Article: Low-stress securities dealer puts his own money in play. (Lee West)(L.A.'s Moneymakers)

LEE West's fifth-floor office at Santa Monica-based Drake Capital Securities Inc. defies the usual stereotypes of a stockbroker's office.

There are no guys in rumpled shirts on two phones at once, yelling "Buy!" into one and "Sell!" into the other. There also are no dog-eared financial reports, back issues of the Wall Street Journal or decaying containers of take-out Chinese food.

There's just West's desk, with its four precise stacks of files on the top, a credenza to one side with a computer, a television tuned to CNBC with the sound turned down, and four books propped up against the window including "The Warren Buffet Way," by Robert Hagstrom.

West ...

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