Product Description

A bestselling classic (more than 200,000 copies sold in hardcover and paperback) that delves into the minds of some of the world's most successful traders.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12761 in Books
• Published on: 1993-01-27
• Released on: 1992-12-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

Review
"One of the most fascinating books ever written about Wall Street." -- --Martin W. Zweig, Market Forecaster

About the Author

Jack Schwager is a managing director and principal of The Fortune Group, an alternative asset management firm regulated in the UK and the United States. Schwager is the Senior Portfolio manager for Fortune's Market Wizards Funds of Funds, a broadly diversified series of institutional hedge fund portfolios. He also serves on the board of Fortune's research affiliate Global Fund Analysis, a leading source of independent hedge fund research. His prior experience includes 22 years as the director of futures research for some of Wall Street's leading firms and 10 years as the co-principal of a commodity trading advisory firm.

Mr. Schwager is perhaps best known as the author of the best-selling Market Wizards (1989), and the equally popular The New Market Wizards (1992). A third volume in this series, Stock Market Wizards, published by HarperCollins, was released in early 2001. Mr. Schwager's first book, A Complete Guide to the Futures Markets, which was published in 1984, is considered to be one of the classic reference works in the field. More than a decade later he revised and expanded this original work into the three-volume series, Schwager on Futures, consisting of the following titles: Fundamental Analysis (1995), Technical Analysis (1996), and Managed Trading: Myths and Truths (1996). He is also the author of Getting Started in Technical Analysis (1999), which is part of John Wiley's popular "Getting Started" series.

Mr. Schwager is a frequent seminar speaker and has lectured on a range of analytical topics with particular focus on the characteristics of great traders, hedge fund investment, performance measurement, technical analysis, and trading system evaluation. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Brooklyn College and an M.A. in Economics from Brown University.

Customer Reviews

Very Useful
It has been very useful and important reading this book. I think every trader or the one who wants to be it should read this series of interviews. I thought I was the only one who felt and experimented all the pain, doubt and all kind of experiences when trading but I see that even the great traders have felt the same in some moment. I see that is part of the process of learning although you never stop learning. A lot of tips and ways of trading are shown in this book that will be of great help for those who read the book. I strongly recommend it.

Excellent read
Worth the time to learn how expert traders analyze the market. One of many in my collection.

Inspiration for daytraders
I generally only read textbooks about trading. Statistics, technical analysis, calculus etc. However, this very entertaining collection of interviews may be my favorite and most informative read. The stories give re-assurance that an individual can succeed through their own studies, analysis and effort. If you read carefully between the lines, you can figure out how the best in the business are operating and how they are formulating their strategies.