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Summary: market wizards :interviews with top traders
Review: this book is a bible for the person who ever wants to be a trader.every interview with top traders gives insight thought procees of a trader for decission taking to do or conclude the trade. i personally have developed trading skills from the book. must read .
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Summary: all killer, no filler
Review: If I could only have one book on trading, it would be "Reminisces of a Stock Operator" by Edwin Lefevre. If I could have two, "Market Wizards" would be my second choice. A lot of books on trading are written by guys who couldn't trade their way out of a paper bag. Not this one. Track records are posted, and the traders interviewed in this book have collectively taken hundreds of millions out of the markets. Schwager, while not a great trader himself (and humble enough to admit it), knows enough about the markets to ask all the right questions. A must read for traders (especially futures traders).
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Summary: The Trader's Bible - Lessons from the Masters
Review: Market Wizards is one of those few books that you just buy. No questions, just buy. No where else can you find such concrete lessons from the best traders of our time. The interview with Richard Dennis alone is worth the admission. This man lays it out straight that anyone can learn to trade. In fact, he proves it with a trading experiment he conducted with complete novices. Market Wizards goes beyond the sound bites so popular on TV. If you want to understand the pyschological underpinnings of trading success, the author Jack Schwager has compiled a worthy read.
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Summary: A must read for any investor
Review: Market Wizards is a must read for anybody who wants to understand the temperament and psychology of successful traders. The focus is speculative trading but very helpful for people who want to understand various investment vehicles.
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Summary: The best trading book that doesn't tell you trading tips.
Review: You read this book not to learn technical patterns or techniques that work. Actually, many of the traders interviewed have opposing views on some techniques. Some say one method won't work and another trader in the book uses that method and is making a killing. No, you read this book to realize several things about yourself. If you want to make a success, you will have to work at it and stay committed. There is no way around it. Sometimes things will be difficult. Learn from your mistakes and learn that your biggest enemies are emotions and, in some cases, lack of knowledge. One common trait I see in this book is that the traders make it perfectly clear they have self-discipline. Some techniques are common between the traders, and they involve controlling their emotions after bad streaks or winning streaks.
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Summary: A book you should read
Review: I started to learn trading from reminiscence of a stock operator, then this book and its sequential book, It is a "must read" book, I refer to this book frequently. You can BENEFIT from it since it comtains various trading styles and personalities. What I really envy is that some lucky traders can work with those top ones, I have to study by myself, it is painful, and much less efficient.
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Summary: Fun Yet Intriguing Reading
Review: I really enjoyed reading "Market Wizards". I think Jack Schwager poses most of the right questions. I will try to list a few of the subtle points which I find most educational and amusing; hopefully, without including all the cliche trading aphorisms out there in trading land: 1. It is very interesting to note that the vast majority of traders mentioned utilize discretionary techniques, hence they are not systems traders 2. Both Bruce Kovner and Michael Marcus more or less state that market selection can be just as important as technique 3. Commodities Corporation appears to be some kind of freaky breeding ground for brilliant traders! The "New Market Wizards" also provides food for thought: 1. Most institutional "traders" are not really traders, they are market makers; profiting from the "vig". 2. Ed Seykota of "Market Wizards" fame opines that trend following systems and other systems, despite their widespread use, will never cease to work altogether. William Eckhardt on the other hand, seems to vehemently believe that cybernetic trading technologies will eventually find and exploit all profitable nonlinear price to price relationships; thereby rendering technical analysis obsolete. If Jack Schwager ever decides to 3peat, I hope that he includes more technically oriented material; old systems, exotic money management ideas and so forth. Ok, I've said enough. Forgive my grammar though do get this book!
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Summary: Bible for all traders
Review: This book is so good and helpful for new AND experienced trader that we can freely call it 'Trader's Bible'. I read book twice and refer to different parts very often. I think it is must for every trader to read advices from the book every time when he feels only 'human' (greed and lack of discipline, lethal in trading business). This procedure will put him on real track again. Highly recommended!
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Summary: The best headstart for real traders
Review: This work is a masterpiece.It describes exceptionaly well the complexity of the art of trading. To be good at trading you need to adopt a stragegy that suits you personally.Then,you have to master it. Only then,you have a shot at dealing with "fear and greed"that are every trader's enemy. This books gives you some idea about how real great traders operate.In some cases( the wizards David Ryan,William O'Neil)you could get a clear idea about their specific strategy.Then you could go ahead and learn more and only then join the trading force. This book helped me tremendously. It makes you humble,yet hopeful as well.I wish I read it earlier
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Summary: Amazing
Review: One of the best book i have ever read. Super stuff
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