{"id":46863,"date":"2012-11-21T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/entry\/?guid=67883eb767c7a8c30a30f9614fe5a37b"},"modified":"2012-12-06T16:07:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T16:07:49","slug":"rogue-traders-wall-street-wolves-adobolileesonbelfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrologyblogger.com\/?p=46863","title":{"rendered":"Rogue Traders & Wall Street Wolves – Adoboli\/Leeson\/Belfort"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ewan McGregor as Nick Leeson in Rogue Trader<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

On 20th November, 2012 Kweku Adoboli was <\/span>convicted of the biggest fraud in British history and <\/span>sentenced to 7 years imprisonment. Adoboli is the latest rogue trader ‘to go feral’, bloodshot eyes firmly fixed on a computer screen long into the night praying for a miracle. T<\/span>he Swiss global financial giant UBS’s U.K investment banking arm was taken to the brink of collapse by this<\/span> out of control, <\/span>inexperienced City trader who was<\/span> recklessly trying to recoup the losses he had incurred by using precious little financial rigour, insurance or safety nets. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Kweku Adoboli ‘wept copiously’ during his testimony, 20th November, 2012<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This was no ordinary financial deception, this was a chaotic play with money as if it were a board game of Monopoly. Money was being badly juggled with on a enormous scale. UBS money was being shuffled about frantically for two to three years in ‘off the books’ trading. However, this was real money, in real time, figuring out at \u00a37 billion at one point and ending up as a final<\/span> loss of \u00a31.5 billion in the courts.<\/span> His actions also cost some of his fellow traders their jobs, accounted for the resignation of the Chief Executive and the wipe out of \u00a32.7bn ($4.5bn) from UBS share prices. <\/span>The Judge, on delivering the sentence said that he found Kweku Adoboli to be ‘<\/span>profoundly unselfconscious of his failings’. <\/i>
From Adoboli’s date and place of birth, a \u2018flat chart\u2019 (no birth time), there is a very descriptive picture in place,<\/span> especially the telling planetary configuration of the T-square involving Mars, Jupiter, possibly the Moon, Sun and Uranus.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Kweku Adoboli Astrology birth chart (source wikipedia<\/a>\/BBC News<\/a> flat pm)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The Sun is in the sign of the \u2018The Trickster\u2019 or \u2018The Trader\u2019, namely Gemini. This solar Gemini, the slight-of-hand sign is placed on the critical zero degree. Planets at zero appear to be fresh out of the trap and as such express themselves in a raw, uninhibited, undiluted and unmodified way. It is as if the \u2018owner\u2019 of that energy is unsure how to steer all that power, rather like a toddler at the wheel of a Ferrari. <\/span>The prosecutors had seen Adoboli as an out of control gambler that did not use the financial safety procedures and requirements. One, Sasha Wass told Adoboli that he was an ‘accomplished liar; after his explanations on the recorded phone call with the UBS accountant who later also got his reluctant e-mail. <\/span>
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This Sun is also opposed by Uranus, Lord of the unexpected and master of surprise. This Uranus ‘shocker’ forms an out-of-sign opposition since it is in 23 degrees of Scorpio. Only a few days before Adoboli\u2019s sentencing there was the Total Eclipse of the Sun at 21 degrees Scorpio, exactly conjoined, his personal Uranus fused with the Eclipse, things would never be the same again for this young man. (Scorpio Solar Eclipse – The Path of Totality<\/a>). The rising City trader star with the big life style came crashing down to earth in financial chaos <\/span><\/span>despite his big salary and mighty bonuses it was found that he was leaking money all the time and taking out serial payday loans to try and cover his own personal trading losses as well. Before his arrest Adoboli had changed his Facebook status to ‘I need a Miracle’. The day he had to confess after being pressed by the UBS accountant Adoboli went to a church near his office to pray.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Adoboli’s Sun\/Uranus opposition registers his inner restlessness and willful nature, convinced of it\u2019s own \u2018Truth\u2019, regardless of what society may think, or say or believe. <\/span><\/div>\n

A collegue described him as being ‘unfriendly, unpleasant, superior.. with a rule that he should never be asked the same question twice.’ <\/i><\/span>This Sun\/Uranus line of tension is also aggravated by Mars, Jupiter and possibly the Moon (no birth time), forming a pressuring square aspect to both the Sun and Uranus. His Sun\/Uranus opposition is also an indication that for a significant period of his life, Adoboli could have felt like the odd one out. It is possible that he could have felt alienated or even rejected deep down and may have never really felt included. At heart he knew himself to be different. He was born in Ghana, whose annual GDP is \u00a31,000, to a Ghanian U.N official who put him through a \u00a320,000 a year British private education as an overseas boarder and University, where he studied e-commerce and digital business. Recruited by UBS and picked out as a potential ‘rising star’ he had also come with a need for showy, wild parties and call girls, apparently emulating ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’, Jason Belfort.<\/span><\/p>\n
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‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ and a second book ‘Catching the Wolf of Wall Street’ are financial trader’s, Jordan Belfort own account of his 90’s life of drugs, women, yachts, fast cars and earning tens of millions before being sent to prison for defrauding investors. <\/span>