Trader who lost $456 million says he was basically working in ‘nuclear reactor’
May 08, 2017 at 12:53 PM EDT
Alexis Stenfors was a currency trader for Merrill Lynch in London back in 2009, when global markets were still reeling from their worst crisis in almost a century. Drawing from his 15 years experience, Stenfors had a hunch that there was more carnage to come and that the financial system was about to completely blow up.