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Confessions of a Street Addict

Confessions of a Street Addict

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Life on the supersonic treadmill
Review: This is a fascinating and yet appalling look at the life of a well-known hedge fund manager, a life in which, no matter how well you've done in the past, you're still only as good as your last trade.

It wasn't clear to me to what extent the pressure Jim Cramer worked under was a necessary part of the job or was due to his unrelenting need to win, every day, every hour. In any case, it was amazing to me that anyone could live like that for fifteen years without dropping dead.

A very intense read.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The Fund Guy was not a Fun Guy But He is Now.
Review: I really appreciated Cramer's book and the guts it took to tell his story. The events described are both on a career and personal level and are heartbreaking. I'm glad he made it through and shared his experiences with the rest of us. He's also a fine writer too.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Summer Reading
Review: This was a funny, fast reading book. It is not a how-to guide to investing (the bookracks are much too full of the how-to guides anyways), but gives a good background on how the fast moving money management game goes. With all the "revelations" now surfacing about how the Wall Street world really works, this is a good insiders view, and Cramer makes the stories come alive in a funny and informative way. This is a funny look at Wall Street from someone who has seen and lived through it successfully.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great background for those in the biz...
Review: If you are a professional on Wall St., and have been for the past several years, you can't help but know who Jim Cramer is - and probably think you know what he's about. If you have also gained value from his writing at TheStreet.com - you have also peripherally experienced some of his life. Or so you thought...
Here is the down and dirty, background account of what can go right and what can go (to steal Jim's tag) Wrong! on Wall St., at home and in the big money business. Being both in the business and a longtime TSCM subscriber - this book had me riveted. Jim writes in a way that brings the memories back in living color. You will - to once again steal the favored vernacular of Mr. Cramer - be overwhelmed by the acrid smoke of battle wafting across the field as Dietrich's Panzers advance into the Ardennes.
I am usually a history or fictional mystery/espionage reader, but this one grabbed me. (I don't regularly enjoy stories about what I do at work all day.) Well-written - good story - can't wait for the sequel! (I'll have to stay tuned at RealMoney.com!)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: JJC The Man
Review: It is so rare that you read of a successful man who indicates that life was not always a bowl of cherries. Cramer not only takes you thru the good years but the bad ones also. In addition to the character study the action of Wall Street and the hedgies makes for fascinating reading. In reality the last sentance of the book as they say covers the waterfront. Could not put it down on vacation. A must read for any Wall Street junkie.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A great education
Review: This is a great book and an eye opener into the real world of trading. Recommended.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Tribute to the Trading Goddess (Ms. Karen Cramer)
Review: I just read "confessions of street addict"....I must say how astonished I was to hear what the trading goddess (karen Cramer) did ... it was truly inspiring to see a woman with so much confidence and guts to just walk back in 4 years removed from the action with the livelihood of the firm on the line and exude so much confidence and optimism and basically ride in like the Calvary and make the movie a happy ending.....she's one incredible woman!!!!

One thing I missed in the book - its too bad it didn't include black and white pics of all the players and locations and such ...it would have been so revealing to see the people behind all the stories.....that ravi guy what a lunatic and all the bums hired to run street ....I thought cramer's childhood story about interest in stocks at 4 years of age was ironic.... There are many stories about how the "insiders" and the big boyz operate the market and many good trading/risk management philosophies revealed....the chapter about the 1998 "get out now" chapter is worth the price of the entire book...riveting stuff.

but the book was a tribute to Karen Cramer more than anything and I thought Cramer did a wonderful job telling the story.....always with the trading goddess as the counselyeri......seeing both Cramer and Berko look up to her was unique and refreshing.....an inspiring story about respect for family over money...its worth emulating....an awesome book -

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Nothing hidden
Review: No question about it, Jim Cramer tells all. He is not afraid to talk about his humble beginnings, or how he parlayed a friendship and an intense desire to succeed into a multi million dollar legacy.

In the crazy hedge fund world, where every eighth counts, Jim explains how he put together an amazing track record and then nearly blew everything in 1998 in the heat of the battle. He makes you feel as if you're in the trenches duking it out with him, tick by tick. And, you want to be there with him, as he talks about the fantastic bonuses his employees received in good years!

More important that duking it out, however, is the eventual conclusion he reached. First, that there is no old timers league for hedge fund managers, and that friends and family are far more important than how much you can make on your next trade.

An absolute must read.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I loved it
Review: This book is a page turner. I would have read it in one sitting had that been possible. What a fascinating life you lead, Jim! I don't know how you handle the stress. Your wife deserves a lot of credit which you certainly give her in this book. Well done!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Interesting But Scary and Egomaniacal
Review: I have to agree with the people who are less than impressed with CONFESSIONS -- Cramer definitely comes off as egomaniacal and crazed. One often wonders about how Karen Backfisch dealt with his absences from family events. I guess she took it like a good trader would and dismissed these absences as part of the job. There's no question Cramer is a brilliant guy when it comes to money, but I admire him for his forthright admittances of personal shortcomings. He is to be respected for "confessing" to having breaking untold numbers of computers and keyboards in a maddening, perfectionist fury, and to missing untold numbers of his childrens' soccer games and plays. He is "spot-on" (I hesitate to use the street's lingo) when he says that his success is due solely to his "hunger" and his haunting memory of sleeping in a car for nine months when he was at the bottom rung of his finances.
He says that what makes a good hedge fund manager is the never-ending fear and the constant scramble to be the best -- or lose big. But in the end, I wonder, given the smart-ass tone in which this book is served to the reader, would he do it all over again? Would he conduct business by his mother's bedside up till the day of her passing away? Would he have missed his sister's wedding for a crack at a position at Goldman? Would he have balked at visiting his daughter when she was rushed to the hospital for a bacterial infection? Would he have made all of these mistakes over again just for his current net worth? If it were, as he says, all-or-nothing? If he is right, that the only way to be a good money manager is to live and breathe it to the exclusion of everything else? I suspect the answer is Yes.


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