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Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager — WisdomDeck honest review
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Market Wizards

by Jack D. Schwager

Interviews with the great traders of the 1980s: Paul Tudor Jones, Ed Seykota, Bruce Kovner, Michael Marcus, Richard Dennis and the Turtles. Different methods, one common thread: risk control and discipline. The founding book of the trader-interview genre.

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you want to learn from traders' own words rather than a system seller.

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you want a method; the book shows there is no single one.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Everybody gets what they want out of the market.
  2. Cut losses; let winners run; never add to a loser.
  3. Risk management is the method.

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The founding trader interviews.

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