Insightful exploration into life as a trader right on the trading floor. To gather the inside knowledge necessary to write this fascinating book, author Sonny Kleinfield spent months with individual traders on the floors of 5 major financial the NYSE; American Stock Exchange (options pit); Chicago Board of Trade; Chicago Mercantile Exchange; Commodity Exchange Center. Makes you feel like you are standing right in the trading pits yourself, amidst the frenzied excitement. Pure pleasure reading that shows you what really transpires on the floor.
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.