Título: The Trading Game: A Confession
Autor: Gary Stevenson
Sinopse: #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Best Wall Street Book of 2024”—Bloomberg
A “vivid” (Financial Times) rags-to-riches memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the trading floor, a “darkly funny” (Guardian) tale of Citibank’s one-time most profitable trader, and why he gave it all up
“Darker than [Liar’s Poker], but if anything even more of a rollicking read . . . the clearest account I’ve ever read of how trading desks really work.”—Felix Salmon, Axios
In development as a limited series • Longlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year
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 soccer balls on the run-down streets of East London, Gary Stevenson dreamed of something bigger. As luck would have it, he was good at numbers.
At the London School of Economics, wearing tracksuits and sneakers, Stevenson shocked his posh classmates by winning a competition called “The Trading Game.” The prize?: a golden ticket to a new life, as the youngest trader at Citibank. A place where you could make more money than you’d ever imagined. Where your colleagues are dysfunctional geniuses and insecure bullies yet start to feel like family. Where against the odds you become the bank’s most profitable trader, closing deals worth nearly a trillion dollars. A day.
Soon you are dreaming of numbers in your sleep—and then you stop sleeping at all. But what happens when winning starts to feel like losing? You’re making a killing betting on millions of people becoming poorer—like the very people you grew up with. The economy is slipping off a precipice, and 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?
The Trading Game is an outrageous, unvarnished, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world—the trading floor—from someone who survived the game and then blew it all wide open.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “The Trading Game: A Confession”, de Gary Stevenson, publicado pela editora Crown Currency, em 2025 e com 352 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Crown Currency
Páginas: 352
Ano: 2025-02-11
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0593727231
ISBN13: 9780593727232
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Crown Currency exploram temas ligados a finanças pessoais, poder no ambiente profissional e transformações econômicas, com uma abordagem que combina relatos pessoais, análises críticas e orientações práticas. A experiência de leitura costuma mesclar narrativas de superação e memórias com reflexões sobre sistemas financeiros globais e estratégias de carreira, criando um clima que varia entre o inspirador e o didático. O catálogo apresenta obras que tratam tanto de questões individuais, como autoconhecimento e gestão de dinheiro, quanto de debates amplos sobre mercados, tecnologia e cultura empresarial. Há títulos que adotam um tom mais direto e tático, enquanto outros se aprofundam em análises históricas e críticas sociais, oferecendo contrastes que enriquecem a seleção editorial.
