Business has really picked up. We had a mailer for several hundred trading-oriented prospective customers hit yesterday and the phones have been blowing up. To avoid confusion, recall that there are two aspects to what I do: 1) an over-the-counter market-making service in physical gold and 2) speculate on markets largely with futures. The mailer goes to potential clients on the physical based on a business list our US marketing department purchased from a data mining company.
Both have gone really well today with gold touching all time nominal highs around $1279 per troy ounce (depending on where you get your trading info).Over the coming weeks I will begin cold-calling to follow up from those mailer prospects, but until then I get to wait on the inbound calls to slow down. That's going to require some serious caffeination (wish I had some of the espresso from Italy).
Basically my work day consists of being on and off the phone all day (for physical deals entered via our proprietary trading system), speculating on markets through a futures exchange platform and rocking out via the Grooveshark streaming music website (lots of Grateful Dead and Railroad Earth right now) with Bloomberg TV on in the background. Manic, but fun.
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