Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xv

Prologue: The Jademaster xvii

Part I: Trading Perspectives

Misadventures in Trading 3

Hussein Makes a Bad Trade 13

Part II: The World’s Biggest Market

Bill Lipschutz: The Sultan of Currencies 19

Part III: futures—The Variety-Pack Market

Futures: Understanding the Basics 83

Randy McKay: Veteran Trader 87

William Eckhardt: The Mathematician New Market Wizards 121

The Silence of the Turtles 161

Monroe Trout: The Best Return That Low Risk Can Buy 175

Al Weiss: The Human Chart Encyclopedia 207

Part IV: Fund Managers And Timers

Stanley Druckenmiller: The Art of Top-Down Investing 217

Richard Driehaus: The Art of Bottom-Up Investing 247

Gil Blake: The Master of Consistency 269

Victor Sperandeo: Markets Grow Old Too 293

Part V: Multiple-Market Players

Tom Basso: Mr. Serenity 327

Linda Bradford Raschke: Reading the Music of the Markets 345

Part VI: The Money Machines

CRT: The Trading Machine 367

Mark Ritchie: God in the Pits 373

Joe Ritchie: The Intuitive Theoretician 401

Blair Hull: Getting the Edge 425

Jeff Yass: The Mathematics of Strategy 455

Part VII: The Psychology Of Trading

Zen and the Art of Trading 481

Charles Faulkner: The Mind of an Achiever 485

Robert Krausz: The Role of the Subconscious 517

Part VIII: Closing Bell

Market Wiz(ar)dom 543

A Personal Reflection 565

Appendix 567

Glossary 573

Trading Resource Guide 585 

Praise for THE NEW MARKET WIZARDS

"Jack Schwager simply writes the best books about trading I've ever read. These interviews always give me a lot to think about. If you like learning about traders and trading, you'll find that reading this book is time well spent." —Richard Dennis, President, The Dennis Trading Group, Inc.

"Jack Schwager's deep knowledge of the markets and his extensive network of personal contacts throughout the industry have set him apart as the definitive market chronicler of our age." —Ed Seykota

"Very interesting indeed!" —John Train, author of The Money Masters

"Successful trading demands longtime experience because it requires firsthand knowledge. If there is a shortcut to this requirement, however, it is in reading about the experiences of others. Jack Schwager's book provides that shortcut. If you find yourself sweating upon occasion as you read, then you're as close to the trading experience as you can get without actually doing it yourself." —Robert R. Prechter, Jr., Editor, The Elliott Wave Theorist

"Are great traders born or do they acquire their skills on the way up? . . . The New Market Wizards provides some interesting insights." —The Wall Street Journal

"Provides unique insight into the arcane world of currency trading as well as other fast-moving markets such as options and commodities." —U.S. News & World Report

"Should be required reading for anyone who selects managers for institutional or even personal portfolios." —Futures Industry

Taps into the minds of trading superstars to reveal the secrets of their astonishing success

You may not know their names, but they are the trading elite—a select group of super-moneymakers whose trading prowess has become the stuff of legend. They are speculators in everything from stocks and bonds to options and commodity futures who make millions—sometimes in a matter of hours—and leave their peers in the dust. In this enthralling sequel to his international bestseller, Market Wizards, Jack Schwager interviews these stars, asking the questions that everyone with an interest in the financial markets would love to know the answers to and receiving the kind of frank, incisive answers that make this book as much a page-turner as its predecessor.

In these absorbing interviews with star performers in the financial markets, Schwager humanizes the mechanics and psychology behind the trading world across a spectrum of financial markets including stocks, futures, currencies, and options by individuals, investment firms, and group-trading computerized "money machines." One trader focuses on market response to news events, another calculates mathematical probabilities—one even cocks an ear to the noise level on the exchange floor. All rank assiduous research, self-confidence, a specific plan, and the courage to cut losses among essentials to success. None consider their trading gambling, but Schwager entertainingly argues that a successful trader needs many of the qualities of a good poker player. Although filled with insights that even professional traders will find valuable, Schwager's text remains entire accessible to the general reader.