Eykyn, Bill

From his very first interview as a cub reporter (with Richard Dimbleby in the actual biplane used by Bleriot half a century previously), Bill Eykyn has been a journalist, writer and broadcaster. So he came to the market with a very different perspective from the norm. He started, like so many, with a newspaper ad. This one led him to trade FTSE options on BBC2 through a broker with hot tips. After the obvious happened, he was introduced to the FTSE Futures, using a special TV aerial for the data feed. Then options on the American grain markets (via satellite and a clunking DOS program), includ...