Trading Chicago Style

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Summary: Absolutely worthless--has no application to real trading!!
Review: I couldn't stop laughing as I read this book. Unfortunately, I know the author and his reputaion as a huckster and this comes out plain and clear in this book. I am a floor trader and I have made money trading. I believe the author was at best a mini trader on the Mid-America exhange which is like playing pop warner football versus the big Chicago Exhanges--Merc and CBT. Even at the Mid-America I was told he could not make money. I guess the adage if you can't trade then teach or write best applies--in this instance even the writing and the concepts are vacant!! Don't be fooled by the hype--steer clear of this book. It's totally fiction.

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Summary: Negative contribution to industry
Review: I have jousted and admonnished the author for years regarding his poetic license to fabricate useless methods on trading beginning with the programmer's forum. He professed nothing but non-sense back then and he has not deviated from this fruitless journey. This book should NOT be read even if free. A total waste of time. It is an attmept to capitalize on a great book, Jack Schwager's Market Wizard's. An appropriate title for this book is "trading Loser's Style".

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Summary: Total waste of print and time
Review: It's amazing what this guy attempts to pass off as value. First of all he represents he is a trader of reknown. This is total rubbish. Being from Chicago myself I knwo that this guy is a total charlatan and he never made a dime trading. He was a part time trader on the 'baby' mid america exchange. It is equivalent to playing the penny slot machines. The interviews he conducts are made with traders who are of higher stature than the writer--I use that term lightly--but that is like calling a midget a giant since everything is relative. I would like to write that I axquired one morsel of information from this book but all I got was worthless words. I cannot recommend any less this book. Instead of even reading it, I recommend you pound your head against the wall since that would be more gratifying.

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Summary: The Real Mark Brown
Review: Neal Weintraub is a good friend of mine and I am mentioned in some of his books. I have always found him to be a honest and trustworthy promoter of the futures industry. I see others are writing very negative reviews about Neal's books using my name and location in the US. I am a very vocal critic of scams in the business and it is very unfortunate that Amazon does not better police their web site to assure potential book buyers of the real identity of who is making comments. www.markbrown.com Mark Brown

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Summary: A Solid Effort!
Review: This book is a series of discussions between author Neil T. Weintraub and some of the most successful people trading on the Chicago markets today. Like the trades, the information flies fast and furious, and one trader's ideas may completely contradict another's. But most seem to agree that the keys to successful trading are discipline, psychological stability and a solid understanding of risk management. You will succeed in the Chicago markets if you keep your cool and stick to your system, no matter what's happening. This chat-happy book offers many perspectives, ideas and experiences from extremely knowledgeable sources. The uninitiated reader might find it difficult to follow some of the more jargon-laden discussions and the initiated reader might find the chattiness to be disturbing or irrelevant. But regardless of which category you're in, we [...] recommend this book as a valuable introduction or a helpful trade manual.


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Summary: Great Trading Strategies
Review: This is a book that has turned my trading from losing to winning. It is not a book of systems or methods claiming to make you rich overnight. The traders in this book are real. It's up to the reader to follow up with the traders (e-mail addresses are provided). Market Wizards is fine, but did Jack give you their e-mail addresses?

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Summary: Nice insight from real traders
Review: Wow! this book has some bad reviews. I am really surprised, perhaps some of the reviewers really expected to be handed a real trading system for 29.95. The book jacket definitely over-promises based on what is inside, but there is still tremendous value in here. If you look past the blatant attempts by some of the interviewees to market their services and take the nuggets where you find them then you will have not wasted your time.

I know several of the traders interviewed in the book. They have reputations that span the spectrum. But the really outstanding interviews were of the traders that you don't find interviewed in other texts. The nameless Phantom, CV, the Committee and Mark Brown interviews come to mind. They are worth the price of the book. The pit stops are also useful, but in some cases are found in other texts