What was the first book you read on anything related to Wall Street ?

I don't remember the name of the book, but I remember I checked it out of the library in the 90s. It was a sort of autobiography of this woman who traded in the pits and rode a skateboard to work. I specifically remember her mentioning about how she lost $1.6 million of her employers money in the crash of '87(over 2 days) and it would take her 6 months to make that back. Then one year she was excited because she made something like $5 million for her employer and got a nice big bonus of I think $800k. I remember before that she seemed to barely be making it...renting floor space in someone kitchen for $500 per month rent and having to put rock salt around her so the cockroaches didn't climb on her while she slept.

Does this book sound familiar to anyone else? I'd love to read it again, but I don't live anywhere near the place where I originally checked out the book(if they even still had it some 20 years later)
 
peilthetraveler said:
I don't remember the name of the book, but I remember I checked it out of the library in the 90s. It was a sort of autobiography of this woman who traded in the pits and rode a skateboard to work. I specifically remember her mentioning about how she lost $1.6 million of her employers money in the crash of '87(over 2 days) and it would take her 6 months to make that back. Then one year she was excited because she made something like $5 million for her employer and got a nice big bonus of I think $800k. I remember before that she seemed to barely be making it...renting floor space in someone kitchen for $500 per month rent and having to put rock salt around her so the cockroaches didn't climb on her while she slept.

Does this book sound familiar to anyone else? I'd love to read it again, but I don't live anywhere near the place where I originally checked out the book(if they even still had it some 20 years later)
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I would love to read this..please post if the name comes back to you.
 

First book.

Then Richard Ney, Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand and eventually Richard Werner.

Don't take it like it's that easy, you need to study much more than the ones I've listed.
 
peilthetraveler said:
I don't remember the name of the book, but I remember I checked it out of the library in the 90s. It was a sort of autobiography of this woman who traded in the pits and rode a skateboard to work. I specifically remember her mentioning about how she lost $1.6 million of her employers money in the crash of '87(over 2 days) and it would take her 6 months to make that back. Then one year she was excited because she made something like $5 million for her employer and got a nice big bonus of I think $800k. I remember before that she seemed to barely be making it...renting floor space in someone kitchen for $500 per month rent and having to put rock salt around her so the cockroaches didn't climb on her while she slept.

Does this book sound familiar to anyone else? I'd love to read it again, but I don't live anywhere near the place where I originally checked out the book(if they even still had it some 20 years later)
More...

woman of the pits: shattering the glass ceilings in financial markets by mara koppel.october 1998
 
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