Market Wizards, Updated

MARKET WIZARDS The Investment Classic, Updated with a New Preface and Afterword "I've read the book at several stages of my career as it shows the staying power of good down-to-earth wisdoms of true practitioners with skin in the game. This is the central document showing the heuristics that real-life traders use to manage their affairs, how people who do rather than talk have done things. Twenty years from now, it will still be fresh. There is no other like it." ? Nassim N. Taleb, former derivatives trader, author of The Black Swan, and professor, NYU-Poly Praise for the First Edition "Market Wizards is one of the most fascinating books ever written about Wall Street. A few of the 'Wizards' are my friends? and Jack Schwager has nailed their modus operandi on the head." ? Martin W. Zweig, PhD, Editor, The Zweig Forecast "It is difficult enough to develop a method that works. It then takes experience to believe what your method is telling you. But the toughest task of all is turning analysis into money. If you don't believe it, try it. These guys have it all: a method, the conviction, and the discipline to act decisively time after time, regardless of distractions and pressures. They are heroes of Wall Street, and Jack Schwager's book brings their characters vividly to life." ? Robert R. Prechter Jr. , Editor, The Elliott Wave Theorist Featuring interviews with seventeen of the most successful market-beaters, including Bruce Kovner, Richard Dennis, Paul Tudor Jones, Michael Steinhardt, Ed Seykota, Marty Schwartz, and Tom Baldwin, Market Wizards is packed with real-life anecdotes from the trading world. From the electrical engineer from MIT whose computerized trading earned returns of 250, 000% over sixteen years to the trader who, after wiping out several times, successfully turned a $30, 000 investment into an $80 million fortune, Schwager identifies the factors that define a true Market Wizard.

Preface to the Paperback Edition ix
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Prologue xix
My Own Story xxi
Part I Futures and Currencies 1
Taking the Mystery Out of Futures 3
The Interbank Currency Market Defined 7
Michael Marcus: Blighting Never Strikes Twice 9
Bruce Kovner: The World Trader 51
Richard Dennis: A Legend Retires 83
Paul Tudor Jones: The Art of Aggressive Trading 115
Gary Bielfeldt: Yes, They Do Trade T-Bonds in Peoria 139
Ed Seykota: Everybody Gets What They Want 151
Larry Hite: Respecting Risk 175
Part II Mostly Stocks 193
Michael Steinhardt: The Concept of Variant Perception 195
William O'Neil: The Art of Stock Selection 221
David Ryan: Stock Investment as a Treasure Hunt 239
Marty Schwartz: Champion Trader 257
Part III A Little Bit of Everything 281
James B. Rogers, Jr. : Buying Value and Selling Hysteria 283
Mark Weinstein: High-Percentage Trader 321
Part IV The View from the Floor 343
Brian Gelber: Broker Turned Trader 345
Tom Baldwin: The Fearless Pit Trader 367
Tony Saliba: "One-Lot" Triumphs 385
Part V The Psychology of Trading 405
Dr. Van K. Tharp: The Psychology of Trading 407
The Trade: A Personal Experience 429
Postscript: Dreams and Trading 435
Final Word 439
What I Believe 22 Years Later 441
Appendix 1: Program Trading and Portfolio Insurance 453
Appendix 2: Options-Understanding the Basics 455
Glossary 461
Excerpt: Edward Thorp 473