Shortly after most novice traders discover how trading works and begin to realize that they
have the potential to make unlimited amounts of money in the financial markets they start
dreaming the near-impossible dream. They fantasize about buying that condo in Boca Raton for
their parents or surprising their son with a brand-new car on his 16th birthday. They even
begin to imagine themselves opening their own trading firm or milling about the pit of the
Chicago Mercantile Exchange lobbying against other professional traders for the perfect entry
into a once-in-a-lifetime trade. But then ... they watch the markets lurch in wildly
unpredictable ways lose their shirts in a few live trades and then freeze in their tracks
wondering if they will ever be able to consistently trade in a manner that can even loosely be
defined as 'profitable.' To be sure becoming a full-time professional trader working at a
proprietary trading firm or managing the trading activity of a hedge fund may sound like the
perfect career but it's all too easy for beginner traders to overestimate their trading
abilities underestimate the movements of the markets and find themselves in a financial hole
of epic proportions after a few bad trades. So what does it really take to make a living in the
markets? Tim Bourquin co-founder of Traders Expo and the Forex Trading Expo and founder of
TraderInterviews.com and freelance writer and editor Nick Mango set out to answer that exact
question in Traders at Work a unique collection of over 20 interviews with some of the world's
most successful professional traders from at-home hobbyists who have opened their own firms to
those working at hedge funds on proprietary trading desks and in exchange pits. What mistakes
did Anne-Marie Baiynd make early in her career? What does Michael Toma wish he had known about
trading? What trading strategies work best for Linda Raschke? How does John Carter remain cool
calm and collected when the markets are sending mixed signals? And how did Todd Gordon make
the transition from part-time to full-time trader? Bourquin and Mango ask all of these
questions and more in Traders at Work and in doing so reveal insider insights on what it takes
to be a successful trader from those who are living that dream. Fascinating compelling and
filled with never-before-told stories from the front lines of the trading arena Traders at
Work is required reading for anyone who has ever asked themselves if they have what it takes to
trade for a living.
