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āDarker than [Liarās Poker], but if anything even more of a rollicking read . . . the clearest account Iāve ever read of how trading desks really work.āāFelix Salmon, Axios
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If you were gonna rob a bank and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around?
Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken soccer balls on the run-down streets of East London, Gary Stevenson dreamed of something bigger. As luck would have it, he was good at numbers.
At the London School of Economics, wearing tracksuits and sneakers, Stevenson shocked his posh classmates by winning a competition called āThe Trading Game.ā The prize?: a golden ticket to a new life, as the youngest trader at Citibank. A place where you could make more money than youād ever imagined. Where your colleagues are dysfunctional geniuses and insecure bullies yet start to feel like family. Where against the odds you become the bankās most profitable trader, closing deals worth nearly a trillion dollars. A day.
Soon you are dreaming of numbers in your sleepāand then you stop sleeping at all. But what happens when winning starts to feel like losing? Youāre making a killing betting on millions of people becoming poorerālike the very people you grew up with. The economy is slipping off a precipice, and your own sanity starts slipping with it. You want to stop, but you canāt. Because nobody ever leaves.
Would you stick, or quit? Even if it meant risking everything?
The Trading Game is an outrageous, unvarnished, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating worldāthe trading floorāfrom someone who survived the game and then blew it all wide open.
This book title, The Trading Game (A Confession), ISBN: 9780593727218, by Gary Stevenson, published by Crown (March 5, 2024) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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