Trading for Survival: Inside the Mind of a Wall Street Trader

Trading is the most dangerous (legal) activity in the modern world - it can crush you both financially and psychologically. Even making money, though exhilarating, is never stress-free. Especially in the modern world - with fiat currency and central bank activity threatening the value of savings, and easy and continuous access to the markets through the internet - every financial decision we make is a trade. Everyone, in one form or another, is a trader.

I spent 7 years from 2006-2013 making markets and trading for a large institutional trading desk, and much of that studying market history and testing various approaches to trading. In this book I share what I learned during this time, and give readers guidelines for how to navigate the perilous waters of trading.

Specifically, I delve into the core types of market analysis - technical, sentiment, and fundamental. I look at market psychology and many important texts on trading and investing. I give real examples from my trading experience to clarify and expand upon the theories discussed. In the Glossary, well worth the price of admission, I give a colorful portrayal of the world of trading and life on the trading floor of a large institution.

In sum, I am confident that the ideas and tools I present here will equip people to survive and grow their capital in the market, and that the insight and entertainment value in Odds and Ends and the Glossary will be "dressing on the bird" - a full meal for your thought and application in the market.