Description
Gary grew up kicking broken footballs on the streets of East London beneath the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf, dreaming of something bigger. After winning a bank competition called The Trading Game, he receives a golden ticket to a new life as the youngest trader in the city. He enters a world of vast sums, dysfunctional mathematical geniuses, overfed public schoolboys and borderline psychopaths who gradually begin to feel like family. Soon he is the bank’s most profitable trader, dealing in nearly a trillion dollars a day, dreaming of numbers and eventually losing the ability to sleep. But what happens when winning starts to feel like losing, when the easiest way to make money is to bet on millions of people becoming poorer, and when the collapsing economy begins to take his sanity with it? He wants to stop, but nobody ever leaves. This is an outrageous, gripping journey into the dark heart of the trading world, from someone who survived it and exposed it all.
Information
Author: Stevenson Gary
Language: English
Publication date: March 5, 2024
Manufacturer: The Book Service Ltd (Penguin)
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Business books in english, Non-fiction literature in english
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 407
ISBN/EAN: 9780241688274