Pamela
Chu: Taking It in Stride
As a 31-year-old vice president and United States
equities trader at Cantor Fitzgerald, Pamela Chu was
under constant pressure. "I never saw her stressed out,"
said her close friend Christiana Yu, "but she told me
about customers barking, `This is what I want. Don't sell
too low. Don't buy too high.' And there was a lot of
trading going at one time. And she was the only female
trader and only Asian in her department, and that was
difficult, but she seemed so relaxed."
Ms. Chu was born in Korea, and with her parents she
moved to the United States when she was 2. After
graduating from the University of Buffalo, she started
working for Cantor Fitzgerald as a temporary clerk. In
recent years, she counted among her clients Ms. Yu and
her husband, Edwin Chan, and often joined them for dinner
and weekend trips.
Last May, Ms. Chu moved from her parents' home in
Queens to a recently renovated rental apartment five
minutes from her office. By doing that, she said, she
could get to work by 6:30 a.m.
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