Firstly my apologies to you all for having absented myself, unannounced, from this, the jewel in the crown of all the BF fora.
I'm obviously aware that many of you had hitherto looked to me for guidance and insight in this, the most complex of all financial sectors. LMAX : the Hardest Game in the World, Hardest Game in the World. You'd better believe it guvnor.
The truth is I've been undercover, on a special mission to determine the identities of the ultra-secretive people at the very apex of the LMAX world. A world of private jets, unattainable women, expensive hotels, and where the big boys think nothing of sending a chauffered stretch limo to fetch champagne-guzzling glove puppets for a night's debauched carousing. A world capable of changing the price of those nice Tiger Baps ANY TIME they like, and without a pricing gun either. A world that even the big Hedge Funds envy.
Obviously it's been a difficult 18 month project, and there were times when my cover was blown. On more than on occasion I was intimidated by sinister looking men, but there's no turning back on a mission like this.
Anyway, after 18 months of detailed research, usually near closing time in UK pubs just after a Sky Sports football match has been on, this is the consensus view of those replica-top wearing cognoscenti I interviewed. And what a list !
1. 'Oggy' out of 'The Body Farm'
2. 'Richard' out of 'Pointless'
3. Chizzy Chisnall
4. 'What the **** are you on about pal?'
Well, 'how's about that then guys and gals?', as my old schoolchum Jimmy Young used to say. I personally have the gravest doubts.