leftfield for me at the Brixton Academy in 1996. the gig that infamously caused the ceiling plastering to come loose in places:
November 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Leftfield for me at the Brixton Academy in 1996. the gig that infamously caused the ceiling plastering to come loose in places:
it's just a really stupid framing, if not exactly a surprise:
November 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
it's just a really stupid framing, if not exactly a surprise:
pouring one out for Nick Train again (but not really), who has 8.4% of his Finsbury Growth & Income Trust in Rightmove. note he's also still persisting with Diageo despite another warning yesterday cc: @xvrmdf.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
pouring one out for Nick Train again (but not really), who has 8.4% of his Finsbury Growth & Income Trust in Rightmove. note he's also still persisting with Diageo despite another warning yesterday cc: @xvrmdf.bsky.social
mercifully light UK news day to finish the week, main story will be rumours re possible ITV break-up:
November 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM
mercifully light UK news day to finish the week, main story will be rumours re possible ITV break-up:
the shift to the right in Bloomberg news continues:
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 AM
the shift to the right in Bloomberg news continues:
is there a correlation between Evri being consistently the worst of the courier companies (everyone has a terrible Evri delivery story); and it using 4 different fonts in its logo for a 4 letter word ?
November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
is there a correlation between Evri being consistently the worst of the courier companies (everyone has a terrible Evri delivery story); and it using 4 different fonts in its logo for a 4 letter word ?
my spirit animal. also me reading BlueSky posts 😀
November 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
my spirit animal. also me reading BlueSky posts 😀
Bank of England holds with a very close 5-4 vote for a cut:
November 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Bank of England holds with a very close 5-4 vote for a cut:
hahahahaha - <breathes> - hahahahaha
is this think tank sponsored by Bridgewater by any chance ?
is this think tank sponsored by Bridgewater by any chance ?
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 AM
hahahahaha - <breathes> - hahahahaha
is this think tank sponsored by Bridgewater by any chance ?
is this think tank sponsored by Bridgewater by any chance ?