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Summary: Yawn
Review: A Market Wizards style of book interviewing various floor traders, fund managers and commodities traders. Maybe I'm not that informed, but the only one of the people were interviewed was Toby Crabel. Koppel asks the exact same question to every single person with a whole array of varying answers. To sum it up, nearly everyone had early success, blown out their account, and then recovered. The revolving theme seems to be that traders need to be competitive, disciplined and have almost an obsessive drive to find a way to make it. I did find the reading to be a little more interesting near the end with some more insightful interviews. Overall, there is too much chatting and very much talk about trading. Therefore, a reader would not expect to find anything all that useful to apply to his own methods. Great sleeping aid.
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Summary: No war stories. Only trivial snapshots
Review: Dont know whether Koppel had set the wrong questions or not, or he simply tried to gain quantity over quality (19 respondents in 190 pages), the answers from those 19 respondents, and thus the book itself, had been very boring and superficial. It's not that the 2 books of Market Wizards had set so high a standard for these interview type of trading books, but this one is just so poorly written. I had not read Koppel's other books but this one had scared me away.
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Summary: ''insightful, honest, entertaining- '' Bill Brodsky quote
Review: Its an insightful & fun read; underlined & pondered treasures like Solomon Cohen's quote''I think diagramatically''
Thomas Shanks of Hawgksbill Capital and a former turtle had more than a few things ,which the more one ponders the better,
''Impulsiveness, it can be a ver dangerous proclivity;
because the market is so deceptive''
They titled that book chapter-''learn to learn'';
titled Solomon Cohen chapter ''Solomons mind''
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Summary: Great stories and insights
Review: Koppel presents 20 traders and asks them thought provoking questions about what they learned about their profession and themselves. Any comparison between this book and the Market Wizards misses the point.Here the authors main interest is not specific trading strategies but rather the emotional and psychological aspects of being a first string performer.Also, many interesting philosophical insights that would serve one well in tading or in life.I felt the conversational tone to be very effective.
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Summary: Captures what makes traders tick
Review: There are no sure-fire trading success strategies here, but the author does capture what it takes to be a professional trader. I found it interesting how he accomplishes this by having them "chat" about issues in their lives and areas of their interest that on the face of it seem to have little to do but in reality everything to do with trading. A definite keeper.
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Summary: Yawn
Review: There are no sure-fire trading success strategies here, but the author does capture what it takes to be a professional trader. I found it interesting how he accomplishes this by having them "chat" about issues in their lives and areas of their interest that on the face of it seem to have little to do but in reality everything to do with trading. A definite keeper.
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