The Traders

by Sonny Kleinfield

Book Overview

Author Sonny Kleinfield spent several months right on the trading floors of the NYSE, ASE options pit, and various New York and Chicago futures trading pits. This is a fascinating account and description of what really goes on there. You'll feel like you're standing right in the middle of the floor amidst all the frenzied excitement when you read the stories revealed by the traders interviewed and described in this book.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0030597218
• ISBN13: 9780030597213
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable

Quite an enjoyable read. I picked this up because, as someone who trades commodities electronically and has never visited an exchange, I was interested to read what it's like. This book does a good job of describing it. It gives me a better idea of what goes on "behind the scenes." Perhaps subconsciously this may even help my trading. I would recommend this book.

Changed My Life

I read this book when I was about 19 years old and it changed my life. I had no idea what a trader was or what they did. ( I only knew what Stock Brokers did) This book eventually lead me to New York where I actually called Stanley Katz and started working on the AMEX as a market maker clerk. This book is exactly what it says. All the feel of what it's like to be a trader are in here as well as a little history of the various exchanges. My copy is a closely held favorite with various signatures from several people in the book.