Quote from electron:
This series of books by Schwager, in my opinion, has contributed a lot to this myth of trading geniuses and a bit to the myth of easy money too.
Some of these geniuses are not geniuses any more and most of them can lose money as easily as many other less accomplished traders.
Quote from small_beer:
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