Billy Hanks

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Billy Hanks was a lower east-side scumbag synthetic alpha dealer in the swinging naughties.

He cut his product it with all kinds of low-life scrapings to boost its yield. This was not your non-usual coke-lite levered beta: Billy dropped in all kinds of Front-runners, insider intel, short squeezes, corner action. Billy’s medicine could bang you up bad: just a tipoff is all it took. The high lasted a week but the downer was a killer.

Billy copped to a market manipulation rap in 2010 and the cops shut him down. He went way for a stretch but what do you know, hallelujah he found God and got time off for good behaviour. He got right back in the game.

But twist:Our Billy-Boy’s a clean skin now. The CFTC goons tailed him solid for your years. Parked up outside his family office. He says “how can I? I don't deal no more. I’m like but you are generating 200 large every week. What can you possibly need all that for? He looked at me. “need ? Need? I deduce that you don't understand the game.”

“Is for my own use. What can I say? My missus has expensive taste. Her daughter is even worse. She’s a bad influence. and he checks out legit. he’s largely clean and generating good alpha