Essex traders who made £491m in one day face US legal challenge

Dawn was still hours away when the Essex Boys crept out of bed and fired up their banks of computers. With their high-powered machines, they could speculate at lightning speed on the lucrative commodities markets 3,500 miles away in New York. And in the bare-knuckle trading pits where their mentor, Paul ‘Cuddles’ Commins, had learned … Read more