Market Wizards

by Jack D. Schwager

How do the world’s most successful traders amass tens, hundreds of millions of dollars a year? Are they masters of an occult knowledge, lucky winners in a random market lottery, natural-born virtuosi—Mozarts of the markets? In search of an answer, bestselling author Jack D. Schwager interviewed dozens of top traders across most financial markets. While their responses differed in the details, all of them could be boiled down to the same essential formula: solid methodology + proper mental attitude = trading success. In Market Wizards Schwager lets you hear, in their own words, what those super-traders had to say about their unprecedented successes, and he distils their responses down into a set of guiding principles you can use to become a trading star in your own right.

Features interviews with superstar money-makers including Bruce Kovner, Richard Dennis, Paul Tudor Jones, Michel Steinhardt, Ed Seykota, Marty Schwartz, Tom Baldwin, and more.

Tells the true stories behind sensational trading coups, including the one about the trader who turned $30,000 into $80 million, the hedge fund manager who’s averaged 30% returns every year for the past twenty-one years, and the T-bond futures trader who parlayed $25,000 into $2 billion in a single day!

Key Lessons from
Jack Schwager

In this Opalesque.TV video interview, we interview bestselling author Jack Schwager on his most recent book, “The Little Book of Market Wizards: Lessons from the Greatest Traders.” In the book, Jack summarizes the key lessons from his four previous Market Wizard books and offers insights from some of the world’s top financial traders, including Paul Tudor Jones, Bruce Kovner and Ray Dalio. He discusses how many of these trading titans often faced early or even multiple failures, and how “Talent, Perseverance and Belief” helped keep them on the trac to massive success. Schwager also points out the significance of risk management and having pre-defined exit points as critical elements of trading success.

You will hear about:

• How trading success can be applied to any field

• Early failure has led to success for many of the greatest traders

• The best investors prioritize risk management over trade entry

• Risk management lessons from investing legends like Paul Tudor Jones, Ray Dalio

• Bruce Kovner: Pre-defined exit points are critical — the only time you have objectivity is before the trade