The New Market Wizards
Conversations with America's Top Traders
- Forfatter: Jack D. Schwager
- Format: Innbundet
- Antall sider: 608
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Wiley Trading
- EAN: 9781592803378
- Utgivelsesår: 2008
- Bidragsyter: Schwager, Jack D.
Taps into the minds of today¿s trading superstars to reveal the secrets of their astonishing success
In these absorbing interviews with star performers in the financial markets, Schwager humanizes the mechanics and psychology behind the trading world in such sophisticated instruments as currencies, stock options, commodity futures, and mutual-fund accounts by individuals, investment firms and group-trading computerized "money machines." One trader focuses on market response to news events, another calculates mathematical probabilities--one even cocks an ear to the noise level on the exchange floor. All rank assiduous research, self-confidence, a specific plan and the courage to cut losses among essentials to success. Few consider their work gambling, but Schwager entertainingly argues that a successful trader needs many of the qualities of a good poker player. Though the subject matter is esoteric, there is much here to attract the general reader, and Schwager appends a