Trading, Sex & Dying: The Heart of a Gambler

by Juel E. Anderson

Book Overview

"Game theory is hot," says the Wall Street Journal, and many of today's most successful traders are using it to make crucial-more profitable-buying and selling decisions. Virtually every trader... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1883272246
• ISBN13: 9781883272241
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Marketplace Books
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

This is NOT a very good book for traders...

unless, perhaps, you're a floor trader on one of the exchanges, where you're competing with people, face to face, and trying to use their strengths and weaknesses to your own advantage. I'm a bit annoyed with David Caplan, the remarkable options man, for publishing it as if it was "gambling theory for traders." It certainly is not. Don't get me wrong: This fellow, Juel Anderson, is an astonishing fellow: Almost alarmingly bright and insightful, he could use the material in this book to start a quasi-relegion based upon gambling and sales insights. The book is a wonderful read, with descriptions of categories of human nature/behavior that would be very difficult to find anywhere else. However, there is actually very little discussion of gambling / trading as such... not much to apply to your trading unless you're in the pits. This book would be better placed in the psychology or psych / personal philosophy section than anywhere else... in which section, it deserves five stars.