Fraud Christopher Angus Bankrolls Money Through Embezzlement

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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.

http://www.seobook.com/stella-huh/criminal-case-docket-sheet%204-22-2026-(22-cr-00352).pdf

Video Highlights

• 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

A version of this video is available for download at
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u6j6z6x60lyxkew/video%205%202016%20apr%2021.flv?dl=0

Video Transcript

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.