Foreign Exchange: A Practical Guide to the FX Markets

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Joe Troccolo, my manager at UBS, my teacher, and my mentor for over 12 years; it was in his classroom that I was first introduced to real finance (and by that, I generally mean the opposite of academic finance). Thanks also to my associates in Financial Markets Education: Walter Braegger, Joe Bonin, Onn Chan, Lindsey Matthews, Radha Radhakrishna, Kai Hing Lum, and Spencer Morris; you are a collegial, stimulating, and wonderfully critical and supportive group. Finally, much of what I know about FX, I have learned from my friends and colleagues in foreign exchange at UBS and its legacy institutions; thanks to Ed Hulina (who taught me to navigate the Merc Floor), Ellen Schubert, Mark Schlater, Fabian Shey, Carol Gary-Tatti (who created the FX screen shots found in this book and helped in many other ways), Ed Pla, Urs Bernegger, Daniel Katzive, Raj Kadakia, Ramon Puyane, John Meyer, Dan Denardis, Heinz Henggeler, Paul Richards, Maryellen Frank, Brian Guidera, Brian Jennings, Andy Robertson, Denise Giordano, Christine Gilfillan, Matt Slater, Jason Perl, Dave Toth, and many, many others. Thanks also to my former and exceptional summer interns: Eric Dai, David Alpert, and Kaitlin Briscoe.

I would also like to acknowledge the invaluable support and cheerful assistance of Martha Ciaschini and Rob Greco who run the Information Center in our UBS office in Stamford, Connecticut. It would be difficult for me to do my job without your help.

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