I am the author of a dozen books about trading, including the iconic Market Wizards series in which I interviewed many of the world’s best traders during the past thirty-plus years. My books have been translated into over 20 languages and cumulatively have sold millions of copies worldwide. My career also includes over 20 years as a research director for some of Wall Street’s leading firms, 10 years as a partner in a hedge fund advisory firm, and most recently the co-founder of a fintech startup (fundseeder.com).
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Unknown Market Wizards: The Best Traders You've Never Heard Of
Unknown Market Wizards continues in the three-decade tradition of the hugely popular Market Wizards series, interviewing exceptionally successful traders to…
Lewis is a phenomenal writer. Anything he has written can be assumed to be a great read. Liar’s Poker is Lewis’s account of his experiences as a trainee and bond salesman at Solomon Brothers in the 1980s—A very entertaining and humor-filled narrative.
Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street's premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liar's Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years-a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game…
Lewis’s account of the traders who got it right in 2008 is a magnificent achievement in that he somehow manages to take highly complex and esoteric material and make it both comprehensible to the lay reader and wildly entertaining. To give credit where due, I found one of my interview subjects for Hedge Fund Market Wizards (Jamie Mai) by reading this book.
The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can't pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren't talking.
Michael Lewis creates a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his #1 bestseller Liar's Poker. Out of a…
The true story behind the rise and fall of Long Term Capital Management. Most people think it was simply about excess leverage. When you read Lowenstein’s account, you will see that there was a lot more to it than that. As a financial author, I admire authors who can take esoteric financial subject material and transform it into a comprehensible and entertaining narrative. In this respect, this book is similar to Michel Lewis’s The Big Short.
Picking up where Liar's Poker left off (literally, in the bond dealer's desks of Salomon Brothers) the story of Long-Term Capital Management is of a group of elite investors who believed they could beat the market and, like alchemists, create limitless wealth for themselves and their partners.
Founded by John Meriweather, a notoriously confident bond dealer, along with two Nobel prize winners and a floor of Wall Street's brightest and best, Long-Term Captial Management was from the beginning hailed as a new gold standard in investing. It was to be the hedge fund to end all other hedge funds: a…
Personally, I am not crazy about the title, but this book is an excellent account of the history of hedge funds. The book is thoroughly researched, very well written, and accurate based on my experience in writing about the same subject matter.
The first book of its kind: a fascinating and entertaining examination of hedge funds today
Shortlisted for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
'An enormously satisfying book: a gripping chronicle of the cutting edge of the financial markets and a fascinating perspective on what was going on in these shadowy institutions as the crash hit' Observer
Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge-find managers have emerged as the stars of twenty-first century capitalism. Based on unprecedented access to the industry, More Money Than God provides the first authoritative history of hedge funds. This is the inside story…
A book I liked enough to agree to write the foreword. To quote from my own foreword, “There is more to be learned from Jim Paul’s true story of failure than from a stack of books promising to reveal the secret formula for success. Not only that, What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars is a much more entertaining read.”
Jim Paul's meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all-his fortune, his reputation, and his job-in one fatal attack of excessive economic hubris. In this honest, frank analysis, Paul and Brendan Moynihan revisit the events that led to Paul's disastrous decision and examine the psychological factors behind bad financial practices in several economic sectors. This book-winner of a 2014 Axiom Business Book award gold medal-begins with the unbroken string of successes that helped Paul achieve a jet-setting lifestyle and land a key spot with the…
Unknown Market Wizards continues in the three-decade tradition of the hugely popular Market Wizards series, interviewing exceptionally successful traders to learn how they achieved their extraordinary performance results. The twist in Unknown Market Wizards is that the featured traders are individuals trading their own accounts. They are unknown to the investment world. Despite their anonymity, these traders have achieved performance records that rival, if not surpass, the best professional managers.
Tap Dancing on Everest, part coming-of-age memoir, part true-survival adventure story, is about a young medical student, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor raised in N.Y.C., who battles self-doubt to serve as the doctor—and only woman—on a remote Everest climb in Tibet.
The team attempts a new route up the East Face without the use of supplemental oxygen, Sherpa support, or chance for rescue. When three climbers disappear during their summit attempt, Zieman reaches the knife edge of her limits and digs deeply to fight for the climbers’ lives and to find her voice.
The plan was outrageous: A small team of four climbers would attempt a new route on the East Face of Mt. Everest, considered the most remote and dangerous side of the mountain, which had only been successfully climbed once before. Unlike the first large team, Mimi Zieman and her team would climb without using supplemental oxygen or porter support. While the unpredictable weather and high altitude of 29,035 feet make climbing Everest perilous in any condition, attempting a new route, with no idea of what obstacles lay ahead, was especially audacious. Team members were expected to push themselves to their…
