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The Trading Game

Auteur(s): Gary Stevenson
Narrateur(s): Gary Stevenson
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#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.
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smartly told story. excellent pace. never expected to be thoroughly entertained ... chose it to learn about trading! (And did that too)

the authors voice and skilled use of vocab... Absolutely loved it!

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I appreciated Gary’s candor in his writing. Some might not enjoy his style, but I found it refreshing. Listening to this book has made me inspect and reconsider some world views I’ve had.

Genuine and Impactful

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Liked the inside story of Citibank's trading desk. It told the story of the good, the bad, and the ugly from a young successful trader's perspective

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Well told and truthful. Demystifying international banking in an up close way. Empowering book. Thanks Gary for doing the reading it made it personal

Brilliant

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it's so phenomenal at staying grounded when discussing such grandiose ideas. never gets too complex and Gary's voice and accent make it come to life.

Reads like a drama

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