What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
Book description
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…
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It is a shame the author of this book died in the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attack because I always wanted to hear more from him. As with most of the books on this list, for me the details of what he did (did he enter with moving averages? How did he apply stochastics to his entry signals? Etc.) are not nearly as important as his mental state of mind. What did he feel like losing $1 million? How did he recover mentally? For me, being a good trader involves dealing with losses, and this book does a superb…
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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.”
From Jack's list on traders.
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