Richard Z. Ptardio ✓

@RichardPtardio · The City of London · joined 13 Sep 2024

35 years on trading desks in London 🇬🇧 Hong Kong 🇭🇰 and New York 🇺🇸 I'd be most grateful if you'd subscribe to my newsletter below.

35 020Followers

4 835Following

8 164Posts total

505.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views5 554this account1 637median for 10K–100K

Reach, %15.86%this account5.01%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.20%this account1.81%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	5 554	1 637	3.39×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	15.86%	5.01%	3.17×
Engagement rate	1.20%	1.81%	0.66×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

226.5K27 Aug

1.9K

4.9K

151.2K1 Sep

5K2 Sep

92.3K3 Sep

10.7K

6.1K4 Sep

4.8K

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.78%27 Aug

1.84%

1.06%

0.43%

1.29%1 Sep

1.10%2 Sep

1.49%3 Sep

1.41%

1.00%4 Sep

2.79%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.81%.

What the audience does

Likes79.8%4 915 in total

Reposts4.3%263 in total

Replies5.4%334 in total

Quotes1.0%64 in total

Bookmarks9.5%584 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Good God that was quick! Let's keep this going until $2000, chaps. The Z stays on. https://t.co/LbYTD9swZc 4.8K views · 121 likes · 3 reposts · 9 replies 04 Sep 2026 How terribly kind of Bob to share. I have written "economy starts to break" in my diary for the years 2029 to 2033. 6.1K views · 56 likes · 0 reposts · 5 replies 04 Sep 2026 The new name stays until we hit $1,000, old chap! https://t.co/K5dOAfNILE 10.7K views · 132 likes · 3 reposts · 15 replies 03 Sep 2026 Zcash now over $900. Those of you in the old school who believe this is a bubble simply have not understood the new mathematics of the Blockchain, or you did not cared enough to try. Bubbles are mathematically impossible in this new paradigm. So are corrections and all else. 92.3K views · 1.1K likes · 104 reposts · 119 replies 03 Sep 2026 Reminds of London in the late 1980s. Elaborate derivatives were being sold to people who barely understood them and insider trading was rampant. Financial innovation has often been about making recklessness sound institutional. Bloody good fun though! 5K views · 48 likes · 2 reposts · 4 replies 02 Sep 2026 We’re entering a period of peak financial nihilism and degeneracy. Crypto is rapidly becoming the land of wolves, where anything goes. It’s become socially acceptable to rug, scam, or “PvE” people through new and novel scam financial instuments. 151.2K views · 1.7K likes · 97 reposts · 145 replies 01 Sep 2026 @RichardPtardio reuters dealing handles were a vibe too! im not from the 80ies or even london, but when i started on my first (and last) job as an FX MM Trader in a moscow branch, my head office contact was Bedfellow haha. i felt like i joined the Illuminati 4.9K views · 20 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 27 Aug 2026 @RichardPtardio Finance and law have become squarely middle class coded. Getting into each has become so cartoonishly difficult you need a burning chip on your shoulder striver attitude that has relegated most of the charming floppy haired toffs who used to dominate. Sad tbh 1.9K views · 18 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 27 Aug 2026 @RichardPtardio The ultimate skill issue: not having a dad who shoots grouse with the chairman. Classic! 1.9K views · 35 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 27 Aug 2026 It was very different in the 1980s. Every chap in London finance had a double-barrelled name, and half the City had gone to school with each other. One such chap was a fellow I'll identify here only as Hugo. Hugo possessed three qualities considered invaluable in 1980s 226.5K views · 1.7K likes · 54 reposts · 34 replies 27 Aug 2026