Bulls, Bears, and Millionaires: War Stories of the Trading Life
Author: Robert Koppel
List Price: $29.95
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ISBN: 0793123933
Publisher: Dearborn Trade Publishing (June, 1997)
Sales Rank: 144,670
Average Customer Rating: 3.38 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 2 out of 5
Yawn
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.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Captures what makes traders tick
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.
Rating: 1 out of 5
No war stories. Only trivial snapshots
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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