The Trading Game: A Confession by Gary Stevenson Hardcover Book

Description: The Trading Game by Gary Stevenson The high-wire true story of the millionaire trader, who won the finance game and then blew it wide openIf you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around?Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken footballs on the streets of East London in the shadow of Canary Wharfs skyscrapers, Gary wanted something better. Something a whole lot bigger.Then he won a competition run by a bank- The Trading Game. The prize- a golden ticket to a new life, as the youngest trader in the whole city. A place where you could make more money than youd ever imagined. Where your colleagues are dysfunctional maths geniuses, overfed public schoolboys and borderline psychopaths, yet they start to feel like family. Where soon youre the banks most profitable trader, dealing in nearly a trillion dollars. A day. Where you dream of numbers in your sleep - and then stop sleeping at all.But what happens when winning starts to feel like losing? When the easiest way to make money is to bet on millions becoming poorer and poorer - and, as the economy starts slipping off a precipice, your own sanity starts slipping with it? You want to stop, but you cant. Because nobody ever leaves.Would you stick, or quit? Even if it meant risking everything?This is an outrageous, unvarnished, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world - from someone who survived the game and then blew it all wide open. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Gary Stevenson left his trading career behind, convinced that solving inequality was the only way to repair the world economy. He has since studied for an MPhil at Oxford, worked with economic think-tanks and founded a YouTube channel, GarysEconomics, teaching people about real-world economics. He regularly appears on television and radio and has written for the Guardian and OpenDemocracy, among others. Review An incredibly important and timely book, very much of its era. The Wolf of Wall Street with a moral compass, it lays bare the spiritual vacuity of the systems and processes that both dominate and reduce our humanity. -- Irvine WelshCompelling, intensely readable, unsettling. An unforgettable story of greed, financial madness and moral decay. -- Rory StewartAstonishing, enraging, extremely funny and exquisitely sad - a magnificent exposé of the masters of the universe whose greed imperils us all. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. -- The Secret BarristerThe Trading Game is the best finance memoir Ive ever read. Gary Stevensons tale of plundering Wall Street like some kind of cockney pirate is by turn hilarious and harrowing. A thrilling read that raises profound questions about who runs the global financial system. -- Zeke Faux, author of Number Go UpA well written and often darkly funny book that makes a convincing case that high finance is as toxic, reckless and deeply cynical as ever. * Guardian *The Trading Game is Stevensons account — his confession — of how he achieved this dream, becoming Citibanks most profitable trader, and how it made him angry, dejected and ill. There are parallels with Liars Poker by Michael Lewis, an autobiographical account of a young mans adventures in the financial markets… This dark but profitable vision is lightened by moments of comic self-importance. * The Times *Stevenson is a sharp observer, with a gift for colourful if merciless description… His breakdown started with trading mania and ended with his exile to the Tokyo office, pleading to be allowed to leave. His bonuses had brought him torment, not freedom. * Financial Times *For a self-proclaimed mathematics nerd, Stevenson is a fine wordsmith. His greatest strength is his ability to unravel complex concepts… Stevenson candidly shares his traumas and experiences… finance, for all its allure and excess, is a world where excess comes at a cost, a cost not measured in dollars but in the essence of who we become. * Daily Telegraph *As a critique of the monstrous modern evolutions of finance, Gary Stevensons account of the frenzy and follies of trading "trillions a day" on behalf of the US giant Citibank is powerful… Rude and funny… demotic fast-paced prose... he tells a vivid story and invites us to make our own judgement. * TLS *Gary Stevensons rags-to-riches memoir exposes a system where the rich cant lose and the economy is choked by inequality.… Stevenson brings alive the unease of trying to survive in the purgatorial space between being an employee and an outsider… * New Statesman * Details ISBN0241636604 Author Gary Stevenson Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780241636602 Format Hardcover Imprint Allen Lane Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom ISBN-10 0241636604 NZ Release Date 2024-03-28 AU Release Date 2024-03-28 Subtitle A Confession Publication Date 2024-03-05 UK Release Date 2024-03-05 Pages 432 Audience General DEWEY 332.6323 Alternative 9781802062731 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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