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The Little Book of Market Wizards : Lessons from the Greatest Traders

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An accessible look at the art of investing and how to adopt the practices of top professionals What differentiates the highly successful market practitioners the Market Wizards from ordinary traders? What traits do they share? What lessons can the average trader learn from those who achieved superior returns for decades while still maintaining strict risk control? Jack Schwager has spent the past 25 years interviewing the market legends in search of the answers a quest chronicled in four prior Market Wizards volumes totaling nearly 2,000 pages. In The Little Book of Market Wizards, Jack Schwager seeks to distill what he considers the essential lessons he learned in conducting nearly four dozen interviews with some of the world's best traders. The book delves into the mindset and processes of highly successful traders, providing insights that all traders should find helpful in improving their trading skills and results.
* Each chapter focuses on a specific theme essential to market success * Describes how all market participants can benefit by incorporating the related traits, behaviors, and philosophies of the Market Wizards in their own trading * Filled with compelling anecdotes that bring the trading messages to life, and direct quotes from the market greats that resonate with the wisdom born of experience and skill Stepping clearly outside the narrow confines of most investment books, The Little Book of Market Wizards focuses on the value of understanding one's self within the context of successful investing.
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Product details

  • Hardback | 208 pages
  • 129 x 182 x 22mm | 258g
  • New York, United States
  • English
  • 1. Auflage
  • 1118858697
  • 9781118858691
  • 11,039

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What differentiates the highly successful market practitioners--the Market Wizards--from ordinary traders? What traits do they share? What lessons can the average trader learn from those who achieved superior returns for decades while still maintaining strict risk control? Jack Schwager has spent the past 25 years interviewing the market legends in search of the answers--a quest chronicled in four prior Market Wizards volumes totaling nearly 2,000 pages.

In The Little Book of Market Wizards, Jack Schwager seeks to distill what he considers the essential lessons he learned in conducting nearly four dozen interviews with some of the world's best traders. The book delves into the mindset and processes of highly successful traders, providing insights that all traders should find helpful in improving their trading skills and results. Each chapter focuses on a specific theme essential to market success and describes how all market participants can benefit by incorporating the related traits, behaviors, and philosophies of the Market Wizards in their own trading. The book is filled with compelling anecdotes that bring the trading messages to life, and direct quotes from the market greats that resonate with the wisdom born of experience and skill.

Stepping clearly outside the narrow confines of most investment books, The Little Book of Market Wizards focuses on the value of understanding one's self within the context of successful investing. For an in-depth view of the art of investing and how to adopt the practices of top professionals, Schwager's Little Book is one of the best, most entertaining guides out there.
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Table of contents

Foreword by Peter L. Brandt xi Preface xv Chapter One: Failure Is Not Predictive 1 Chapter Two: What Is Not Important 9 Chapter Three: Trading Your Own Personality 15 Chapter Four: The Need for an Edge 23 Chapter Five: The Importance of Hard Work 27 Chapter Six: Good Trading Should Be Effortless 35 Chapter Seven: The Worst of Times, the Best of Times 41 Chapter Eight: Risk Management 47 Chapter Nine: Discipline 61 Chapter Ten: Independence 69 Chapter Eleven: Confidence 73 Chapter Twelve: Losing Is Part of the Game 77 Chapter Thirteen: Patience 83 Chapter Fourteen: No Loyalty 93 Chapter Fifteen: Size Matters 103 Chapter Sixteen: Doing the Uncomfortable Thing 115 Chapter Seventeen: Emotions and Trading 125 Chapter Eighteen: Dynamic versus Static Trading 135 Chapter Nineteen: Market Response 145 Chapter Twenty: The Value of Mistakes 157 Chapter Twenty-One: Implementation versus Idea 163 Chapter Twenty-Two: Off the Hook 167 Chapter Twenty-Three: Love of the Endeavor 173 Appendix: Options Understanding the Basics 177 Notes 185 About the Author 189
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About Jack D. Schwager

JACK D. SCHWAGER is a recognized industry expert in futures and hedge funds and the author of a number of widely acclaimed financial books. He is currently a principal of PortfolioFit (portfoliofitadvisors.com), an advisory firm that specializes in constructing tailor-made futures and FX managed account portfolios for clients, and the co-portfolio manager for the ADM Investor Services Diversified Strategies Fund, a portfolio of futures and FX managed accounts. Mr. Schwager is also one of the founders of Fund Seeder (Fundseeder.com), a platform designed to find undiscovered trading talent worldwide and connect unknown successful traders with sources of investment capital. Mr. Schwager is the inventor of the Jack Schwager Commodity Index (JSCI) family, a set of dynamically adjusted commodity indexes that incorporate spread structure, systematic inputs, and volatility-based risk adjustments. The indexes are scheduled to be launched in early 2014 in cooperation with Aquantum AG and UBS. Mr. Schwager is perhaps best known for his best-selling series of interviews with the greatest hedge fund managers of the last three decades: Market Wizards (1989), The New Market Wizards (1992), Stock Market Wizards (2001), and Hedge Fund Market Wizards (2012). His latest book Market Sense and Nonsense, a compendium of investment misconceptions, was published in November 2012. He is also the author of the three-volume Schwager on Futures series and Getting Started in Technical Analysis. Mr. Schwager is a frequent seminar speaker and has lectured on a range of analytical topics including the characteristics of great traders, investment fallacies, hedge fund portfolios, managed accounts, technical analysis, and trading system evaluation.
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