The New Market Wizards
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The New Market Wizards is a book by Jack D. Schwager
Jack D. Schwager
Jack D. Schwager is the author of the books Market Wizards, New Market Wizards, Stock Market Wizards, and Getting Started in Technical Analysis...

 published in 1992. The format is very similar to his 1988 Market Wizards
Market Wizards
Market Wizards is a book written by Jack D. Schwager and published in 1988 in which he interviews a wide range of traders with excellent track records of profitability.The book contains four parts covering interviews with traders in a wide range of markets...

, with a new selection of interviews with super-traders.

As in the previous volume, Schwager starts with a frank discussion of his own trading experience, followed by a surprising diversion comparing Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait with a trade that went wrong.

The rest of the book is broken into five parts including interviews with different types of traders and brief discussions of the lessons to be learnt from them, plus a part on trading psychology and a final part summarising the wisdom gained from all of the interviewees in 42 golden rules.

Part III: Futures-The Variety-Pack Market

  • Randy McKay
  • William Eckhardt
    William Eckhardt (trader)
    William Eckhardt is a commodities and futures trader and fund manager. He began trading in 1974 after four years of doctoral research at the University of Chicago in mathematical logic.- Education :...

  • Monroe Trout
    Monroe Trout
    Monroe Trout, Jr. is a retired financial speculator and hedge fund manager profiled in the book New Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager. His father is Monroe E. Trout, Chairman Emeritus of American Healthcare Systems....

  • Al Weiss

Part IV: Fund Managers and Timers

  • Stanley Druckenmiller
    Stanley Druckenmiller
    Stanley Freeman Druckenmiller is an American hedge fund manager, he is the former Chairman and President of Duquesne Capital, which he founded in 1981. He closed the fund in August 2010 because he felt unable to deliver high returns to his clients...

  • Richard Driehaus
    Richard Driehaus
    Richard H. Driehaus is a fund manager, businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of Driehaus Capital Management, based in Chicago, a firm which manages US$10 billion...

  • Gil Blake
    Gil Blake
    Gil Blake is a speculator investor and fund manager who in 1980 devised an investment strategy known as mutual fund market timing, a method of investing based on the historic pricing patterns of mutual funds.- Career :...

  • Victor Sperandeo
    Victor Sperandeo
    Victor Sperandeo is a trader, index developer, and financial commentator based in Dallas, Texas. He has over 40 years of experience trading both independently and for the likes of George Soros and Leon Cooperman...


Part VI: The Money Machines

  • Mark Ritchie
    Mark Ritchie (trader)
    Mark Andrew Ritchie is a Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange commodities trader. A twenty-year veteran of the financial industry, Mark is one of the original founding partners of Chicago Research and Trading once the largest options firm in the industry...

  • Joe Ritchie
    Joe Ritchie
    Joseph Ritchie is a commodities and options trader, the founder of Chicago Research and Trading, whose capital went up from $200,000 to over $225 million in 11 years...

  • Blair Hull
    Blair Hull
    M. Blair Hull is an American businessman, investor, Democratic politician, and philanthropist.Hull founded Hull Trading Company in 1985 and served as the firm’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer before selling it to Goldman Sachs in 1999 for $531 million...

  • Jeff Yass
    Jeff Yass
    Jeffrey S. Yass is an options trader, managing director and one of the five founders of the Philadelphia-based Susquehanna International Group. In 2001 he was named one of 76 Revolutionary Minds by Philadelphia magazine and joined the Board of Directors of the Cato Institute.- Philanthropy :Yass...


Part VII: The Psychology of Trading

  • Charles Faulkner
  • Robert Krausz
    Robert Krausz
    Robert Krausz was a commodities and futures trader.As a child born in Budapest, Hungary, Robert Krausz spent most of his childhood living in one of nine ghettos formed by the Nazis during World War II, established to confine Jews into tightly packed areas of the cities of Eastern Europe...


Part VIII: Closing Bell

  • Market Wiz(ar)dom
  • A personal reflection
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