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Gary Stevenson was Citibank's most profitable trader in the world in 2011.

Citibank's trading environment in the early 2010s involved hazing rituals, such as making new hires buy 100 burgers.

Gary Stevenson was taken to Las Vegas and celebrity after-parties, with one night costing $20,000-$30,000, before he even started working full-time.

One of Gary Stevenson's colleagues admitted to spending 80,000 pounds a year on cocaine.

Gary Stevenson's colleague, Rupert, once growled and gnashed his teeth at him on the trading floor in front of everyone for about 10 seconds.

Gary Stevenson instituted a 'Nando's only' rule for broker meetings, where he would pay for himself and the broker would pay for themselves.

Gary Stevenson received a bonus of nearly 400,000 pounds (approximately $700,000 at the time) after his first year.

In the final round of the trading game, Gary Stevenson's score was negative, but he was still declared the winner because his 'warmup' scores were good and he 'backed himself' against a rigged game.

Gary Stevenson worked as a professional trader for Citibank from 2008 until 2014.

The London trading floor at Citibank was a massive space in a Canary Wharf skyscraper, located on the second floor.

Gary Stevenson believes that politicians, university economists, central bank economists, and media economists, whose job it is to fix global economic issues, are 'definitely not going to fix it.'

Gary Stevenson spent three years on YouTube and in the media, predicting events related to COVID-19 in 2020, and believes everything he said happened exactly as predicted.

I lost $8 million in a week.

I wasn't allowed to keep that position, so you end up $4 million in the red.