The Traders

by Sonny Kleinfield

Offers a look at the lives, careers, and characters of five successful traders, investment professionals who operate on the nation's stock exchanges and commodities markets

209 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1986

About the author

Sonny Kleinfield is a reporter for the New York Times and the author of eight books. He has contributed articles to the Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, Esquire, and Rolling Stone, and was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal before joining the Times. He shared in a Pulitzer Prize for a Times series on race in America, and has received a number of other accolades, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Meyer Berger Award, an American Society of Newspaper Editors Award, and the Gerald Loeb Award. A native of Fair Lawn, New Jersey, he is a graduate of New York University and lives in New York City.

Reviews

[Katharine · Rating 4 out of 5]

It feels almost as fast-paced at the trading floors Kleinfield discusses. Fascinating and fun to read.

[Monzenn · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great series of vignettes about the lives of several traders. Hit the usual asset classes, though there wasn't much on rates trading which was unfortunate. Still the existing stories were good.