THE MARKET WIZARD THREAD

Trading the World's Markets by Leo Gough

It has interviews with
Jim Rogers
Paul Melton
Peter Everington
Mark Mobius
Alfred Steinherr
Dean LeBaron
Marc Faber
Robert Prechter

I liked it but did not read as many times as the Market Wizards books.

Regards:
Asterix
 
Quote from candletrader:

I was wondering if any of you know of any additional books which feature interviews with traders... the reason I seek interview books is because I have gained more from these kinds of books than by any book on technical analysis etc (if trading were simply a few technicals plus some risk management, all traders would be rich... trading is more than that... it's is a mindset)...

Currently, in the "Interviews" section of my library, I only have:
Market Wizards
New Market Wizards
Stock Market Wizards
The Guts & Glory of DayTrading
Real People; Real Traders
Electronic Trading Masters
Electronic Day Traders' Secrets

Please look through your stuff, and if you find interview books, please list them... if they are out of print, I am happy to buy them from you for a good price...


Candletrader,

These is a book called Masters of the Market which is a book on Australian traders and fund managers. Most of the interviews are related to intitutional types, but there is one interview with an option trader who made about 30 million prior the NASDAQ boom then lost most of it trying to short tech stocks through 2000. It's a great interview.

Well worth reading if you can get your hands on it.

Runningbear
 
Quote from candletrader:

I was wondering if any of you know of any additional books which feature interviews with traders... the reason I seek interview books is because I have gained more from these kinds of books than by any book on technical analysis etc (if trading were simply a few technicals plus some risk management, all traders would be rich... trading is more than that... it's is a mindset)...

Currently, in the "Interviews" section of my library, I only have:
Market Wizards
New Market Wizards
Stock Market Wizards
The Guts & Glory of DayTrading
Real People; Real Traders
Electronic Trading Masters
Electronic Day Traders' Secrets

Please look through your stuff, and if you find interview books, please list them... if they are out of print, I am happy to buy them from you for a good price...

Drobny, Steven (2006). Inside the House of Money. Wiley. ISBN 0-471-79447-3.
 
boris schlossberg: millionaire traders.

came out last year, he posts on ET (and his thread was a helpful thread, not a self-promoting one) periodically...

i consider the book better than market wizards for individual traders, because the traders (though most of them are unknown to the average person) aren't superstars, but people who make money on a regular basis without (generally) OPM. they use a variety of different methods, and boris summarizes each chapter with the lessons of each trader.

great read.
 
I have noticed that the richest guys from Market Wizards and new and made their money mostly in Forex and futures..
and not in stocks..!?

Bruce, Paul tudor, Druckenmiller,..


But many of them have not achieved great return the last years, for example Bruce, who's fund have not gone more than 3-4% lately..


I liked Paul tudor jones, his has really done it well since the interview.
 
Do you ever get the feeling that some of the gurus of trading are holding the vital bits back ? Or is it really that they are pretending to know a lot more than they are telling. Perhaps saving a bit up for the next book while putting in just enough to sell the present book. We obviously don’t know everything they know but is the bit we don’t know what they know, worth knowing ? Now that is the question.
Could it be that they are having a good laugh at the rest of us going round in circles trying to do something that is possibly impossible i.e. telling the future and getting paid as well ?
Anyone got Donald Rumsfelt’s address ? Coming to think of it he really didn’t seem to know much about anything let alone what he should have known about and was highly paid to know about.
 
TraderVic Sperandio was awesome with his 1-900 number. He was wrong alot but those calls were awesome, sounded like he was drunk and flipping a coin half the time. Someone who deserves to be on that list is TraderRich Schlegel. Of all the advisors/gurus I've known, he's the best.

Rennick out:cool:
 
Quote from candletrader:

I am pretty confident that most of you have read Schwager's two seminal and classic works on trader interviews, Market Wizards and New Market Wizards...

Please discuss which, if any, of the following characters have had a profound effect on your trading and/or motivation...

Market Wizards:

1) Michael Marcus
2) Bruce Kovner
3) Richard Dennis
4) Paul Tudor Jones
5) Gary Bielfeldt
6) Ed Seykota
7) Larry Hite
8) Michael Steinhardt
9) William O'Neil
10) David Ryan
11) Marty Schwartz
12) James B Rogers
13) Mark Weinstein
14) Brian Gelber
15) Tom Baldwin
16) Tony Saliba
17) Dr Van K Tharp

New Market Wizards:

18) Bill Lipschutz
19) Randy McKay
20) William Eckhardt
21) Monroe Trout
22) Al Weiss
23) Stanley Druckenmiller
24) Gil Blake
25) Victor Sperando
26) Tom Basso
27) Linda Bradford Raschke
28) Mark Ritchie
29) Blair Hull
30) Jeff Yass
31) Charles Faulkner
32) Robert Krausz
33) wee man

Yep, thats me all right...
 
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