Vladimir has been fascinated with financial matters for as long as he can remember. An engineer by trade, he spends his free time studying history of financial markets and associated human behaviors, reading various financial reports, analyzing policies, discussing various theories on related subjects and applying some of those theories in practice, out of his own accounts.

Vladimir doesn't manage other people's money and doesn't trust anyone to manage his.

His co-workers can barely tolerate his frequent attempts to switch subject of any conversation into financial area, so he has to resort to various online means of discussion such as message boards.