Sunday, September 9, 2012

FOR WHOM IS THIS BUTTER?


FOR WHOM IS THIS BUTTER?



Every battle has a winner and a loser
When share value falls and clients lose their treasure,
Who is the winner: Company or the investor?
If it is neither, then who is enjoying the real butter?

We as traders customize trading calls,
For traders and investors, customizing our trading by:
Converting every investor to a trader and a trader to a loser
End of the day neither the client survives nor is the dealer left with a satisfying smile

Not that profit is a rare possibility
Just that loses have more frequency
With clients adrenaline increasing its intensity
Their stocks begin to leak financial vitality

It is a vicious circle to be lost
Once you find yourself, you don’t even want to look back
Back in B-School I remember reading ‘Trading as a zero-sum game’
Now when I look back at broking I experience trading to be a negative game

If life is about the journey and not destination
And everyday negotiation is getting to be a burden
Then it means life is calling out with a message for me to ‘MOVE ON’
Life is worth more than broking arbitration

Be it a trader or an investor,
It is broking firm that sucks the butter
Turning dealer as a butcher
Though it is he who churns the butter




KAMALA BHARADWAJ


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