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Un viaggio mozzafiato nel cuore oscuro di un mondo inebriante, raccontato da chi è sopravvissuto al gioco del trading e poi ne ha svelato i segreti. "Cosa faresti se volessi rapinare una banca e trovassi aperta la porta del caveau? Esiteresti?" Fin da quand'era bambino e tirava calci ai palloni rotti per le strade di East London, all'ombra dei grattacieli di Canary Wharf, Gary voleva qualcosa di meglio. Qualcosa di molto più grande. Poi vinse un concorso indetto da una banca: "The Trading Game". Il premio in palio: un biglietto d'oro per una nuova vita, per diventare il trader più giovane della City. Un luogo in cui puoi guadagnare una quantità inimmaginabile di soldi. Dove i colleghi sono geni della matematica disadattati, capricciosi figli di papà e gente al limite della psicopatia, eppure ti sembrano una famiglia. Dove ben presto diventi il trader più redditizio della banca, arrivando a maneggiare quasi mille miliardi di dollari. Al giorno. Dove si sognano i numeri anche di notte... e poi si smette anche di dormire. Ma che succede quando vincere inizia a sembrare una sconfitta? Quando il modo più semplice per fare soldi è scommettere sul fatto che milioni di persone diventeranno sempre più povere e, mentre l'economia inizia a rotolare giù da un precipizio, la tua stessa sanità mentale inizia a scivolare giù con lei? Vorresti fermarti, ma non puoi. Perché nessuno se ne va mai. Rimani o ti arrendi? Anche a costo di perdere tutto?
- ISBN: 8836017878
- Casa Editrice: Hoepli
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- Data di uscita: 09-05-2025
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Holy crap. This was not what I expected. A couple of takeaways: 1. I do NOT want to be a trader, for Citibank or for anywhere else. 2. The author is a little bit of an asshole, and if I met him I wouldn't know whether to shake his hand, give him a hug, or slap him across the face. 3. This is one of th Leggi tutto
It’s so refreshing to stumble upon a book that has great reviews about a topic you know nothing about. I’ve watched some series about stock exchanges, but my knowledge is very basic. This gave me an interesting insight to ‘the trading game’ while also being highly entertaining. No dry descriptions h Leggi tutto
The Trading Game is the type of book where while reading it, I wanted to talk to someone who’d read it but also wanted to throw it out of the window. Gary Stevenson is a recovering trader. After a working class upbringing in Ilford, East London, he secured a spot in LSE studying maths and economics Leggi tutto
Initially I enjoyed it, for the first few chapters at least. It was coherent and well explained. I’m not sure if it was a narrative decision to have it become less and less coherent as it went, as if to mirror the author’s own mental breakdown, but I didn’t feel it worked and left a lot of threads u Leggi tutto
A fascinating memoir with thriller vibes that provides a great insight into the work of investment banking and currency trading. Stevenson's honesty in documenting his own failings and his colourful descriptions of his colleagues make for a book which is both moving and funny. What really makes it s Leggi tutto
An interesting book that begins by reassuring us that traders and brokers are the arrogant, greedy and selfish individuals that many of us probably expected they were. Through their privileged position they earn eye watering large sums of money by placing simple, relatively low risk bets. What surpr Leggi tutto
The Trading Game by Gary Stevenson Nearly 40 years ago I attempted to become a dealer at the London International Financial Futures Exchange at the Bank. I was an account manager for BT and we provided the dealer boards for all the banks in the City. I had been seconded to the LIFFE as it was known t Leggi tutto
I cannot even begin to fully put into words what this book has done to me. It’s a bit vile in many, many ways. It’s exactly as repulsive as I expected it to be and there are definitely quite a few people that deserve to be cursed with small inconveniences for the rest of their lives. But it was also Leggi tutto
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