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194: Liam Vaughan – Bedroom Trader Amasses Fortune, Becomes Prime Suspect of Flash Crash

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Everyone you speak to was just completely amazed by his ability to just keep upping size and continually take on more and more risk. In doing so, it sounds as though it made management a little bit nervous at times. There's a lot of anecdotes about him sort of butting heads with the Rossies and stuff because he constantly wanted bigger and bigger limits. He didn't buy fancy clothes. He bought a moped that he used to drive into the office and apparently used to fall off it all the time. But if he lost a huge amount of money, it didn't really make any difference to him. And so he would lose huge amounts of money one day and nobody would even know

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