The Trading Game af Gary Stevenson (Bog)

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An outrageous, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world - from someone who survived the trading game and then blew it all wide open

'If 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 Wharf's 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 you'd ever imagined. Where your colleagues are dysfunctional maths geniuses, overfed public schoolboys and borderline psychopaths, yet they start to feel like family. Where soon you're the bank's 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 can't. Because nobody ever leaves.

Would you stick, or quit? Even if it meant risking everything?

Forfatter: Gary Stevenson
Sprog: Engelsk
Antal sider: 0
Forlag: Penguin Group
Udgivelsesår: 2025
Titel: The Trading Game

Sammendrag: Gary Stevenson beskriver, hvordan han som ung mand fra et arbejderklassemiljø vinder en prestigefyldt trading-konkurrence, får job i Citibank og hurtigt bliver en af bankens mest succesrige valutatradere. Han skildrer indersiden af City of London, de enorme pengebeløb, den ekstreme arbejdsrytme og den maskuline, konkurrenceprægede kultur på trading floor. Undervejs begynder han at se sammenhængen mellem finanssektorens spekulation, voksende global ulighed og de politiske beslutninger, der former almindelige menneskers liv. Bogen kombinerer insiderberetning, økonomisk kritik og personlig dannelseshistorie og sammenlignes blandt andet med “The Wolf of Wall Street”, men med større moralsk refleksion.
Type: Paperback
Engelsksproget fagbog/memoir om finansverdenen skrevet af Gary Stevenson. Bogen fortæller om hans kometkarriere fra et fattigt miljø i det østlige London til toptrader i Citibank, hvor han handler enorme beløb i finansielle markeder. Fortællingen kombinerer personlig erindring med kritisk analyse af højfinans, økonomisk ulighed, grådighed og moralsk forfald. Tonen beskrives som mørkt humoristisk, hurtig og skarp, med fokus på den psykiske og sociale pris ved livet som trader og på de strukturelle problemer i det globale finanssystem.
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