Your Book Review: The Laws of Trading - by a reader
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Finalist #10 in the Book Review Contest
[This is one of the finalists in the 2023 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I’ll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you’ve read them all, I’ll ask you to vote for a favorite, so remember which ones you liked] A book about trading isn’t ever actually about trading1. It is either: A former trader sharing stories from their glory days, e.g. Liar’s Poker, the exposé that morphed into a how-to guide, or Tales of Icarus flying too close to the sun, where readers revel in schadenfreude, e.g., When Genius…
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