Criminal Investment Fraud Christopher Angus: Stella Huh & Timothy Barton Partner Christopher Angus
This category features blog posts related to investment fraud guru Christopher Angus. Throughout 2016 we sent Christopher Angus over $3 million in investments, and in 2017 he did a "oops I lied to you every day and lost all your money, shucks!" pitch. We knew he stole the money, but the UK's Crown Police were too lazy to follow the money trail and did not analyze the electronic devices.
Right after receiving the first investment Christopher Angus "joked" about putting the money in Bitcoin. A decade after committing his fraud Christopher Angus shows no signs of holding a job, is not looking for employment, and still lives in the same house. A private investigator firm analyzed his profile and concluded he is sitting on stolen funds outside of the formal financial system.
His 8 counts of international wire fraud, along with the money laundering and embezzlement will likely be treated as part of the Timothy Lynch Barton racketeering crime ring, giving him many potential 20-year sentences to enjoy.
Racketeering criminal Timothy Lynch Barton (fraudulently mis-)manged a bunch of companies named Wall Cos 1 through 20, while comingling investor funds. Only a couple of the companies ever engaged in any sort of real estate purchase or development. The entities and assets were just dressing to sell the ponzi scheme. Timothy Barton has tried to delay every move of the SEC receivership while his racketeering criminals have been busy hiding, selling, and structuring assets. The companies were purported to be real estate investment companies, however they were used to embezzle investor funds and launder them through cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin via theft-by-conversion. According to sources we have been in contact with the seed funding for the ponzi scheme came from an investment Aaron Wall and Giovanna Villanueva made through Stella Huh's partner Christopher Angus in the UK. Crown Police were too lazy to follow the money trail and claimed the banking records were protected by GDPR, though the FBI will slice through such nonsense in the coming weeks. The Timothy Barton criminal case (U.S. v. Barton, Case No. 3:22-cr-00352-K) will appear in court on November 2, 2026.
Not only did criminal Christopher Angus steal millions from us, but we have faced a rash of bad luck over the last few years as criminals tied to the Timothy Barton racketeering crime ring have hacked my wife's electronic devices, repeatedly offered death threats, bribed people to make false statements, etc. ... we are tired of the threats, crimes, and nonsense. This blog will help ensure the racketeering frauds are put in prison where they belong.
Christopher Angus is a longtime friend of Stella Huh. Together they were able to launder investor money into the Wall companies, which led to the SEC's Barton Recievership.
One should never lose confidence, no matter how many crimes they commit, even if they are a racketeering criminal, right Chris?
This video is part of a confidence series, providing free video tutorials on how to defraud investors. This fifteenth video is 22:12 & was shared on June 8, 2016. The investment guru who shared this video delivered over a 99% investment loss, as he simply stole the money and integrated it into other investment scams abroad. https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18693916.conman-christopher-angus-pay-back-just-1-2m-scam/
Crown Police never followed the money trail.
00:00 Christopher Angus: Hello Mr. A just a quick video, take nine 'cause the other ones ran for like half an hour while I was talking through the market commentary. But it's so fucking dead that I was like, "There's just nothing happening, there's nothing to talk about." I'm gonna try and do this in like two minutes now, because the last one was 48 minutes and I've just scrapped it because fucking bollocks. So basically I just wanna talk through yesterday. Let's get this chart looking decent, alright. So yesterday this was... This is the... Go back one more day 'cause this was Monday, right? This was Monday nothing, nothing, nothing. This is kind of the time when you get interested. The bond market opens around here. The VIX came off and they went up about three ticks mark S&P didn't reflect that, there was no trade, it came back down there and it just closed. There was just nothing to do on that day. Yesterday there was... It looked as though perhaps there was an opportunity. So if you look around this area where it gets a bit choppy this is when the market... This is when the bonds open. And in the markets you know pre-market and all that kind of stuff, and obviously the open at 2:30, but this is really when you start warming up, but you can see nothing happened, it was flat all day and then it popped three ticks, but the thing to notice here it popped at 8:00 so one hour before the close and it went up one tick and then you would probably wanna...
01:39 Christopher Angus: If you were even considering getting in there it would be there. So, now you've only got... Now you've gotta get past one tick to to beat the spread and break even and get one more tick and you would have had to hold this. This is actually past... Yes it's a quarter past nine just before that futures do properly close just to make one tick. There was no close. Okay, now here today was flat, flat, flat, flat, flat and we've had a big pop. No, actually a three-point pop. That's a three-point pop. Well, maybe a little more. Let's have a look here, 63 to 1503. So it's a four-point pop, alright? Except I'm not buying it. In the last video I said that I made a little hour and I said, "This is why we don't buy it here." Even though it's tempting we do a...
02:32 Christopher Angus: I did a little X and then I said, it's gonna... Then I drew the line and it broke through the line, but the video is like 48 minutes. Okay, and I'll do the same here. I wanna say I'll do the up arrow and then I'll do... I'll do a line here with a little X, alright. We don't buy it here because it will come back on you, alright? This is bound to hurt you. This market, it's really bound to hurt you. So a point to the video was just to go through the last couple of days and there's just fucking nothing going on. I really thought we could squeeze a trade out today because it's so tightly wound, but it looks like it's gonna go for the highs and that's just gonna... It's gonna be 20 points off the high. Fucking noisy man, on the streets, living in Oxford. Fucking cunts. Anyway excuse my language. So this is the VIX. I've gotta pop out S&P chart somewhere.
03:33 Christopher Angus: I have like all these pop out charts, which I'm laying over here as I'm trying to multi... Multi-manage everything with demos and stuff and I'm... Okay, can I pop this out here otherwise. Is this a pop-out. Come on, how do I pop you, no, alright, okay, here's the pop, right. So if we... The S&Ps come off here in the last hour, but if we make it through this line here, I drew this in the last video. The S&P will explode, right? So there's another chart, I can't pop it out, but we're actually on some support and I don't do technical analysis, but support resistance is the only thing like I actually have a reasonable amounts of respect for. All the other like penance and bull flags and all that other nonsense is just random fucking gibberish. Look, we're at this line here, yeah. We're gonna have a little rest here. We may go half a tick... Half a point down through here, but my... This is the S&P now it's not the VIX, the S&P is probably gonna rest here and then it's going back up.
04:56 Christopher Angus: I'll do a little arrow so we know. There it's going back up, alright? I could be wrong, I'm not in the trades I don't really give a shit, but this is why I'm not taking a trade, because I think it's going up and it's gonna keep driving the VIX down. So, like I said, I did all these arrows going, this is where the VIX is going, this is where the VIX is going, this is where the VIX is going and the VIX has come back up, but I feel very strongly here that the S&P is going to keep looking for higher highs. As I said, I could be wrong, it doesn't matter. If I'm wrong, I wish I was wrong because I'll just jump on a VIX trade. Please can I be wrong but I don't think I am. You know unfortunately, and I think that... I don't know if you can see I'm just make this a bit bigger.
05:50 Christopher Angus: This VIX will keep... This VIX like I said, I'm not buying it here, these little x's, I'm not buying it here, this is for the video, this is where the VIX is going. I did a little down arrows, this is where the VIX is going... We're going down. S&P is going up, right? We're having a little rest on the line. Just a bit tired. I could be wrong, hope I am 'cause we'd make some money.
06:13 Christopher Angus: But I don't think I am. Alright, so I'm just gonna make this a little smaller so I can keep an eye on it while I talk through this video, 'cause I'm gonna have to cut this soon so I can actually concentrate 'cause I'm... It will be a very shit video, 'cause I'll stay, I'll just stop talking. This is this system, autonomous, places its own trades, takes its own trades off. Put that VIX chart back on, places its own trades, put that... Determines how much profit to make. We trading, you can see is around 55 orders waiting to go to momentum, volume, things that, when there's a big volume spike and a momentum spike, we get in the way, we take a few points and then we get out. At the moment, it's running around one-to-one, so worth every point we make, every pound we make, we lose a pound, but we get the rebate.
07:10 Christopher Angus: Over time, if you take a snapshot in time, it may be a little bit out, maybe a little bit up, but on average, that's kind of where we work, that's what we... And so the thing is run-able at the moment. And basically we'll probably start running it pretty soon. So, I'm not just to pull it off although it's gonna disappear. I'll just show you. This is actually a VIX things. This is so I can get into positions and get out, pretty quickly, especially if the market's moving quickly, you don't wanna go full ball in straight at the same time. This is a very much more sophisticated version of that but I can do this for many other instruments that's purely for the VIX. If I wanted to run a bunch of hedges if I was really unsure of the market, I could have a bunch of scaling hedges that were going up and you can see it's only the demo, but it works out how much I need to buy and if I wanted to do a profit target according to this, you can see it's given me the correct profit target as well.
08:15 Christopher Angus: And I can drag these around I can make new groups and I can do all sorts of really really awesome things. And this is if I want a create hedges, if I just want open one sided legs, I could open template, so it's really quick. It's a very, very, very robust, powerful system that I've created over several years, at, you know at incredible cost really, not only coding cost, but experience cost. Okay, so there's an order that's just arrived and I'll just put that in. Now I rebooted everything just for the video. So this has been running for about an hour. So these trades haven't really had time to work there way out of the system. This is called the baby step strategy. So, you can see where all the big negatives are negative, negative, negative. That's why I just killed the system just so I could make a decent video, so we could start again, it'll be pretty clear. So if I just highlight these quickly, so we can see where we are.
09:25 Christopher Angus: Okay, so that's that. But you can see a side work. I just killed it for the video and the demo. Every single one of these as a winner, every single one, there's no losers here, none, out of everything today. From... Not today, that's from yesterday. Zero, everything's positive, doesn't make losses, doesn't make losses, doesn't make losses. And we were holding somewhat big losing positions here. Some of them have been open, as you can see, for close to well 20 hours, 20-30 hours. I think there. No, it's not 30 hours, that's like a 24 hours, I don't know. None of these would have closed for a loss. And that's just the strategy. So we've been running it for about an hour and it's like hardly any of the positions have opened or closed.
10:25 Christopher Angus: Basically, these are all the positions that hit minus three because three have already closed. And we just got to wait and see. So, so far up like 300 and something odd. Obviously, the P&L is not that good, but as you open a position you go into a big negative PL because you pay the spread, so you're always starting off in the negative PL position. So as the system starts, it doesn't look that good. But this is basically how it works. On average, if I'm running it all the time, it can probably make 200 or 300 trades a day and I'm running it very, very conservatively. I could probably jack it up to a thousand if we really wants to go full gun of it. But, it is better than delta neutral in terms of P&L. It is making money and where there's a lot of fine tuning yet to come. So yeah, I'm really, really excited by this, actually. Of course, it's... I give it like 60%, 60% hope, which is high. I've been working on this for weeks now, so. I've also got a bunch of other strategies which look really promising as well, 'cause once you start thinking about things searching and do other things, the ideas start to flow quite quickly. I'll put the VIX chart back on anyway.
12:00 Christopher Angus: So... Looking at the VIX like I said I don't believe the VIX is going up and as I said I hope I'm wrong we can make some money but we need to see a drive up now let the bulls get a bit exhausted take some profit, whatever they are gonna do which will then let the VIX pop half a point like a full pop not this like one tick every hour grind up because when in the slow moving markets, you do not know what's going on so if I put a trade on now and it's moving so slowly, there is no way to... The whole market's just locked. I'll put the S&P back on here... This is like two hours right this is two hours. That's 13 to 17, that's like four points and the two hours before it was the same its like a 4 point range that the markets are locked stiff. But I think this is the S&P chart.
13:22 Christopher Angus: Okay, it looks like it is breaking down, oh it is come off it's come off. I just say it is having a little rest on the line that's the support line and it's having another little rest but I would be very very surprised if we break through there substantially and I am drawing another line here at 13, that's four points below. If we make it through here and hold down here, then we got a chance to make some money today. But I really would be surprised if that happens very, very surprised. No we're struggling this week man we are struggling I feel fucking awful about it. I feel fucking awful but I can't, there is no point if I put on a trade we're just gonna end up losing a tick so you know what, there's no point, there's no point. I got to work on the other shit at the moment so here we are wonder if we made any more trades, this is called the baby step strategy I made this little report there, no nothing yet. Alright, let's see VIX is tick back down VIX again these arrows I say the VIX is going down. I'll even make them red, make them red, make them red, make it red. I need to go to a fucking bar or something, 'cause this is fucking driving me crazy... Right.
14:58 Christopher Angus: Okay, so let's put the S&P back on, remember having the rest on the line I said up what's going on, We are going back up if we can get through this. Why am I talking like this like im fucking doing some kind of tutoring video I have no idea. I apologize for that if we can get through this little area here, the S&P will explode guaranteed. If we hold above there for a few minutes and then we close above there, tomorrow, if not today, we will be pounding new record highs on the back of the worst jobs report in five years, on the back of the worst corporate earnings in years. Like I think this must be share buy backs. I don't even have know if Bloomberg turned on because they don't know what is going on either and so they're just making it up. They're just making it up. So this is the S&P we're watching here. I obviously, I've got a whole bunch of other stuff which I can see out of my left eye, which well not on my right monitor, which you can't see which helps me see what's going on, but fuck these pop-up charts they are going all over my things. Basically can pop the windows out, open positions, charts like I am doing here so I can move them across but the more you do that, the more they kind of end up floating back on to other pages and they're just obscuring all my other stuff and it's pissing me off.
16:29 Christopher Angus: I am sorry for all the moaning by the way, I kinda think I'm funny with my monologues but I think it comes across as very negative so I apologize. It's not meant that way, it's just meant to be funny, and also I'm a bit frustrated of course and I feel bad because I need to make some money for you guys and for me. You know, I think I don't like when it's like this, I don't like it. I don't care about... You know I don't need the money but still it's like the compounding thing, and it's annoying, it's annoying. Anyway. So, I'll sum this up.
17:21 Christopher Angus: The last two days have been shit, including today, and I really thought we could get a trade in and I'm looking very hard for one now. I'll try and squeeze a tick or two out if I can. If it gets too close to eight and we're doing what we did yesterday, I'll just have to stand on the side again. It's been a long time since we did three trades, three days in a row, with nothing. I can't sell the VIX at this level because if you saw what happened on Friday, the market sneezes and the VIX will explode up. It's just not worth the risk. If the VIX pops four points and we are...
18:02 Christopher Angus: It would cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. It would be really fucking ugly. So I can't sell it at this level. It's not worth the risk. It's better to try and wait and just grab a few ticks if I can. Selling it at this level, and anything happens, it would just be, it's like double-digit loss. Do you know what I mean? Or high single digits, in one move, and it's just not worth it. It's not worth it. It's not worth it. So I hope I'm wrong and I think the S&P breaks from here, but I don't think it will.
18:41 Christopher Angus: A high frequency trading strategy, again, is an autonomous system. It makes its own decisions of where to place the orders. We're basically market making. So we're taking both sides of the market all the time. We are making more than I'm losing at the moment, but there's still a way to go. I think we're about 60% of the way, And too, I'm like on a high level, maybe of high momentum, high velocity to two, three, 400 trades a day. It could go higher, but that's kinda the comfortable level. And that's kind of it. You can see the trades going on and off. I think, these ones will probably go off here. These ones will go off. There's one that's come on. I wonder how... I'll just have one more look, see if anything else has closed. Yeah. So we've had, since I reset the system, what about hour and a half ago? We've made, how much is that 110, 264, 297. I don't know; like 400 or 500 quid. The rebate. We can see here actually we've made -10p thus far in the last 24 hours. But that's because I forced through a whole lot of trades and the rebate and the profit and loss are nearly identical. 121 positions closed and I've just been cocking with it and I forced a whole bunch of positions closed I would never do usually because I'm trying to do the video.
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20:57 Christopher Angus: Yeah. So this makes money. It needs to be fine tuned to make more. 60% probability, autonomous. I showed you the other stuff, I think, or this is like the ninth take. I can't remember what I've been saying. Because people have been phoning me, after being interrupted, the video's, the last video's 48 minutes, but it was just so nothing going on. Like I did the arrows and then that's all that happened in the last, over an hour now. I had to cut the video and just restart because it was no good. It was no good. So, I'll end the video now because otherwise it's just going to be more of the same. I'll just show you the S&P. Remember I said we're going to have a little rest on the line at the arrow and we are going up again, and we're going up. Can you see that? It's the S&P. We're going up, baby. Yeah, we may explode here, and the VIX is going to explode down. And that's why we can't buy the VIX, can't buy the VIX. I'm gonna end the video now 'cause I'm going mad. Bye.
Christopher Angus is a friend of Stella Huh, who is the silent partner behind the Wall companies associated with the Barton Receivership.
As a career conman, Christopher is a great speaker. He decided to kick off a confidence series, providing free video tutorials on how to defraud investors. This fourteenth video is 7:35 & was shared on June 6, 2016. The criminal who shot these videos delivered over a 99% investment loss, as he simply stole the money and integrated it into other investment scams abroad. https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18693916.conman-christopher-angus-pay-back-just-1-2m-scam/
Crown Police never followed the money trail.
00:01 Christopher Angus: Hello Mr. A, just a quick video. I'm recapping Friday before the open. Sorry it's late, I had a pretty difficult weekend. Went on a date, she came back, she threw up all over my house, I ended up cleaning up vomit from 1 AM until 5 AM, then asked her to leave. And then I was in bed all day because I was so fucking tired. So, I basically didn't get out of bed all day because I had a drunk in my house. I need to consider carefully how drunk people are. Didn't even get to fool around with her, just cleaned up sick. Really nice. That's my life, clean up other people's mess. Anyway, enough of the anecdotal comedy. I want to just run through what happened Friday, it was a very good day. Job's report was very weak, only 38,000 jobs added, even though there's the Verizon union strike thing going on, which really decreased it, but it was really unexpected, it drove the S&P down, I'm sure you saw.
01:09 Christopher Angus: As that came out, I basically hit the buy button because it was so fucking low and the market just started melting down. I thought we were gonna have a massive day. But there's so much interest in keeping the S&P high at the moment, that the big money just bought it back. Super interesting to watch and very unbelievable. A little bit frustrating because I thought we're gonna have another break down. I was kind of edgy at that time on the second trade though. I'm gonna talk you through that in a minute, because I didn't wanna get caught on the wrong side. So two buys, you can see this is like maybe 30 seconds after it opened, somewhere around there. Missed, obviously, a bit of it because it moves so quickly and also you need to make sure that it's actually gonna go in the right direction. So, probably gave away like in three tics, and then got out of it probably two tics earlier as well, so that was four tics. Because you don't know where it's gonna turn and when you have these very, very sharp moves up you can start seeing it really going up. That's where everyone's puking, so the losers are just jumping out and the market's gonna turn, and then you get out and wait for the next one, which is exactly what I did and it happened again.
02:26 Christopher Angus: Again, there was somewhat of a sharp move up here and I got a little bit nervous and jumped out. That was something like two tics, so four plus two. And then I wanted to wait to see the pull back, but it just started grinding lower and lower and lower, and lower. And basically I guess I could have taken another tic later on, but it's like I seem to do all the work in the first hour or two, and then it's like, "Look at this, it's just pathetic." I guess, I could have just kept scalping one or two tics, but after the big moves, you wanna see another big move and it kind of, I guess, messes with your head a little bit because you're not really geared up to take those single tics, so you might end up over-holding them and scratching them. And on a Friday, you definitely don't wanna go into the weekend. So I was a bit disappointed that the market came back so strongly, but still we made 0.6 plus three, but it's like close to 6.5. I thought I would actually have done seven, but it's six, so two plus four.
03:40 Christopher Angus: Today might be difficult, because the S&P is still grinding and it's fucking grinding higher. We're only 40 points off the all-time high now, like just nuts. I'm actually ready with the VIX if we move now, well I've always been ready, but I'm kind of super expecting something to happen kind of soon because it's not like I'm kind of half-ass with one eye on it now. It's like something's gonna happen soon within a month or two, I don't know, that's just the way I feel today. It's a Monday, I had a shitty weekend, whatever. But I really am feeling like this is just an enormous bubble, more than anything after seeing what happened on Friday and how even really bad job report, worst in like, I don't know, five years or something. Doesn't seem to want to make the market break down. And that's just missed the bubble.
04:40 Christopher Angus: So, that's Friday. Made a decent amount, do a screenshot here while I remember, made a decent amount. I'm not expecting to have an easy day today. I can't sell it. Oh, that's one thing I wanted to say. I was like, as I said to you in Skype, "This is why we don't sell it at these low levels, because you get these tremendous cracks and because the market is so tightly wound, so fucking tightly wound, I can't even explain." The VIX will pop and it'll pop like several percentage points in one move, or several full points on the VIX, which is obviously like 5%. It could go ugly. I really am not saying I won't sell it but I'll sell it much much smaller, and I'm much more hesitant to do so. Because you don't have any time to think, you don't have time to react even if you get into bad situation you have to hedge it off. It's a situation which, in hindsight you would say, "I wish I hadn't traded." So, unless I'm completely sure today what's gonna happen or I need to see a pull back which will drive the VIX up and I can buy a little lower. So I'll buy it again when it comes lower from after it's popped.
06:03 Christopher Angus: At the very least that's what I'd wanna do. Selling it now, there'd have to be pretty strong circumstances to make me wanna do that, like it starts trending down rapidly. Not this kind of grind down one tic hour kind of thing, or half a tic an hour on average. So that's kind of it, not much else to say, went on a date, thought I was gonna get lucky. In fact, I got extremely unlucky and that was my personal life. I have to say I do find it funny because you couldn't imagine something else going wrong like that. I could imagine lots of things, but it was just unreal. She was really hot as well. I was super gutted, so, so gutted. Unreal, anyway. And otherwise, things are going good. Still working on my strategies, they are looking promising, nothing big to report there. But, I'll know by the end of the week if the likelihood's gonna be above 60%. At the moment, I'd say it's around 40% probability that we'll run the high-frequency strategy. And I guess that's it for today. I will do this video, upload it quickly, and do the sheets and send this across to you in about 30 minutes. Bye for now.
Ill-reputed high finance investment criminal Christopher Angus is kicking off a confidence series, providing free video tutorials on how to defraud investors. This thirteenth video is 13:53 & was shared on May 27, 2016. The criminal who shot these videos delivered over a 99% investment loss, as he simply stole the money and integrated it into other investment scams abroad. https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18693916.conman-christopher-angus-pay-back-just-1-2m-scam/
Crown Police never followed the money trail.
0 minutes 25 seconds: if volatility stays low might have to shift strategy to try to trade for scratch trades which monetize via rebate
1 minute 35 seconds: mentions plateuing of earnings & what he sees coming for next couple years. eventually the S&P & markets in general will break down & there will be 1 or 2 big pops in VIX.
2 minutes 25 seconds: will likely make a large amount of money in coming years across a few trades when market breaks. no liquidity problems now, but could perhaps could see lower yields when account hits around 20 million
3 minutes 40 seconds: has to be very certain a strategy will be safe before putting live because "there is so much money at play"
4 minutes 10 seconds: when a strategy works with backtesting without much change or curve fitting it is usually a very good sign
4 minutes 28 seconds: IG platform allegedly blocked API usage of test algorithm because new test algo made about 22,000 requests. suggests new algo when it goes live could make about 5,000 GBP in rebate per day using automated HFT algo.
6 minutes 45 seconds: will keep grinding away at VIX. over next 6 months there will be another new strategy added to the mix & another strategy over the subsequent 6 months
7 minutes 40 seconds: likes mean reverting trades & trades which can be hedged, likes trades where you can make large returns with low amounts of movement and low amounts of risk. likes to have a little and often approach. if it is little and often it is extremely low risk. you know, no home runs.
8 minutes 50 seconds: gives new HFT algo probability of going live over following 3 months like a 30% probability because wants to test extensively and make sure there is no problem with it
9 minutes 15 seconds: really thinks he can do 100 million over next 3 to 4 years
10 minutes 10 seconds: thinks returns are perhaps a bit below 1% a day
10 minutes 45 seconds: wants to keep diversifying so he can make the little from little and often even more little to further reduce risk
11 minutes 0 seconds: philosophy is PPC - protect precious capital & ARR - always reducing risk
11 minutes 20 seconds: if he had 10 strategies which worked like the VIX then rather than taking a 1% risk on a trade he'd take 1/10th of a percent risk on each trade
12 minutes 0 seconds: sees smooth progress up to 25 million point and has a bit of anxiety about how he will handle the plateauing when the account grows to that size. return rate likely to drop 1/10th of a percent every few million beyond that point
00:00 Christopher Angus: Hello Mr A. Excuse me. Just a quick video. Nothing really to see today so the screen's black. You can just listen. Obviously, I was waiting for Yellin to speak so we can get some action. I guess first thing I wanna say is, if the volatility remains very, very, very low like this, I'll have to change the strategy a little bit and basically trade for straight out rebate. Obviously, you won't make as much but you'll probably won't have many days where we don't make anything. It's not a strategy I do out of preference, but if there's no break and she doesn't want to raise, we'll get something today for sure. But if there's no... If the market just keeps grinding higher and higher, the VIX is gonna keep grinding lower, daily take's gonna be lower and I will have to take a much more aggressive strategy and basically go for one or two ticks per trade, but multiple trades, and basically earn through the rebate. There's a million ways to make a million dollars and this is just another way. But if she does raise, and she will raise soon, before September, well, hopefully it'll be June, and the VIX will pop and we'll make some money. That's that.
01:33 Christopher Angus: I just wanted discuss, obviously, the future as well with the plateauing of the earnings, and the next couple of years is the way I see them. Obviously, we're both expecting, at some point, a market breakdown of the S&P and the markets in general at some point, at least in some kind of small scale, even a pop of 20 points in the VIX would be incredible. So that's highly likely to happen. So, over the next couple of years I expect that we'll have one or two pops which will be great, whether they are 60 points or 20 points or 30 points, I don't know. And once they go up, we ride them down, it's always highly volatile so it's good both ways. So if I had to say in the next two years, we'll probably make probably a very, very large amount of money over just a few trades. Also, obviously, we don't have any liquidity problems at the moment and I only really foresee stuff happening once we kinda get to the 20 million, not, maybe not, maybe a little bit higher, but somewhere around that mark, the yields will fall incrementally.
02:57 Christopher Angus: So from, like say... Let's just call it simple. I know that you're not making this kind of money at the moment but, say we're doing 1% a day, at 20 million we might expect to make like 0.9 and at 25 0.8, at 30 0.7, and so on, until it gets quite low. At the same time though, I am working on other strategies all the time. I wanna diversify anyway to make money in other directions with other strategies, so there's more consistent money and it's not we're all relying on one horse. And I have many strategies that I've made, but I need to be very, very sure of it, because there's so much money at play, that it's gonna be reliant and consistent, and even if it doesn't make as much as the VIX, it runs on the side as well. So I'm working on something at the moment. Like I said, it's showing a tremendous amount of promise. And usually, when things work quite quickly and you don't have to tweak them and stuff, you don't have to do too many changes to the overall strategy to make it work over many time periods and when you back test it, you're not curve fitting, it just works. It's usually a really good sign.
04:22 Christopher Angus: So I'm running a high frequency strategy at the moment. Ran into some problems, on the demo obviously, with IG today actually, because we made like 22,000 requests and they blocked us, so that was pre-market. Obviously, it's when you try it out, because you can't be blocked during market hours because that's kind of a disaster 'cause it takes a little while for them to unlock you when you promise not to DDOS them again. So that's showing a lot of promise and that would make a very consistent amount of money, because I can forecast basically how many trades we'll do in a day. Obviously, it will go up and down, but on average, say we do 500 trades a day, I can then say, "Okay, we'll make like five grand a day just in rebate, very consistent money." And times that by 220, 250 days a year, 'cause it's totally automated, I guess that's, I don't know, 1.25 million off the top of my head. Something close to that. And that's just the straight up rebate.
05:34 Christopher Angus: So I guess if I have to sum this video up, it's obviously the VIX is good, we'll continue to grind away money, maybe a little inconsistently if the volatility remains low. If nothing happens today... Well, we'll make money today, that's for sure. But if she doesn't raise today, next week we'll... It's Memorial week as well, so it's going to be very quiet, but say, come Tuesday, if the VIX isn't coming back up, we'll have to go really to almost a rebate only strategy, just while we wait for the volatility to pick up. So we're looking for zero profit really, or one tick. And that works, you know, I've done it before. And it's a little easier, I guess, but it just doesn't pay that well. But, if we're making one or two ticks a day equivalent, why not? But I don't want to mix up what I'm doing trying to actually play for three or four or 10 ticks a day, when we don't need to. Just do rebate only, because it's a different animal entirely. So that's Tuesday's plan.
06:48 Christopher Angus: And again, to summarize, over the next couple of years, we'll have a few big days. We'll continue grinding the VIX. And over the next six months, I guess, we'll have at least one new strategy come to fruition. And then the six months after that, another strategy comes to fruition. It's very hard to predict how much they'll pay. But it's all gearing up for when we start plateauing at like around the 20 to 25 million mark, and the yields start to drop quite quickly. So I think it's gonna be a good run upto that point. And I have to really get on and keep working my strategies until then, because once it gets to 20 million, and... It's easy to make money with relatively lower amounts of money. It's much more difficult to make money when you have large amounts of money. So I have my... The characteristic trades I like. I like mean reversing trades. I like trades that you can hedge. I like trades where you can make large amounts of money, with small amounts of movement, with very low amounts of risk. Don't we all?
08:00 Christopher Angus: So, I think, as well, is I like to have the little and often approach, which leads you to the large amounts of money off the small amount of movement, because if it's little and often the risk is always extremely low; no home runs. And that's why we're trialling this HFT strategy. It's really not characteristically HFT that'll make 100,000 trades today. This is more like 1000, but I mean, you couldn't do it manually. It's just too much, 'cause you've got to manage them as well. So, it looks hopeful, but what's the probability of it coming to fruition, in the the next three months? I don't know, maybe like 30-40%, because at some point, we may discover some problem while we're testing it, and I guess that's the point in testing.
08:58 Christopher Angus: But really, to make a summary, or the summary, it's the VIX will continue to go. We'll have a few home runs, or at least one, I'm sure of it, and we will... I'll continue to find new strategies. So, to mitigate some of the plateau later on, like I said on Telegram last night, I really think that I can do 100 million in the next like three to four years. And I think I'd rather go for that kind of number.
09:28 Christopher Angus: And if you want to cash out at that point, no, because you don't see any point in having any more money 'cause there probably won't be, then, no harm done. And I wasn't misunderstanding you yesterday. I know you don't want to cash out now and you want to cash out some of your other stuff. But I was saying, of course, at that point in two or three years, when I'm saying "Okay, we've got to 50. I want to keep going." You might want to say well, "I'm kind of done or done to some degree." So, that's my plan for now. Everything seems to be working. It's just, I guess, going to my plan, it's a little slow because of volatility at the moment. But I think on average, if I average it out, probably is close to 1% a day, maybe a little bit lower, it's just when volatility is like this, it's horrible. But I think, once... After the first raise, the first announcement of the raise, you're gonna be banging out 1 and 2% every single day; every single day. And that'll make up for the slow days.
10:27 Christopher Angus: So that's my plan for the future, which isn't really that exciting. There's no grand things here. It's just more of the same and bigger amounts of money, with more trades, but still not changing the fundamental ethos of little and often. And that's really why I want to diversify because then I can make the little even more little and lower the risk even more. As I said to you before, my two philosophies are; PPC, protect precious capital, and always reducing risk; ARR. Those are the two philosophies I live by. So I'm always trying to make the trade smaller. Always thinking about stuff that I can do, because for example, if I had 10 strategies equivalent of the VIX, then instead of taking 1% risk on a trade, I'd take one 10th of a percent risk on each trade, which is obviously much better.
11:40 Christopher Angus: And so, that's what I'm striving for. And finding the new strategies is fun. It's frustrating and disappointing when they don't work, but I have a very high degree of confidence that we will get where we wanna go, and we'll achieve it in the kind of timeframes that we wanna achieve it. But of course I do have a small amount of anxiety when it comes to around to the $25 million point, the pound point. How are we going to mitigate the plateauing, and how severe is it gonna be? I think it's probably gonna be like 0.1% every few million; every two and a half to 5 million and the curve will flatten until it... It's never gonna go flat, but it may go down to, like say a quarter of a percent. And that last stretch might take a while. I think it'll probably be the slowest point.
12:42 Christopher Angus: But, if I have a bunch of other strategies grinding out 0.1% a day, and I have by that time four or five of them, plus maybe at the say 35 million point, pound point, I'm at likes 0.3, and I have three or four other things grinding out 0.1, we're not that far off where we are now. So, that's kind of the plan. It's not, as I said, it's not the blow your head off plan. It's just more bricks building the house. And as the one bricklayer gets tired, we hire new bricklayers to take his place.
13:26 Christopher Angus: So, I guess that's it. I'm gonna wait for the Yellin thing in about hour and a half or so. And I'll let you know how I get on just before the close. I've got Zara this weekend, so I won't be around much straight after the close. I'll just tell you how we did and call it a day. But that's it for now. Thanks A.
Convicted criminal Christopher Angus is charting a new course. Rather than a life based on international wire fraud, money laundering, embezzlement, theft by conversion, and other such racketeering related crimes he felt the world should see the other side of him.
He is kicking off a confidence series, providing free video tutorials on how to defraud investors. This twelfth video is 10:25 & was shared on May 26, 2016. The criminal who filmed these tutorial videos delivered over a 99% investment loss, as he simply stole the money and integrated it into other investment scams abroad. https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18693916.conman-christopher-angus-pay-back-just-1-2m-scam/
UK Crown Police never followed the money trail.
beginning: grainy image, but shows IG account balance of something like 2,374,902 GBP
4 minutes 0 seconds: claims a friend named Chris kept losing money buying the VIX and averaging lower as it dropped but the VIX never came back
4 minutes 30 seconds: claims that prior day was almost the first day he lost a tick (lost money on the day) but it didn't happen
6 minutes 30 seconds: testing high frequency algo strategy across hundreds of instruments & looking forward to putting it live, because it has a lot of rebate
8 minutes 0 seconds: spreadsheet will be updated to reflect new deposits
10 minutes 0 seconds: can't make money in such a tight market unless the S&P 500 finally breaks
00:00 Christopher Angus: Hello Mr. A, hello Miss Geo. Just a quick video with what's been going on. Anyway, I have new internet. I can do uploading of videos now. I'd say that I'm probably about 95% settled. There's just a few bits and pieces that I still need to do, usually the bits and pieces of admin that you really don't wanna fucking do, like moving your car insurance and other nonsense, but it must be done. Anyway, so I'm mentally really close to being 100% here, but trading wise, I'm fine. So money's in the account, and just a very quick note, an important one, this spreadsheet will differ today 'cause I don't wanna fuck around with the spreadsheet. I don't have any time. I wanna just get on with the trading perhaps, and it'll all be adjusted tomorrow. So the spreadsheet will actually reflect a lower sum, minus 300 grand. There's what you would expect to see because I have to change figures everywhere to make the percentages work and you'll please forgive me for not doing it today.
01:01 Christopher Angus: Tomorrow, it will all be back to where it should be. And not that it's wrong today, it's just for reflecting a high balance as per the deposit. Yesterday was very, very hard. The volatility is in the fucking toilet again. Thanks a lot, guys. I managed to scalp out one tick. It was the hardest fucking tick I've had to scalp for a long time, because I bought it somewhere around here, like 16.23, and then I sold it around 8:30-8:45 for 16.33. So bought at 23, sold it at 33, and it ran against me, or it was going zero, one tick, zero, one tick. Two ticks, zero, one tick. So, and looked like it was gonna break out and eventually I just took the one tick and said, "Fuck this. Maybe I'll get something closer with the close?" But alas, no more potatoes for me that day, or you, sorry. But I'm not complaining, you know I like to whinge. I enjoy my job. Saying that, my motivation when volatility is this slow is poor, and I must apologize for that, because basically, when it's like this, I don't want to be near my computer 'cause it pisses me off and I don't wanna do work.
02:32 Christopher Angus: Because you start seeing things that aren't really there, because the movements are so small, and when the S&P is in this lock grind up, it kind of... You expect it to break down at some point, but you don't know when. And so, small movements become really magnified to you. I hope this is making sense, I'm speaking to you like you're an idiot, but you're not. But if the S&P breaks down five points, when it's been grinding really hard and hardly breaking down any, looks massive. And then you expect the VIX to pop, and then it doesn't, and you wanna take a trade and it's not easy. And, as I said, my motivation, when it's like this is not high. It's higher to go to a bar or talk to some girls or play on my Xbox or something. But I'm just telling you. I don't know why, 'cause it makes me look like a fucking lazy bastard, but whatever. So I think I've went through, it's kinda easy to lose money, because the VIX, if the VIX when it's... When the S&P is grinding like this, the VIX is just stepping down, obviously with a negative correlation to the S&P.
04:00 Christopher Angus: And there's a chance that you take, you buy the VIX, which is a safe trade, but it actually steps down and never, ever comes back to where you bought it. I've seen that happen like, 100 times. That's why my friend Chris lost money, because he... I said, "Sell the VIX." He bought the VIX, and then he kept buying the VIX, trying to average out, but it just never ever came back. So wherever he bought, it never came back and then it dropped four points and he lost a lot of money. So, whatever. But it's not... It's like I think yesterday, could have been the first day that I actually said, "I'm sorry. I've lost a tick." I think I was pretty close at one point. I thought this might be the first day when I'm apologizing. Luckily it wasn't, but when it stays like this, you can really expect perhaps that I might lose one or two ticks.
04:54 Christopher Angus: I suppose it's to be expected at this stage because I've gone quite a long time. Saying that, I pick my moments carefully, so you can see my motivation's low and I'm not trading, because I don't really see many opportunities. But I'm not losing money either, so it's kind of six, one half a dozen of the other. If I was taking a lot more trades, I'd be losing money, but I might be making more. I don't know. I like what I'm doing. I don't wanna fuck around with it. I'm really protective about what I do. VIX hedges; not gonna work out. Basically historically, I look back how they were performing against each other. About six months ago they moved about four points away from each other, in like a freak, splitting of the futures, and that would have cost about £400,000, so across all the accounts. So that's really not possible. And because you tend to hold them for long periods, you would let them let run against you quite a lot, like one maybe a point, at worst.
05:58 Christopher Angus: But if you're really trapped in a position where your a point down, and you're like down £80,000, you're inclined to wanna hold it a little bit more because you're expecting them to come back and they didn't. They got to roll over and the one expired and you just took the loss, and then you were fucked. It's not even a strategy that I wanna consider at this stage because I've just moved and I've got enough to fucking think about. Saying that, I've got a new strategy that I'm working on. It's completely autonomous. It's scalping micro amounts of money, not on the VIX, on like hundreds of different instruments, that high frequency trading strategy. I don't know why I brought it up because it's still far from any kind of seriousness, but it's running on the demo and it looks pretty good, but I have to run that for about three months, so I'll let you know.
06:49 Christopher Angus: A good thing on that is the rebate is pretty fucking high and consistent, so that's, it's pretty amazing. But it only takes one trade to wreck a strategy, so you're always looking for it. And I was thinking I might do a trade walk-through with you, just show you how the system works. I'd have to break the API, so all of the accounts weren't talking to each other. And do it small trades, say half the size, maybe on your small account. And then, maybe not, 'cause I'd be forcing a trade, might lose money. No. Rubbish idea. Sorry about that. I'm full of fucking shit ideas today. I think I've back tracked on everything I've said nearly, and I come across as lazy, so thanks a lot for everything. [chuckle] Just to remind you the spreadsheet is going to look different today because you have had a deposit. The money's come through and I'm not tweaking the spreadsheet 'cause I basically have to edit it to make the percentages work and I'd rather just wait 'til tomorrow when the screenshot will reflect the amounts in the account and I'll make a note on the spreadsheet. It'll make sense. I know, you're a very smart guy. Thanks for everything once again and back to business as usual.
08:29 Christopher Angus: I shall do the spreadsheet now and I'm looking at the action today. And the way S&P is still grinding higher, I am somewhat, what's the word? Unconfident. That wasn't the word, but that's a word, that we will struggle today. And I may make nothing, I may make one or two ticks. We just have to see how it goes, but we need a break now. Because you can see, look at the fucking VIX. It's in... Just look at this bullshit, man. Can you see this? Fuck, I hope this thing is recording. How do I make this bigger? Come on bitch. Oh, fuck it. Can you see how tight this range is? It's so close to impossible to make money, it's not even funny, and it just looks to be getting worse. So we need... There will be a break because the S&P's rallied like 70 points in a couple of days, 60 points; which is a huge amount.
09:47 Christopher Angus: So at some point, someone's gonna wanna take some profit and then everyone's gonna join in and then the VIX will go up a point and then we'll make a fucking load of money, but until the fucking day comes, we're going to struggle. Matter of fact, we cannot make any decent money until the S&P breaks down. Zero. Not zero. You can see we're really fucking grinding here and today looks worse unless we get a break. In fact, I might just go fucking to the bar right now. God, I'm mad. Oh, time to end the video. Bye.
Conman Christopher Angus is kicking off a confidence series, providing free video tutorials on how to defraud investors. This eleventh video is 6:50 & was shared on May 3, 2016. The criminal who shot these videos delivered over a 99% investment loss, as he simply stole the money and integrated it into other investment scams abroad. https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18693916.conman-christopher-angus-pay-back-just-1-2m-scam/
UK's Crown Police never followed the money trail.
0 minutes 15 seconds: states made 3 profitable trades day prior. and shows times of some of them.
4 minutes 30 seconds: does not go into trades trying to take only 1 tick. usually wants to try to get 2 or 3 to have a margin of safety.
5 minutes 5 seconds: discusses another fairly passive trading strategy which might be able to make about 0.4% per day & allow a solid daily compounding. keeps testing lots of different strategies.
6 minutes 30 seconds: might want to change his personal goal to keep going until he makes at least 100 million
00:00 Christopher Angus: Good afternoon A. Just a very quick recording today because there seems to be a little bit more volatility. So I don't wanna waste too much time with my big monologue. So the plan for today is just really to tell you what happened yesterday, pretty straightforward, there's a lot more I could talk about, but no time.
00:22 Christopher Angus: So yesterday, in summary, three trades. I think I had called out early that I'm selling the VIX just as I was selling the first one and I'm just gonna talk you through each trade. If you look at your screen, the first one came in just before 12:30 and then I sold it just on the open; so that's one. I don't know if you can see on this video 'cause those will move with the cursor I think. Trade two came again very quickly afterwards, I think I called that one out to you as well on Skype, I'm not sure. And I held that for just under an hour. Again, I didn't nail quite the top and I didn't nail quite the bottom but you know that's kind of hard trade because I need to be somewhat sure of a direction. And trade three, I got kind of really excited and when I said, I think I remember typing, "Fuck me. I think there's another one here." I took that a little early actually and that one went against me by, I don't know, one or two ticks. And then I held that 'til 7:40 and I took that off way too early. As you can see, it really broke down. I was bitching about that on Skype as well, but roughly made 10 ticks yesterday so 1%. Again, I was selling it. So I do small ball it a bit. I cut just a little bit of the edges, which means that I don't use my full risk when I sell it because, if it does go against you badly, it's better to be a little smaller. And that was my day.
02:22 Christopher Angus: As for today, there seems to be, or there was some market weakness this morning, and you can see that reflected here. At eight o'clock, there was a spike up of nearly a full point on the VIX. I was a bit late getting that one actually, I sent you there. Just around eight o'clock, but by then I thought it was... I didn't know how much steam it had so I just sort of sat on my hands a little. So I missed that one, unfortunately. It seems to be coming off a little bit though, so things seem to be a little bit volatile again, not like February, when the market was moving up and down 100 points a day. But that was also exceptional times. I don't know if we'll see that again for a while, but this is perfect for us. It's not just the volatility. Before, I didn't make money for like nearly a whole week, one week, because I was being... I wanted to not scalp one and two ticks up because it isn't the most efficient way of trading. It's better if you can just get one big trade and that's how I was trading at the time.
03:37 Christopher Angus: But like poker, I guess, you have to adapt to your situation. So if you're playing a very tight player you can't, and you have a very tight knitty player, you can't be very loose. Or if you're playing a very loose player, you've got to tighten up a bit. And so, it was just, I think, a matter of over a couple of weeks just adjusting to the market conditions with the changing volatility. So from very, very high to dead, which was, I don't know if you remember, that was just insane. And now it's picking up a little and I feel very comfortable in this area when things are very, very quiet, it's very hard, as you know, to make anything. Some days it just doesn't move at all and I don't scalp one tick. I don't go into trades intentionally thinking I'm gonna scalp one tick because that is... It's so marginal. If it goes wrong, you're probably gonna be losing one tick. So, I go into trades thinking I might make two or three ticks at the least. Sometimes I make one, sometimes I scratch and I just get the rebate, so basically get zero, but I collect the rebate.
04:53 Christopher Angus: And then finally, I'm still working on my new VIX arbitrage thing. That's going very, very well, still. Tests are running very smoothly. Each time we trade we're gonna collect a few thousand in rebate, depending on how big we go, two or three thousand at least. So that's gonna be like 0.3 plus, plus profit of maybe half of one tick; so 1/20 of a point which will be about 5000. So I reckon each trade will be worth about 8,000 and probably take two days for those to work. So we're gonna be averaging 0.4 per day. I'm so looking forward to this. We're gonna be starting very, very soon, in a number of weeks, maybe a month at most. I just, obviously I'm not rushing into anything because we need to make sure that actually I know where the kinda dangers lie; and I do.
05:47 Christopher Angus: But I just keep testing and running through everything and practicing. So that's gonna be a big win for us. It's gonna create a very, very good, solid foundation, 'cause right now it's like, make money some days, don't make money some days. At the moment the volatility suits us. We're making money every day and I've become quite aggressive with my scalping, but still I miss some days. Last week I only traded three days. I sat here for five, or 4 1/2, but we only made money for three. This is gonna change the averages. It's gonna make a solid 0.3 baseline every day, and then we'll be running this on the side. So I think the... It's gonna creep up nicely. I think finally, I'll just change... I think I might change my personal goal. I think I'll stop when I get to a 100 mil now, not 50, but we'll see. And that's it. I'm gonna run. I gotta do the sheet now, and then, I gotta try and do some trading, amongst other things. So thanks for everything, take care and catch you later.
UK investment scheme fraudster Christopher Angus is kicking off a confidence series, providing free video tutorials on how to defraud investors. This tenth video is 4:49 & was shared on April 28, 2016. The criminal who shot these videos delivered over a 99% investment loss, as he simply stole the money and integrated it into other investment scams abroad. https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18693916.conman-christopher-angus-pay-back-just-1-2m-scam/
UK's Crown Police never followed the money trail.
0 minutes 0 seconds: shows another screenshot of IG platform which is grainy BUT shows account balance which appears to be something like 1,548,478 GBP
1 minute 35 seconds: made just over 2% with the rebate
00:00 Christopher Angus: Good evening A. Just a quick video. I'm doing the video on the sheet the night before instead of the next day because I've got some shit to do tomorrow morning and I'm gonna miss the first part of the session. Probably only be back for the last 2-3 hours because I've got some stuff to take care of. Anyway, today went well, did a couple of trades. As I said this morning, eight o'clock this morning, I called Bon Trade with 1.5 times the risk on that I normally take. So we made a full... Nearly a full point this morning, 0.8, there or there abouts. And that was from here eight o'clock right to here just before 10 o'clock, that was nearly a perfect move for me. I was very, very happy with my performance there.
00:49 Christopher Angus: This afternoon you heard me bitching, as it ground lower and then went flat and then I said, "Actually, it looks like it's about to pop," and lo and behold I got in here. Look at your Skype time. I think it was just around six o'clock, which is here, and I bought at around 15:28. So here. And I rode it right up 'til about 8:30 here and I got out at... Just before a full point. So it was very good. Overall today... I think I've just done the sheets. I just need to do some screenshots, I'll do that now. We made just over 2% with the rebate, so it was like 2.1%, something like that. I can just do a screenshot... Screenshot of the sheet. Right, so that's that for now.
02:00 Christopher Angus: Tomorrow, as I said, I've got stuff to take care of so it's only gonna be the last few hours of the session. I'm just quickly gonna run through a couple of other things I've found. First of all, this is the S&P Wall Street capturing the spread. I probably will implement this at some point in the next like three months. It is a very slow trade, but it's very safe. The correlation is 0.99 between the two. They just walk in lockstep with each other. This took three days to come right though, and it's not that margin intensive. So I may add that to the little string of arrows at some point.
02:40 Christopher Angus: Number two is the VIX Verse, the VIX. Again, this is the second one, this took two days to come good, the rebate on here is about $4,500 which is massive, massive, massive and plus the profit. Now it's not the profit on the trade that excites me, it's actually the rebate, because I could probably do one of these once a day, once every two days and make very good money. So this is one future against the other. In this case, I'm selling a May and buying the June VIX, they walk obviously in lockstep and you're exploiting those micro-pricing inefficiencies between the two. It's a very safe trade. Even if one market goes up or down, these move together. So it's a highly controllable trade. The only downside is they take a long time so I'll be running trades for two or three days. Possibly... I'm gonna try and get them over one or two days, and maybe just go for rebate play all the time; rebate play, rebate play. But this if... If this was for real, this would have been like a full 1% eventually with the rebate. So it's very good.
04:03 Christopher Angus: And there was one other one that I wanted to show you, but there's not enough time. That was just a fun one. But yes, so overall, pretty good today. Two good trades, put on some decent risk this morning, May, that paid off well. This afternoon, I just had normal amounts of risk, but that also got... We caught such a big move. It was decent. So yeah, very, very good. Just to recap just did over 2%, and that's it for today. I'll be around for the last few hours tomorrow so I may catch you, I may not. Other than that, thanks for everything and great day, we will speak to you soon. Cheers, A. Bye.
Ill-reputed criminal Christopher Angus is kicking off a confidence series, providing free video tutorials on how to defraud investors. This ninth video is 11:41 & was shared on April 26, 2016. The criminal who shot these videos delivered over a 99% investment loss, as he simply stole the money and integrated it into other investment scams abroad. https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18693916.conman-christopher-angus-pay-back-just-1-2m-scam/
Crown Police never followed the money trail.
1 minute 30 seconds: arbitraging across vix future months: near month vs future month. this is something he claims he tested for a while and wants to put live soon.
3 minutes 15 seconds: states screenshot is of his software
6 minutes 0 seconds: picture of trading technologies order flow book, claims this was what he used to first start learning trading
11 minutes 20 seconds: states needs my address so he can get his lawyer to make some changes to documents
00:01 Christopher Angus: Good morning A. How are you? Yesterday was okay. I did a few trades, totalling about 0.4%, but I had to quit early yesterday. So, I'll do the sheet in a... A bit later. So, just to say I was around 0.4% plus the rebate, which will be bigger than normal because there were multiple trades that went on. Today is gonna be the day where I actually try and keep to the five minute video, so it's gonna be quite succinct. I'll direct you by putting... I'll just tell you when you need to look at the screen. So, been through yesterday's trade, our forecast for today, I think we're gonna have quite a strong day. So, it's a day to sell the VIX, basically. Everything looks really strong, market's on a turn anyway, so it's... Unless something changes, I think we'll close above 2100. So, that's yesterday and today.
01:17 Christopher Angus: Now, you need to look at the screen. What's coming up is, I think I've found a new edge. What you have here is two VIX instruments. But what I'm doing is I'm arbitraging the two months. So, the May VIX future and the June VIX futures. Now, I'm selling the May, because the closer you are to the cash, the more it walks in lockstep with the cash, and the further away, the more subdued it is. So, say the cash moves 2% in a day, the front month, so the May future, which is the one you can trade at the moment, might move say, 1.2. These are just random numbers just to give you an example. And then the June future might move, about 0.8. So, they move at different speeds, which creates opportunities, obviously. So, what I'm doing here, this is still in demo, and basically I've been testing this, and this is something that I want to start doing once the account's a bit bigger; probably in a few weeks to a month. Reasons are, number one, I can capture one tick of profit in this trade. That's 100,000 a point on each side. So, if the VIX moves one full point, I'll make £100,000, or you will, or we will. And if the VIX moves... So, basically, whichever way the VIX moves. So, the VIX is cut up into increments of tenths. So, one tick is worth £10,000 in this instance.
03:16 Christopher Angus: So, this is just a screenshot from my own software, because without my software, this would be very, very hard to do, because the moments are quite fleeting. So, I managed to capture a moment here where the VIX has crossed over and it's gone from kinda even. Well, it's come from about minus 20 grand because of the spread costs, and it's caught up, and it's now in a position of profit. That's half a tick, with that size it's 100,000, that's five grand. I guess we could capture that but I'm really looking for a bit more, because if there's some slippage, you can lose money. So, you wanna kinda have one tick in hand because sometimes you do get slip. The market moves as it closes, and if there's a few tenths of a second difference, slippage happens. Positive and negative, by the way. But obviously, you don't like negative slippage.
04:24 Christopher Angus: So just to sum this up, this is something that I wanna start doing soon. I just need to run through all the math again and iron out any quirks. But I think this is good, because on this trade we would have made three grand in straight up rebate before we even make a penny. And if I take it off here, that would have been like 8,000, this is, as I said, it's still in demo. And I'm looking for 10,000. I've looked at the P&L chart, 'cause I didn't have a profit and loss thing earlier, and basically it was up to 15,000 already. So, it does move and it's obviously been going for quite a while, but I think this is a way we can add, like probably, averaging 0.2, 0.3 to every day over the course of a month. They will come in bursts though. But this is something that I definitely wanna implement when the account's a little bigger, because very margin-intensive, as you can see. It's basically sucking up, I don't know, it would suck up the vast majority of the margin available.
05:38 Christopher Angus: So, next thing, quickly. I'm gonna take this off the screen so we don't get confused. Next thing is just, this is just very quick, just for interest's sake. This is an order book, this is the S&P futures using another platform called Trading Technologies. This is how pricing on really works if you read order flow. This is how I started, when I really got professional and serious, four or five years ago. And I often refer back to the guy that taught me, who was a scalper. This is what you learn on; no charts, just looking at this. And these are the bids and these are the offers. So, there's 179 contracts in a queue. The line, as you like to say in America, and then there's 150 in here. So, the price in this example, we're at 2091, and there's 115 people waiting to sell. Now, the price won't move up until you've cleared off those 115, and the price won't move down past 2090.75 until you've cleared up those 179 contracts. And once you have, then the price will step down to the next level; try and clear out those 227.
07:14 Christopher Angus: Obviously, it's not that clear, because the numbers are changing all the time, and there's lot of spoofing and stuff that goes on. So, sometimes you'll see there's a huge number. You can't really... There's nothing here, but sometimes you'll see like, 5,000, and that's just a spoof to try and catch some people. So people think, "Oh, that order book's really strong." And as people go to buy, they rip the order away, and the order book, the liquidity dries up and the price just rolls down. So, it's a very precise way of trading. It's a cheap way of trading because there's no spreads, but this is taxable because you can't do this through IG; there's no rebates. And, I guess, this is probably four times cheaper in commissions, but you've gotta pay for this platform and that's not cheap. That's several thousand a month.
08:10 Christopher Angus: And, anyway, I'm waffling a little bit here, but I wanted to show you how all this works and how the market really works. If you wanna see market microstructure and the mechanics of it, this is obviously the very top of it, where you can see the order book, the price, the bids and the offers and how the price actually moves. So you've got to chew through it. You've got a clear out these before the price will move up, and then clear out those before the price will move up. This green line incidentally is the high of the day.
08:40 Christopher Angus: And then last thing for the video. It's already running at eight minutes. It's just, I don't do technical analysis because I think you'd have better luck reading goat's entrails. But there are certain, I guess, way the lines form on the chart, which really give you a little bit of an indication of supply and demand. This is something which I've figured out on my own. This doesn't come from any book. This is just looking at stuff for years and seeing repetitive patterns. I don't know if you can see... I'll point to this second arrow in, here, I don't know if you can see this in the video. The arrow pointing here is pointing to... It looks like an arrow pointing... It's pointing down, then up, and then down. And if you... I call it a tooth because if you pull a tooth out, it looks like a tooth, right? So just doesn't have the crown. But when you see these and you see this kind of spiky, kind of forked tongue thing going down, it usually means things will go up and when you see them going up, so the forked tongue's spiking up here, this is a tooth upside down because the crown would be down here, right?
10:15 Christopher Angus: It's a little lopsided. It's not a perfect example, but you can see... When you see these things, it usually goes down. And here's one in reverse, and that's showing that the market's gone up. Obviously, it's not perfect, but if you see the... When you see something, where it's got really clear defined lines and then just that little part where the root of the tooth would go, it's usually a good sign. I don't know if that's... It's probably a bit of a rubbish one there, so I don't really like that one. But that one, I think that one actually worked, only to a small degree. Maybe you can scalp a point, but I call them... I used to call them witches' teeth and witches' hats because that's if you go the other way.
11:12 Christopher Angus: Anyway, in a bid to keep these videos short, I'm going to end it now. I'll do the sheet and I'll speak to you on Skype. I did send you an email just explaining about what I need from you in terms of... I need your address, so I can get the lawyers to make some changes to the document. And that's it and then I can get that across to you. Anyway, that's it for now. Cheers A. Bye.
Oxfordshire criminal fraud Christopher Angus is kicking off a confidence series, providing free video tutorials on how to defraud investors. This eighth video is 17:35 & was shared on April 24, 2016. The criminal who shot these videos delivered over a 99% investment loss, as he simply stole the money and integrated it into other investment scams abroad. https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18693916.conman-christopher-angus-pay-back-just-1-2m-scam/
UK Crown Police never followed the money trail.
1 minute 0 seconds: was trained about 5 years prior by a guy who scalps a few ticks per day from the treasury market. states that guy made like 1000% per year. also said you can't be taught to trade and sort of have to learn what markets fit you and your own way of doing things.
3 minutes 40 seconds: smart money vs dumb money
4 minutes 5 seconds: when you sell a market sell on an uptick & when you are buying a market buy on a down tick
9 minutes 15 seconds: for him trading is not about the money it is about playing the game against the smartest people and beating them. well you are not really beating them but you ride on their coat tails. you dont have enough money to move the markets but they do so you ride along and join them.
10 minutes 0 seconds: sees trading like the game of life & sees it as a free lunch. when you are taking money out of the markets all the time it is a free lunch. it is winning the game of life in a way that challenges convention and is extremely satisfying.
11 minutes 10 seconds: if you always think about dollar signs you will struggle because you are thinking about the money and not winning the game.
11 minutes 30 seconds: trade often. trade small. low volatility and more consistent returns.
13 minutes 30 seconds: what the markets do is exaturate people's personalities. the way you behave in life is usually the way you behave in markets.
14 minutes 30 seconds: if you take someone who is a wild gambler and they take bets that are much too big because they are greedy or whatever a gambler's mentality is - wants to make millions of dollars that month - well that doesn't work either. trading is risk management. it is managing the amounts of risk you have. managing your risks vs opportunities. if you take very small risks you can get out of almost anything because you have so much dry power. if you are not a degenerate lunatic it is a mathematical certainty you can come out of just about any situation.
00:00 Christopher Angus: Hello A, how was your weekend? Finally getting around to doing my thing for you. Bit of a heavy weekend with my daughter and a bunch of other not very useful things but extremely time consuming. So I was out for a lot of the day on Friday, and seeing my lawyer and then having to go pick my daughter up from school and so I lost a large portion of the day, but I didn't really miss a lot because there wasn't really a general direction as you can see from this. And basically, the whole morning, I think, looking at this, looking back at this, it was just like choppy, like there was no direction.
00:53 Christopher Angus: So, what am I gonna tell you today? I'm gonna give you a very big secret. It's not that big, but people don't really notice if you are a scalper, which is really how I started five years ago. I was trained by a guy that scalps the Treasury market, two, three ticks a day maybe. And he makes a lot. He makes... He was the guy that said to me, he does like 1000% return a year. And I have adapted to my own way. And one thing I wanted to say is, no one could really teach you to trade. You have to get all the information and make your own way. He liked the Treasury markets. I've hated them. They're so thick and liquid, that like it just never went anywhere. And at the time, it didn't really suit me. But you know, as time goes on, you change. So that's what it is.
02:02 Christopher Angus: So, I'll just talk through the trade here. I didn't really get settled down until later on, and I think I shouted out saying, around 7:00 or 7:32 or something, "I'm looking for a trade." Now, the market, obviously, had been falling off, and had fallen off really hard, so it was pretty clear which direction it was going in and looking at all the other stuff that you know. I decided to look for a spot. Now here comes the secret. When you are trading, and this really is hardcore stuff, right. When I say it's hardcore, it's not mentally hardcore, but it is... It takes a lot of precision and that's the hardcore part I'm talking about. And not just precision, it goes against what one would think. So, it's really counterintuitive until you know how the game works, which is the opposite way to the dumb money. So the smart money flows one way and the dumb money flows the other, and the smart money just keeps eating breakfast from the dumb money.
03:17 Christopher Angus: I don't really like that term, but it's true. I don't think dumb money is dumb. I think it's just uninformed money, and people that don't know how to play the game, and basically, they lose their money, which is sad. It genuinely is. But, it is what it is and you can't go against the smart money. I can't take a stand and say, "Fuck you, smart money. I'm gonna not go your way," because you're not gonna win ever. You're just gonna give them your money, fundamentally.
03:52 Christopher Angus: So, if you can't beat 'em, well, join 'em. That's it. So here comes the tip, beating around the bush. When you are selling the market, you sell on an up tick, and when you are buying a market, you buy on a down tick. Now, that's the secret. It's not a secret but it's like 99.99% of traders don't know that. Everyone's looking for movement, and so they wanna try and go with the flow. But when you're pretty sure what direction this is gonna go in, and by this time, it was like, blindingly obvious, you look for an up tick. And so, once it ticks up, you sell it, which I did.
04:44 Christopher Angus: And once you sell it, why do we do that? Well, it means because if the markets going... If you're very sure the direction, which by that time I was, 'cause looking at... I mean it's clear to anyone. I mean, a blind grandmother could see this. Why would I sell it when it starts to look like it's going the other way? Because it's not, basically. And it just continued down, you know. And that's why I just held it. I held through until a couple minutes past nine, I think, because I thought maybe we get two ticks. I was getting kinda excited. I thought, "Wow, this is kind of... I thought I'd get nothing today. Maybe I'll pick up two ticks." So whatever. And so, why do we do this? It's because you have to beat the spread and commissions and a bunch of other bullshit stuff they layer on top to make money off you.
05:37 Christopher Angus: So if you sell on the up tick, once it ticks down, you've basically beaten the spread, and you can scratch the trade. And that's the secret to trading, is not losing money. The pros don't lose or they lose so little it doesn't matter. And if they do lose, it's like one tick. So, if you sell on the up tick, and it immediately ticks down, you're even Steven, and you're collecting the rebate. So like I said, it's pretty hardcore stuff because A, you're going against the flow. It doesn't seem logical when your learning at the time, but when you actually understand how the game works, it's like you'll be... Because if I bought on the down tick thinking, "Okay, this is going down, man. This is going down." Immediately, it ticks up, then I'm two ticks out instead of being even by there.
06:31 Christopher Angus: So this was my entry, and then immediately ticked down, and so now I'm even. And that's my entry point. Never went worse than my entry point in nearly... In over two hours. Well, an hour and a half. That was a tick and a half, and then it started breaking down. It was going 1.5, 1 point, and 1.5. Remember that bit on Skype. And that was me thinking, "I'm gonna get two ticks here. I'm gonna get two ticks." I thought it was really good. So at the end, I ended up giving half a tick back because it was getting too close to the end and the weekend and all that stuff. It's just, you don't... And also, you're selling it. Don't forget. Can't risk getting caught. And if I did, I'd have to hedge it off straight away and it gets a little messy so...
07:33 Christopher Angus: Anyway, so I took the tick. I was hardly around Friday and I still just scalped one tick. I mean, it's the absolutely little, smallest amount you can take, plus a little rebate, so whatever. Saying that, I didn't miss an awful lot on Friday. As I said like it was choppy as fuck, looking back at this. And it's an easy way to make mistakes, I think. So I think I would have just been sitting on the sidelines anyway because it just wasn't going anywhere until it actually just fucked up around six o'clock and then it just broke down hard and then you got the direction that you need.
08:10 Christopher Angus: I mean, you can scalp one and two ticks going here, but you're just jumping in the ocean, not really knowing which way it's gonna go, so... And then, you're two or three ticks out, and you're starting to get a little nervous on a Friday. So I don't know, it just worked out really well. What can I say, thank you to the marketing gods, market gods. Thanks. but.
08:35 Christopher Angus: Anyway, so like I said on... I've got to... Moving on from this trade, I wanna just fly through some other topics. I think I might have said this, but... Or I'm pretty sure I did, but the volatility index, the VIX, is known for taking the stairs down, and the elevator back up. So that's why you can see I'm always a little anxious when you're selling it, because it doesn't take its time if there's a sharp move, so you usually wanna be on the other side. But as I said, if you're sitting here, it's not really a problem.
09:14 Christopher Angus: And then, I kind of touched on this a couple of times in Skype, but I didn't really clarify it beautifully. Like I said, for me, trading's not absolutely about the money. It's about winning the game. It's about playing against the smartest people and beating them. And like I said earlier in the conversation, you're not necessarily beating them, but you are winning the game because you ride along their coattails. We don't have enough money to move the markets like they do. So they move the markets and we join them, basically. So basically, we are part of who they are. I know this must be like, sound really evil to you, but it is what it is. And I'm proud of that. Not proud of... I don't wanna be part of a whole bent system, but I'm proud that I actually manage to beat the game because I see it as a game of life. I do.
10:14 Christopher Angus: I see it as a game of life. Why? Because I think it's a free lunch. I think I might have said this to you. My father always said to me, "No such thing as a free lunch, son. No such thing." Well, when you're taking money out the markets all the time, it's like, "Well, fuck you, Dad. This is a free lunch and I'm fucking eating it." So, funny how he wants to join me though. People are so fucking hypocritical. But still, to me, this is winning the game of life. And it's winning it in a way which is really not... It's challenging the status quo and I love that. I do. It's extremely fulfilling. It's more than 50% of the satisfaction that I get, is winning the game. It's not if... If you're driven by dollars, dollar signs, dollar notes, I think you're always gonna struggle. I do. Because you don't think straight, you think about the money, and not winning the game. And this just a big fucking game at the end of the day.
11:31 Christopher Angus: So, a little mantra for you, well, for me, I'll say it out loud. Trade small, trade often, low-volatility, and more consistent returns. If you hold big losers, you have incredible profit and loss volatility on your bankroll, and it's not good for your health or your wealth, for that matter. And I think I might have said this as well on Friday. You correctly identified that mental toughness is a very, very important aspect of trading. And I say this almost being embarrassed because it's almost like I'm taking away from some of my personality. I do see myself as someone that has almost coaxed out some of my emotional side.
12:30 Christopher Angus: Because when things are tough, when you're looking for an entry and nothing's coming for days and days and days, it's easy to try and force through trades, and you have to be able to have that resilience mentally, to sit and be calm and everything has to be clear in terms of decision-making. As soon as you feel pressure, you're gonna have a tough time. So my whole life is geared around trading. It's like trading is the center of my universe, and like every decision I make, that has nothing to do with trading, but I still, in some way, manage to connect it to trading, and see how my personality plays out outside of the trading world and how that loops back into my behavior and interactions with the market in the real world.
13:30 Christopher Angus: I'll end with just saying that, the way people behave... This is not my phrase by the way, but what the markets do is they exaggerate one's personalities. So, whatever you are and the way you behave in life are usually the way you behave in the markets. And that will magnify your personality quirks. I don't wanna say shortcomings 'cause I don't really believe in right and wrong. Fundamentally, I just think things are what they are and they just exist. But, if you have certain personality quirks, like you're too afraid to trade and you never take trades because you're afraid to make... You're afraid of loss, you'll fail as a trader because you're afraid to take any kind of risk. And that will be, as you can imagine, and I'm sure I'm speaking... Teaching you to suck eggs here but... That's an English saying, teach your grandmother to suck eggs. Look that up if you don't know what that means. I'm sure you do, but whatever. But if you take that as an example, if you take someone who is just a wild, wild gambler, and they take bets that are much too big because they are greedy, whatever a gambler's mentality is, wants to make millions of dollars that month, well, that doesn't work either.
14:56 Christopher Angus: Because, as I'm always harping on about, trading is risk management. It's managing the amount of risk you have, managing your risks versus your opportunities. And if you manage your risks correctly, you can almost do random things in the market. Don't forget that. If you take very, very small amounts of risk, you can get out of any kind of trouble because you have so much dry powder. So if you're doing one, two, maximum of 3% of your bankroll on the line at any one time, you'd like... Mathematically, it is an impossibility, depending on where you are, with a certain security, that if you are not a total degenerate lunatic, that you can come out of any kind of situation profitably. So though it's kind of... It's a very extreme thing to say and it doesn't really pertain to real life, like as such, but if you manage your risk correctly, and you have that mental toughness...
16:09 Christopher Angus: Oh, fuck you startup disc is almost full. Go fuck yourself. This says my videos are too long. Okay, I'm listening. Right.
16:17 Christopher Angus: If you manage risk correctly and you have that mental toughness, and can think clearly under pressure and make good decisions, then you can be a trader. If you lose the plot when your bankroll swings, and you put too much on, or you cut your losses too early, then you can't be. And if you're not comfortable with taking $5,000 and just going to your garden and just pouring fuel on it and setting it on fire and then standing there, thinking, "Wow, that was a lot of money that I just blew up." And watching your own personal feeling about that, well, then you've gotta consider how you're gonna feel at the time. I read that somewhere else. Take 5,000 bucks, go set it on fire, and see how you feel. See if you can take it 'cause that's basically exactly what you do if you lose your mind.
17:06 Christopher Angus: Anyway, kind of a weird video today. It was the weekend and I'm a bit more relaxed and a bit more kind of in a different mindset so... Yeah, sorry about the lateness. I'll do the sheet now and markets are not yet open. I have no forecast for tomorrow 'cause the markets are not yet open, but I will catch you on Skype in a number of hours, no doubt. Catch you later. Bye bye.
Oxford, UK-based criminal Christopher Angus is kicking off a confidence series, providing free video tutorials on how to defraud investors. This seventh video is 15:24 & was shared on April 22, 2016. The criminal who shot these videos delivered over a 99% investment loss, as he simply stole the money and integrated it into other investment scams abroad. https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18693916.conman-christopher-angus-pay-back-just-1-2m-scam/
Crown Police never followed the money trail.
0 minutes 7 seconds: saw his lawyer today and will tell me about it in a email
0 minutes 38 seconds: example trade from day prior
3 minutes 3 seconds: volatility takes the stairs down and elevator up
4 minutes 30 seconds: mental toughness important for trading. have to be calm and not driven by emotion or greed. I don't focus on the money. I don't need the money. I have enough of my own income.
6 minutes 25 seconds: advises me against trading myself because of the risk. yet 18 months later he tells me he had already stole and lost my money right from the very start. disgusting advice, particularly in light of him hitting me up for more money in September on the fraudulent claim that the broker increased the margin requirement size on the account he was managing because the account size was so large. unless one is a fraudulent criminal - like Chris is - it is very hard to lose literally everything you invest. repeatedly.
9 minutes 10 seconds: Chris tells me about the straightforward way of him signing official agreements aligned with all the lies he promised me prior was to make me the executor of his will. says short of doing that we would have to set up a complex trust. he then says he has "a big estate" and "it changes all the time"
13 minutes 10 seconds: after long spiel about the executor of will and importance of trust claims states "writing those things into some sort of contract would be worthless anyway because who is going to enforce it." he then states that us looking after his estate if anything were to happen to him would be very beneficial to him because otherwise his ex-wife would get a lot of money because his estate has a huge amount of liquid assets and she is irresponsible and "would just fuck it up anyway."
00:00 Christopher Angus: Good afternoon. Good evening. Hey, how are you doing? Very busy day, unfortunately, not trading. I went to see my lawyer this morning. I will tell you about that in a email. And I took my daughter from school and I'm just back. So today, I'm gonna try and keep the video as succinct as possible. Just, I'll start off by saying yesterday was a fairly long day. I got in just before the open at 16.58. And there's a green arrow on the screen if you're looking now. And then I think I got out around 16.78, so it was just basically two ticks. You can see there was one opportunity I could have taken a little bit more, but it was kind of going up and so I just gave a little back but decided to take what I had plus the rebate, so that was yesterday.
01:12 Christopher Angus: Today, market seems to be bottoming. It's pretty late in the day. It's an hour and a half since the open. Market's been really funky all day, but haven't really missed all that much because it's been a little up, a little down. Though it has looked pretty weak all day, it hasn't incredibly weak and I think part of the problem is Google had a really awful day yesterday after earnings was around 5% down. And so, that's dragged down the whole of the NASDAQ and in turn, the rest of the indexes because they're all linked up.
01:55 Christopher Angus: So my forecast for today is we should see a little bit of strength. It's now ten past four. So there is about four hours and 50 minutes left to go. From here, the S&P is at 2,083. I think we should see a little bit of upside from here, probably back to 2,090, it is Friday though, so that people might lay off some of the risk. But I think we will see a bit of a pullback from here back up anyway. So 2,083, ten past four here in the UK, so that would be... What time in New York? I think, ten past 11, or something like that.
02:51 Christopher Angus: So I'll go through a couple of things. Otherwise, the volatility... There's a good phrase which is, it takes the stairs down and the elevator up, so that's why you know that's a little of a good thing to bear in mind. Also, there are important times of the day when it comes to trading. And they start at 7:30 in the morning here in the UK when the European Futures open, then 8:00 or 9:00, and then it goes really quiet until around 1:00 in the afternoon here, which is 8:00 in the morning in New York. 1:30, a lot of the announcements come out, so that's 8:30 in New York time. And then 2:00 is when people really start heating up and that's 9:00 in the morning and then 9:30 in New York is when the markets open. Then it's pretty crazy for the first half an hour as everyone tries to get the bets on. Things pretty much... You have a busy morning until it's lunchtime for the traders, a couple of hours later, and then it goes really quiet until the last hour of the day which is 8:00 PM UK time, 3:00 PM New York time. And that's called the Hour of Power, and that's when you usually see the last big moves of the day. I just wanted to sort of run that past you because it's interesting.
04:34 Christopher Angus: You hit the nail on the head last time when you spoke last night when you said mental toughness. I mean, I think that's the most important thing you need when you trade. You need to be very, very resilient and very focused and basically unaffected by things that are going on around you. I don't mean stuff in the physical world but in the mental world. If things aren't going that well, you need to remain very, very calm under pressure, because otherwise, as soon as your emotions take over, you can't think and you start to make very, very poor decisions and you chase losses and on the other side of that, get greedy, which also affects your judgment really poorly. And that's why you hear me... I don't talk about numbers or money, because it's otherwise, the numbers are fairly, fairly big. You know and you can easily get carried away with yourself and so, something which I've learned over time is, that I need the money. I have enough of my own income, so that doesn't... At the moment, I'm just totally detached from it. It's just about doing a job. And that's the way you gotta be. I think in a way, it's maybe a little easier for me because if you were trading your own money, that's kind of... You can't detach yourself as well as I can.
06:03 Christopher Angus: A friend of mine said to me, if any of your friends... This guy is like a super professional trader for 20 years. He said something which was like, what to do if someone wants to trade, and he always says, "Tell them don't." And I've learned that lesson. So you said, you said Gio said to you that you'd be good at it, and I think you probably would be, but not without significant pain. And of course, there's risk attached to that as well. If you get too many early successes, and then you have a few losses, it can really fuck your head up, and your bank balance, basically. So you need to be careful if you do wanna try it. That's all I'm saying. I don't suggest it. I don't suggest trading any more to people. I've just seen too many people hurt themselves and I think you probably could do it, but I think it's like going swinging with your wife. Yeah, it sounds fun and maybe bring some spark back into your relationship or whatnot, but there's risk attached to these kinds of... To these things. Lots of upside, but lots of down side and you have to weigh up whether you want to take those risks.
07:27 Christopher Angus: I think you saw yesterday. I mean yesterday seems a long time ago now, doesn't it? But yesterday, I called market weakness and the markets broke down. I said we would end up below 2100, we ended up at 2090. So I have thought about running a tips business, that's no joke, because I'm fairly good at calling direction, in a very, in the short term, in the ultra short-term, over hours. Longer term, you don't know. I think we discussed that last night. I can tell you where the S&P is gonna be in 10 minutes, can't tell you where it's gonna be in the year. No one knows. But from a statistical point of view, what's just happened in the very recent past is what's likely to follow in the very near future. That's something I have worked out for myself. Not that it's extremely obvious but whatever has just happened is likely... There's likely to be a continuation of that process and that's something too that I thought I'd run it past you and I don't know why I've just said that, but I've considered lots of things. One of them being a tip service. Anyway, when I'm selling my software 'cause it's pretty useful, and... Yeah, so I went to see the lawyer today, as I said. It's kind of... There's a straightforward way of doing it and a not straightforward way of doing it. I'll just give you a brief summary before the email.
09:10 Christopher Angus: The straightforward way of doing it is to make you the executor of my will, because that way, you can determine where the money goes. That's the money for my whole estates, which would be fine by me. If you're not in the UK, there's no tax issues around that. Also, debts always paid first, depending on how we structure it. But I think the simplest way is to make you executor of my will. And then you can be the one who will give yourself the money basically and that's the simplest way. Otherwise, you've gotta set up really complex trusts, which then protect the money from my estate. So, as I said, I'll follow this up. If you wanna go the simple route, I can change my will. I'll just speak to my probate lawyer, and so I have like a managed will service because I have quite a big estate, and it changes all the time. And basically, I can change my will within a few weeks, I guess.
10:41 Christopher Angus: And then, what I guess I'd like to do is, there's a few stipulations like, just about where my daughter lives basically, and the amount, and giving my... I'm giving her mother, my ex-wife, just an amount of money every month that would come from my own estate, obviously. That's already been provisioned in there, so it's got nothing to do with us. And then, anything that's left over is not spoken about. It's only given to my daughter on the provisor that she buys a house and other illiquid assets, like under no circumstances do I want her to get a large sum of money when she's young. Nor do I want her to be drip fed money, because it just removes any impetus ambition and motivation to do any sort of work, if someone's getting like four-five grand a month for the rest of their lives. I'd rather she got nothing, and that's the truth. I'd rather you just kept the money, because it just ruins people. I've seen it too many times.
12:00 Christopher Angus: So those are kind of my wishes. I mean, a lot of this is done on trust. Anyway, I'll be dead, so I won't care, but I trust you guys to do the right thing, to make the right judgement calls. And I'd rather you do it than some professional executing estates kind of service, because then, they just follow things to the T. If my daughter was being irresponsible, you're gotta cut her off, that kind of stuff. So I think, in a way, that me ensuring that if something happens to me in the next couple of years, that you're taken care of, you get your money back. But on the other side, I think a lot of the kind of nuance details are really down to a trust thing, because I'm not one that likes a lot of kind of "if this, that", like making really in-depth contracts. I trust you. I hope you trust me. And I don't really wanna... I know that you'll do the right thing because you know what I want. I have a document with what you want. And I think writing those things into some kind of contract would be, I guess, kind of worthless anyway, because who's gonna enforce it? It's just a matter of trust.
13:27 Christopher Angus: So, I feel very happy that you guys would look after that kind of thing for me, because otherwise, her mother would end up with a huge amount of money. My estate is worth a lot of money. I've got a few illiquid assets. And she's quite irresponsible. And she would just fuck it up anyway, and so therefore, punish my daughter. So, I'd rather just, if that's okay with you, I'll follow this up with a sort of more formal email. But I think, change my will, then you're protected. I wanna add some other documentation to that, then that's fine. Once you agree, then I talk to my probate lawyer. And they can sort the will out. And then, I guess you could see a copy of that. I don't know. We have to keep talking about this.
14:31 Christopher Angus: So... I have lots of things to say, but I'm actually gonna cut this video short because I've got to do the sheet and try and squeeze a few trades in and cook dinner. And it's not gonna be a big work day today. So, that's kind of the news. That was yesterday's trade. As I said, market was at what, 2083. I expect it to go up, so I might short the VIX if I see it moving a couple of ticks off and call it a day if I get two or three ticks in, 'cause I don't wanna be in my office all night when my daughter is just sitting, playing Minecraft, or something. I need to see her 'cause I only see her every other week. Anyway, that's just my own kind of neurosis talking there. But yeah. That's it for now. And I'll speak to you soon. Bye.
Convicted fraud and self-confessed criminal Christopher Angus is kicking off a confidence series, providing free video tutorials on how to defraud investors. This sixth video is 20:02 & was shared on April 21, 2016. The criminal who shot these videos delivered over a 99% investment loss, as he simply stole the money and integrated it into other investment scams abroad. https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18693916.conman-christopher-angus-pay-back-just-1-2m-scam/
Crown Police never followed the money trail.
Christopher Angus is associated with Stella Huh and Timothy Barton, who stand trial in the United States on November 2, 2026.
2 minutes 20 seconds: highlighted an example trade which was allegedly made on april 20th
2 minutes 45 seconds: mentions how his VIX trades have so much less risk than trading the S&P 500 directly
3 minutes 50 seconds: shows a chart to explain why he likes VIX so much
5 minutes 0 seconds: talks about hoping bankroll is higher by the time VIX spikes up at some point
6 minutes 0 seconds: mentions might have to trade more aggressively and scalp smaller gains in the face of tigher trading ranges
6 minutes 15 seconds: have to take a low risk low reward making tiny fractions of a percent per day playing small ball
8 minutes 0 seconds: got rid of his girlfriend so he could focus on trading full time
9 minutes 30 seconds: market has a rhythem and you have to focus. views self as strataverious which has to be in tune. needs calm and absense of stress or surprise to focus on market.
14 minutes 28 seconds: again says dislikes the term trading and it is risk management, risk management, risk management that he does. you could do an almost random strategy and still make money so long as it is tied to strong risk management.
19 minutes 20 seconds: does not like to set performance targets because if you set them then you start to take on unneeded risk to try to meet those targets
00:01 Christopher Angus: Good morning, good afternoon and good evening Aaron and Geo. How are we today? I'm doing well. It's pretty early in the morning, it's just before nine o'clock. I just wanna talk through what happened yesterday, what might happen today and some other little anecdotal stories, which may be fun. So yesterday was a bit of a boring day; low risk, low return. I've done some arrows. If you're not looking at the screen, you can just look at it now quickly. Basically, the arrows show where we got into a trade, I said, on Skype, "Okay, I'm taking a trade." And you said, "Nice." It was like 18.24, I think 6:24 PM, and I did this because I saw the dollar shooting up and also there was no risk really, because it had been bouncing along the bottom. Of course, there's actual risk but it's very, very, very small. A risk of a blow up is zero. The risk of substantial loss is zero. In terms of what's the worst that could have happened yesterday, I could have taken a one tick, two tick loss or held overnight.
01:20 Christopher Angus: So yesterday, I small balled it because the market had have been fucking around all day, as you'd seen, like a false start, false start, false start. So we took 0.3 points out of the VIX, although we didn't make that much because... I need to do numbers, but I did come in a lot smaller, maybe two-thirds of the size, something like that. So, you can see, we come in here. It ran against me two ticks, but I was pretty comfortable with that, because during the whole day it just wasn't going any lower. And this is yesterday the future rolled over, so this was gonna get a lot more stable. So we got in here; this chart looks extreme doesn't it? But there's only half a point between [chuckle] here and there; it's nothing. And then I said, "Are you there? Are you there? Are you there?" Somewhere around here. And then we just ran it right up to the close. I think, kind of there, whatever. And it was just like that, buy low, sell high.
02:38 Christopher Angus: I don't know why everyone doesn't do that. I once said that to another trader. "Well, hey man, why don't you buy the VIX?" And he's like, "Why?" I was like, "'Cause there's no risk." He's like, "Yeah, but, you know, just trade the S&P like I do." I was like, "Well, isn't there like lots of risks?" He's like, "Well, yeah, but just trade it." I was like, "What? Just trade something with no downside risk. All upside." He was like, "No. Why would you? Buy some penny stocks then." I'm like, "You know it doesn't work like that." People just don't like challenging the status quo. I think if you are... Went to college, and you did some finance degree and you decided to become some kind of bonds trader or something, not that a lot of traders go to college and do that shit, but usually people who are good traders don't go to college, I think, from what I've seen, they are street fighters. Not as in fight in the street, but their business acumen is learnt on the streets.
03:34 Christopher Angus: Anyway. I'm showing you this next chart here, if you're not looking, please look, as to why I like the VIX. I'm hating this chart, it's so long. Here you can see, the hard right edge here, that's where we are; very, very low volatility. But what follows low volatility is high volatility. As sure as night follows day, and day follows night, low volatility is met by high volatility and vice versa. Now, I actually saw this coming. This went up to like 60, I think, on the futures. And I was in it, thankfully, but I got out like mega early 'cause I didn't realize how sharp that move was gonna be, and at some point, we are going to be in another move like that, and I will be there. And this moved like 40 points in a day. Now, if we have 5% of the bankroll on because I see this coming or 10% of the bankroll, 10 times 40, that's kind of a lot, or even five times 40. It's gonna be a good day.
05:03 Christopher Angus: So hopefully we'll have built the bankroll up a bit more by the time that comes. And you can also, on the converse side, see why selling the VIX from a low level if you aren't here and to pay attention to what's going on is kind of dodgy, 'cause this could really fucking hurt you. So when you're selling, you're always very, very conservative, especially at a low level. Like once it got down here, you could've sold it and done extremely well. So there's gonna be some geopolitical event or some exogenous shock to some fucking economy and that will pick things up. I reckon I'm gonna have to change a trading strategy and just trade more aggressively and scalp 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 at the market for the next few months, every day. It's not really what I've been doing. I don't know if I've said this already, but if we keep waiting to make... Just wanting to make the nice big clean moves, I think we're not gonna make a lot. So I have to take a lower risk, lower reward approach. Not that there's a lot of risk in what I do anyway, but this is very low risk, very low reward and making like, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4 instead of making a 1% a day, you've gotta take into account maybe make like 1.5, 2% a week.
06:40 Christopher Angus: So a little bit of a change I decided to make last week, because the system was stalling, stalling, stalling, so we have to small ball it, unfortunately. I have to put on smaller bets, if you wanna put it that way, and yeah, just take little, small chunks out the market rather than looking for the big chunks. They come, and I'm here, but at the moment when there's extremely low volatility and there's no pick-up, we'll just make a little bit everyday, hopefully. You can see yesterday how hard I had to work to make that 0.3 on the thing, and because I small balled it, we didn't even make 0.3. As I said, I think maybe made like 0.2, plus the rebate. So something similar to the day before. I'll have to have a look in a bit.
07:49 Christopher Angus: So, some other things. I got rid of that new girlfriend of mine. I don't like people that drink a lot of alcohol; they piss me off. And also, I don't really have anything to give anyone at the moment. You can see how much time this takes out of my life and I really enjoy it, but I just don't have anything to give anyone else. So I don't wanna be a dickhead and take someone on or be with someone and then kind of ignore them because I'm working really hard. I don't even call it work. I'm doing my hobby really hard and I just don't have the time. Maybe in a couple of years, three years, when I'm... When we've got to where we wanna be, I'll have more time. But I don't really wanna be with anyone either. I just don't feel like I want the irritation to be honest. I have no patience. So I just maybe think I'm not that ready anyway, but you can see how intense this is.
09:03 Christopher Angus: And when I look back, with a lot more self-awareness, I sort of laugh to myself and I think, "No wonder my girlfriend left me." Because I think women need a lot more emotional interaction than men do. I'm generally speaking. And when I'm here and doing this, I'm not here. I'm doing this and this is where I'm living; like in my computer. It's like I become part of the market in a way. I get like... It's almost like the market has a rhythm and you have to really be there to get into the rhythm and that's why I get really irritable and funky, like people come visit me and the phone rings or something, because it breaks my rhythm. And I think I said in one of the videos, I'm like a Stradivarius, I play very nicely until something happens and then I'm a little off key, and it takes me a while to get back depending on the size of the shock.
10:07 Christopher Angus: And I'll tell you a little anecdote, because I'm reading this trading book and this guy was like a superstar trader for this firm. Made money every single day and didn't lose money for years. And then all of a sudden... He was trading stocks, right? All of a sudden, he lost money every day for two weeks. His boss came to him and said, "What the fuck's going on?" He's like, "I don't know. So, I can't make any money." And so he said to him, "What's going on in your life? Any weddings, funerals, birthdays?" He's like, "Oh, yeah, my daughter was born a couple of weeks ago." And that's pretty typical of traders. They really can't be disturbed mentally, not like mentally disturbed, but to have funky things going on in their life, especially me. I hate funky things. And I wear seven... Well, I've got seven shirts and they're all the same color, the same... The same four pairs of jeans, all the same color, same style. I hate change, and I just like things to be calm. I don't like any kind of stress in my life. And I think unexpected things cause stress.
11:22 Christopher Angus: So, I know I went off on a little bit of a tangent there. Oh yeah, I said I was... I feel the market. Sometimes... This is, I guess, when I know I can feel something coming, and it really it's like... It literally is a feeling. You're taking in a lot of data, and it is a gut feel. And what's a gut feel? It's all the things you know and you see to create a sort of decision or a feeling. And, I guess, have you ever seen one of those pictures that are made up of like millions of little other pictures? That's sometimes how I see trades developing, is like it's a picture. Imagine those tiny little pictures, kind of in a sci-fi way, coming together and there's so many different little parts to it, and then some of them are leaving, so until you can actually see the picture performing with these tiny little pieces are the picture starting to come together, at a rate that's faster than they are leaving, 'cause of course, certain signals are improving and certain ones are getting worse all the time and you have to know like, with Google's secret sauce, which one... How much weighting to put on things and the weightings change depending on what's going on.
12:55 Christopher Angus: It's very hard to articulate how decisions are made. It's not really that binary, because there's so many variables, and the decision points are constantly moving. But once they start to develop, they work. And I think talking to you has actually helped me realize that it's not that straightforward. And also, my buddies all losing money. They seem to be able to make the perfect decisions, just the opposite sides, so they should fade themselves, maybe.
13:38 Christopher Angus: Anyway, talking of Google, I once sat next to a business executive, ex-Googler, on the plane, and he started his own pay-per-click agency. He used to work for... Not Party... Poker Stars, and he was running their pay-per-click campaign as a consultant, and he said... The one thing I remember talking to him about was, "What does Google look for in running good accounts?" And he said, "Google care about three things. Click-through rate, click-through rate and click-through rate." And that brings me on, or links into, what I wanna say. I don't really like the word, trading, there's, lack of better descriptive, non-claim and sure ways of describing things, I think. So, I just have to call it trading. But in fact it's actually risk management. So my... It's risk management, risk management, risk management.
14:33 Christopher Angus: That's what you are. And if you actually take the time and study risk management, which I have done, you realize that you can do almost random things in the market and make money; that's a little secret there. And if you can find a good strategy, and actually know what you're doing, tie that up with strong risk management, and you're not a fucking lunatic, you can make money. Where most people go wrong is they go too big. And then the people are very highly geared and they lose their money. But if you have strong risk management, and you understand how the game works, I don't see how you can't make money, genuinely. And I say this to people, "You're not making money in the market, right? Why the fuck are you asking me anyway?" But let me ask you this question.
15:34 Christopher Angus: If I gave you $10,000, and your job was to lose that money because everytime you lost a dollar, I gave you a dollar. So that 10 grand's not yours, it's mine, but I want you to lose it. But everytime you lose it... For every dollar you lose, I will give you a dollar. Do you think you could lose money to make money? Does that make sense? So could you lose money as effectively as you do now? Or would you start to make money? People are like, "Oh, I don't think I could. I don't... I think yes. I definitely think I could lose it." I'm like, "Okay, go try it on a demo account somewhere." And it's the same. It's just a fucking mindset. It's just a mindset, and that's the secret. Buy low, sell high. Sell high, buy low. Don't go too big. You'll be good. You might not make a lot, but you're not gonna fucking lose your house. Anyway, I don't know anyone that's lost their house, but I'm sure people have.
16:56 Christopher Angus: So, I have some other things I wanted to say. So yesterday I said, I think, I could feel strength at the time and I like to use the word, feel, but today I see weakness. Yesterday it was at 2097, when I made the video it went to 2005 pretty like within two hours and then got kinda stuck around the 2100 area, which is normal, because um bit whole numbers there's a lot of buying and selling going on there. So it's very hard to break away from those areas.
17:49 Christopher Angus: So what do I see today? Based upon the little information I have, no Bloomberg to know if there's anything going on. Haven't looked at the earnings calendar. Haven't looked at the economic announcements calendar. Just pure price action and looking at the correlating instruments, I see a weak market. Treasury is actually down and the dollar basket is flat. But again, just the way things move, I will say that at some point we will be below 2100 today, and at the moment, we're at 2105, and I think we're gonna struggle today. Not us, but the market in general, is going to struggle today a little bit. Maybe some big buyer will come in which run it up again, but I think there's a lot of exhaustion from what I can see. Yesterday I was fucking exhausted and I'm sure the markets are exhausted, but not for the same reason. They just made such a tremendous move. Today might be good, might not be. As I said, we'll make a little, or make a lot. Worst case we'll make nothing. That's the way of the game.
19:22 Christopher Angus: I don't like to set myself targets because I think as soon as you set targets for yourself, you start to take on risks because you wanna meet those targets, so whatever comes comes. Whatever doesn't come, doesn't come. It's just the way it is. Over time, this makes money. So I am looking forward to today, as I do everyday, and I guess I need to do the sheet now and I'll catch you on Skype a bit later Mr A. See you later. Bye for now.
