Adventures of a Currency Trader by Booker, Rob. (Wiley,2007) [Hardcover]

by Rob Booker

Praise for ADVENTURES of a CURRENCY TRADER "A truly easy, unique, and enjoyable read! Rob has done it once again to teach us in the funniest way possible how not to make the most common trading mistakes. If you are tired of reading how-to books, this is perfect for you. I highly recommend this book to all traders. Everyone will learn something about themselves by reading this book."―Kathy Lien, author, Day Trading the Currency Market , and Chief Strategist, www.dailyfx.com " Adventures of a Currency Trader is a must read for anyone who has ever traded or is thinking about trading in the Forex markets. Rob Booker has a unique way of taking years of market knowledge and transforming it into an educational and entertaining experience. It has quickly become a cult classic in my trading library!"―H. Jack Bouroudjian, Principal, Brewer Investment Group "Brilliant! Rob's humor and humanity shine through in this parable about trading and life. Filled with wisdom and wit, it's an exhilarating rollercoaster ride through the peaks and valleys of the learning curve, with many valuable lessons learned along the way."―Ed Ponsi, President, FXEducator.com "Rob's fable of everyman 'Harry Banes' is destined to become a trading classic. This is both the missing piece and the foundation that comes before the strategies and methodologies. The search for the Holy Grail begins and ends in the heart and mind. The journey is authentic and real and if you're willing to take it with Rob, you will be rewarded in the end. Seldom has psychology and wisdom been so entertaining!"―Raghee Horner, trader and author of Forex Trading for Maximum Profit and Days of Forex Trading "In a series of insightful and entertaining vignettes, Rob Booker teaches both the novice and the experienced trader some hard won truths about the currency market. It's a must read book written by a guy who survived the trenches and went on to prosper in the biggest and most competitive financial market in the world."―Boris Schlossberg, Senior Currency Strategist, Forex Capital Markets LLC, and author of Technical Analysis of the Currency Market

Genres: Finance

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Vasco · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this book. It's an excellent story involving all the forex trading elements and mechanics and it's very compelling to read at the same time.

[Mark Easter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Praise for ADVENTURES of a CURRENCY TRADER

"A truly easy, unique, and enjoyable read! Rob has done it once again to teach us in the funniest way possible how not to make the most common trading mistakes. If you are tired of reading how-to books, this is perfect for you. I highly recommend this book to all traders. Everyone will learn something about themselves by reading this book."
—Kathy Lien, author, Day Trading the Currency Market, and Chief Strategist, www.dailyfx.com

"Adventures of a Currency Trader is a must read for anyone who has ever traded or is thinking about trading in the Forex markets. Rob Booker has a unique way of taking years of market knowledge and transforming it into an educational and entertaining experience. It has quickly become a cult classic in my trading library!"
—H. Jack Bouroudjian, Principal, Brewer Investment Group

"Brilliant! Rob's humor and humanity shine through in this parable about trading and life. Filled with wisdom and wit, it's an exhilarating rollercoaster ride through the peaks and valleys of the learning curve, with many valuable lessons learned along the way."
—Ed Ponsi, President, FXEducator.com

"Rob's fable of everyman 'Harry Banes' is destined to become a trading classic. This is both the missing piece and the foundation that comes before the strategies and methodologies. The search for the Holy Grail begins and ends in the heart and mind. The journey is authentic and real and if you're willing to take it with Rob, you will be rewarded in the end. Seldom has psychology and wisdom been so entertaining!"
—Raghee Horner, trader and author of Forex Trading for Maximum Profit and  Days of Forex Trading

"In a series of insightful and entertaining vignettes, Rob Booker teaches both the novice and the experienced trader some hard won truths about the currency market. It's a must read book written by a guy who survived the trenches and went on to prosper in the biggest and most competitive financial market in the world."
—Boris Schlossberg, Senior Currency Strategist, Forex Capital Markets LLC, and author of Technical Analysis of the Currency Market

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[Gregory Downey · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book for anyone wanting to learn to trade currencies and to do it successfuly.
It will be added to my personal list of classics.
It is written very similar to the works of Og Mandino - A story wherein the Principles that Booker wants you to glean form the story are very obvious.
Althought there is a lot of basic currency trading education in the book, it is clear that Booker wanted to emphasize Trading Discipline and controling ones emotions more than anything else. Which I think was the most valuable aspect of the book.
I appreciated his views on character and integrity.
He uses dialogue between the characters, facts, figures (screen shots of trading platform charts), and gives practical definitions which I think the reader will find helpful. They were helpful to me any way.

[Triffany · Rating 4 out of 5]

This fictional story of an individual currency trader is sort of the story of 'any man' who decides to trade for a living.

You get a chance to attend the school of hard knocks with Harry Banes and learn from his mistakes, hopefully avoiding them yourself if you decide to take that route to financial independence.

It's real and it is a story I've heard over and over again from successful FX traders around the world.

If you are at all considering being a personal investor of ANY kind, but especially one of the Forex Market, this is a great book to prep you for what you could be up against and to arm you for the battle toward becoming successful.

[Girish Nayyar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book I have read so far on currency trading. For the first time I really understood what they mean by creating a system with rules and how important these two things are combined with money management for any success in the world of trading.

There were in numerous occasions during the narration of Harry's story that I could relate to and gave me an opportunity to self introspect the things I had been wrong on in my personal trading.

It was a fantastic read with lot of entertaining sections and I think I will read it again after some time to reinforce the principles learnt through the book.

[Jammie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Adventures of a Currency Trader is a fun book about an every day common guy dipping his toes into the world of financial markets. Knowing nothing about this type of trading before, I learned a good bit about currencies in a general way, but even more valuable, I learned about the importance of mindset, studying your craft, and being responsible with risk management. Arguably, these items are more crucial to success than strategy, no matter what type of trading you’re doing.

Rob succeeded in imparting his wisdom about the important things in a fun, easy-to-read format. Great book!

[Anard · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's fun, entertaining, but yet educating as well.
I'll be glad if someone would make a movie based on this book.

[Read · Rating 2 out of 5]

More good trading advice from Rob Booker, but this time as a novel. pretty interesting.

[Bing Bong · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's entertaining! It's familiar! It's a veracious account of the many common pitfalls new forex traders might go through.

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

I could put this book down after I started reading it. One of the best books ever on trading/investing.

[Piotr Karaś · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked this book very much. It's such a rarity - this kind of literature.

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

easy reading book...recommendation for those beginners :)