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If you're thinking about day trading for a living, take a cold shower and then read The Day Traders. If you read the book first, you may not need the shower. If you do both and still want to day trade, you may well have what it takes to succeed, and this book will certainly help. Gregory J. Millman, a financial journalist and author of The Vandal's Crown, tells a behind-the-scenes story of how technology and scandal brought bucket shops to cyberspace, how ordinary folks, exploiting the disintegration of the old order, are becoming gunslingers in an extreme financial video game offering danger to all who try it and limitless rewards to those few who succeed.

Day traders must have intense focus and discipline, keen minds, fast reflexes--oh, and plenty of capital. Their prosperity depends on entering up to 300 trades a day, successfully pitting themselves against the best professional traders at the biggest Wall Street houses. And it's not getting any easier, for as day trading has made markets more efficient--narrowing spreads and increasing liquidity--more efficient markets make successful day trading even more difficult as the spreads narrow. Millman interviews the patriarchs and prophets of modern day trading, along with technologists, regulators, lawyers, market makers and of course--lots of day traders. A psychologist who treats many day traders says the game is pathologically addictive with sometimes fatal consequences. There's a chapter devoted to the bucket-shop wizard of the Gilded Age, the first day trading master, Jesse Livermore, whose penetrating insights are gospel for many traders (and immortalized in Edwin Lefèvre's Reminiscences of a Stock Operator). Both Livermore and a recent Atlanta day trader blew their brains out in the end, the latter taking several other day traders with him.

But those who aspire to the calling will find much useful information and advice here, including a checklist to consider before starting, and an overview of a month-long "boot-camp" course on markets, trading technology, and extreme investing. Everyone else will find a vastly entertaining and informative read about an important but somewhat bizarre aspect of our market system and how it works. --Scott Harrison

Book Description

The gold rush that is revolutionizing Wall Street and the markets--the story of day trading as it's never been told
In The Day Traders, Gregory Millman goes behind the scenes to reveal the truth about a modern gold rush that has people from all walks of life playing the market online, in real time, just like Wall Street's biggest pros. This is the story of the extreme investing scene, where the upside dazzles and the threat of financial injury is dire. And whether the day-trading phenomenon lasts a hundred years or ends tomorrow, the markets we know as "Wall Street" will never be the same. Millman chronicles how that happened and why, who wins and who loses.
Here are just a few of the players you will meet:
¸  The "King of the Bandits," the first upstart to beat the Wall Street establishment at its own game
¸  The techno-rebels who launched a revolution in the markets and put the New York Stock Ex-change and Nasdaq on the run
¸  The shady courtroom antagonists whose im-broglio of lawsuits and investigations have pried the lid off day trading's best-kept secrets--including allegations of fraud, money laundering,
corporate espionage, racketeering, and more
This is a story of people testing themselves against almost impossible odds. "Trading is incredibly intense," says one psychologist. "It can suck you in. At the end of the day you feel good or bad about yourself as a person based on whether you've made or lost money." One young doctor won so much playing the markets in med school that he left medicine for the life of a trader, only to spiral down into compulsive gambling, barely escaping the worst.
Step inside a day-trading course with Millman and take an objective look at the methods and lessons of the game. Meet other would-be traders: a mother-and-daughter team, a Thai immigrant, a former small-business owner seeking a new career after disability ended his first, a onetime mining engineer trying to regain his self-esteem after being laid off for several years. All of them are eager to join the virtual gold rush and try their luck at a high-stakes game whose first rule is: Forget everything you ever knew about investing.
Millman shows why the game gets harder even as it gets bigger, and shows how technology is turning day trading into an international phenomenon, opening new markets and breaking old rules. Some have found a way to make millions even on losing trades--like the failed Texas trader who lost big online but won bigger in court by suing the investor who lent him money to cover margin calls.
The Day Traders also includes "The Extreme Investor's Manual"--a handy how-to look at day trading that includes the principles of successful trading as well as a guide to taking your broker to court if things go awry, as they frequently do in this high-stakes world.

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Confuse compilation of unrelated stories around day-trading.......2007-01-09

Gregory Millman's book "The Day Traders" is a confuse compilation of several unrelated stories around the stock market and day-trading.

The first chapter describes how Harvey Houtkin, the "original SOES bandit", enforced the access to the stock systems for private persons, and his trading firm All-Tech.
Chapter 2 briefly touches upon life and trading of Jesse Livermore.
Chapters 3and 4 cover the development of electronic stock market systems for the Nasdaq, while Chapter 5 does the same for the Italian and German stock market systems.
Chapter 6 deals with the Townsend couple programming a system called Archipelago.
Chapter 7 describes how a fund manager (Erik Tonley) can buy hundred thousands or even millions of shares without influencing the share price negatively -- not very relevant for the individual investor/trader.

If you found this summary confusing, that's because the book is very confusing.

In chapter 8 things get finally a little entertaining. It describes a typical day trading course in Houtkin's All-Tech trading firm, with all the different characters trying to learn how to trade, and all the pitfalls they encounter in the learning process.

In chapter 9, a guy called Kevin Burke sued his day-trading brokerage for charging a too high interest rate on his margin loans, and won $3.5 million. Chapter 10 describes a few cases of the Texas securities commissioner Denise Voigt Crawford. The most interesting take-away message from this last chapter was that 90% of day traders lose money, many of them all their savings.

The final part of the book that I had high hopes for is the "Extreme Investor's Manual of Online Day Trading". It talks about the risks of day-trading, how to take your broker to court, and about the electronic systems (Nasdaq Level I and II, ECNs, SelectNet, Market Makers and SOES). Since this book was written in 1999, I don't even know if these systems still exist. Finally, this manual also contains 10 pages of tips and information for day-traders to be.

After having read the whole book, I asked myself who this book was intended for (certainly not me). I could only come up with a student who has to write a paper on the beginnings of day trading, the electronic systems involved and the law suits related to it.

I cannot recommend this book, but if you want to read it anyway, I suggest that you forget about the first 110 pages, read chapter 8 because it is entertaining, forget about chapters 9 and 10, and read again the "Extreme Investor's Manual". This way you save yourself reading the boring and confusing two thirds of the book.

A primer on a recent phenomenon.......2006-08-06

This book is a rivetting read on a recent phenomenon of day trading. It traced the beginning of the fight for individual access to the electronic stock market which was dominated by inside market makers.

The author provided exhausting details on the history and inner workings of the electronic market. The book also contains some good day trading tips.

A must read for any student of the market or aspiring day trader.

Insightful!.......2002-11-06

Although the day-trading fad largely disappeared along with the paper profits of the 1990s high-tech bubble, a committed cadre of extreme investors continue to test their mettle against an unforgiving market. Day traders use computer links to stock markets to trade fast and frequently in the hope of profiting from small moves in stock prices. They are lured by the promise of riches, but many are unsuited for the risky venture and ultimately lose everything. Gregory Millman traces the history of day trading, with an emphasis on the unique pitfalls posed by this endeavor. Millman deciphers trading jargon and includes a section outlining the most common techniques utilized by day traders. We from getAbstract recommend this book for its insightful glimpse into a little understood phenomenon.

excellent overview of the subject.......2001-12-25

An excellent and highly objective overview of the '90s day trading fad written by a journalist, rather than an author trying to sell a trading book by exploiting the reader's presumed desire to get rich. How ironic that the former book is now out of print while the latter books continue to sell like hotcakes.

The book accurately reports that every time regulators have reviewed the records of day trading firms, a minimum of 90 percent of the traders were losing money. In one instance, at the Boston office of a national day trading firm, 67 out of the 68 traders there were losing money. The book also mentions that a very small number of traders are successful, although the market environment that most likely allowed them to succeed no longer exists. That is, most of these traders played momentum swings in grossly overpriced Internet and high-tech stocks. Many of these stocks, the ones that still exist, are trading at a fraction of their former prices, for example $8 vs. $280.

The chapter on day trading "boot camp" ironically is probably the most informative discussion of day trading strategies I have read.

I was particularly entertained by the account of how one individual left his one million dollar nest egg with a day trading firm and gave them discretionary trading authority over the account before he left on a trip, probably too naive to realize what he had done. The firm's traders traded the account down to $30,000, while one of the firms principals was continually hitting on this individual's attractive girlfriend. When she repeatedly rebuffed his advances, he finally said, "what do you see in him, you know he is broke". This is a perfect illustration of the type of people that operated these day trading firms. Their strategy was to soak the traders by charging $25 commissions while all along knowing that the chance of the traders succeeding was extremely remote.

It is possible, although very difficult to make a living as a trader; in every era of history where there have been securities markets, some individuals have done this. However, the infamous "day trading" phenomenon (the term "day trader" now being pejorative) attempted to sell naive individuals the notion that anyone could do it, all the while playing on their desire to get rich quick.

Informative, well-researched and entertaining.......2000-06-13

If you're thinking of becoming a day trader, this book is not a "how to" manual, but it's a good start, providing some invaluable insight into the personalities and forces at work in the world of electronic stock trading. Author Gregory Millman uses the term "extreme" to refer to day traders, much in the same way as we might categorize those athletes who master balance and gravity-defying acts to achieve a sporting "rush" beyond that achieved by professionals in the mainstream sports. Look upon the successful day trader in the same light as the skateboarder who had to fall thousands of times prior to succeeding in the X-Games. The only difference is that the skateboarder is more likely to make it big.

Millman has talked to the true movers and shakers in the field, and relies on some great behind-the-scenes research and his experience in writing for numerous financial publications, to bring us a book that is at once a history lesson, an eye into a day trading "boot camp," and even a test kit for the reader to see if he or she is fit (financially, emotionally, etc.) for what may turn out to be the investing (gambling?) craze of the new millennium.

This book is easy to read and quite captivating. Whether or not you're a broker, a "buy-and-hold" investor, a gambler, or just plain intrigued by what all those playing in the stock market seem to be talking (i.e., bragging) about at parties these days, you will enjoy this book. Even the Electronic Traders Association risk disclosure statement was interesting! Millman's style is smooth, and won't trip you up with dry details or obscure jargon. I read this in just a few hours; can't wait for his next one.

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New material has been added, including the "Working Procedures for Appellate Review", and the "Rules of Conduct for the DSU" in the second edition. The provisions on consultation and on dispute settlement in each of the Multilateral Trade Agreements covered by the DSU are now collected together. Cross references between the texts have been extended and key words within the index have been augmented to reflect the extended coverage.

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Biofertilizer technology transfer: Proceedings of the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary National Seminar held at Aurangabad, October 14-16, 1989

Manufacturer: Associated Pub. Co
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ASIN: 8185211280

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This book brings together, for the first time, information on various wetland classification systems and wetland inventories from around the world, outlining regional, national and local wetland classifications developed in Africa, Australia, Canada, China, Europe, India, South America and the USA. Oriented towards the conservation and management of wetlands, these existing national and regional classification systems have been useful in providing an essential base for the development of an international system. The volume also reviews various attempts at drawing up an inventory of wetlands in different parts of the world, ranging from field and literature surveys to highly sophisticated efforts using aerial photography and satellite imaging.
Audience: Workers in wetland ecology, especially those working on classification, inventory, conservation, or management of wetlands at the local, national, regional or international levels.

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Most of our knowledge about the physical structure and the chemical composition of the Earth's deep interior is inferred from seismic data. The interpretation of seismic waves generally follows the assumption that the Earth's physical structure is grossly layered and that fluctuations of the physical parameters within individual layers are smooth in structure and small in magnitude. While this view greatly facilitates the analytic and interpretative procedure, it is clearly at odds with evidence from outcrops and boreholes, which indicates that compositional, structural and petrophysical heterogeneity in the Earth prevails over a wide range of scales.

This book is the first to unify three different views of crustal and upper mantle heterogeneity. It brings together the geological view, which is derived from the analysis of crustal exposures and deep boreholes; the stochastic view, which attempts to find order and structure in these seemingly chaotic data; and the seismological view, which considers the end product of the complex interaction of seismic energy with the heterogeneous structure at depth. John Goff and Klaus Holliger have compiled chapters that explore and quantify the relationship between geological and petrophysical heterogeneity and its seismic response, and use seismic data to probe the fabric of the Earth's interior. Geologists, geostaticians, and geophysicists alike will benefit from the integrative perspective presented in Heterogeneity in the Crust and Upper Mantle: Nature, Scaling, and Seismic Properties, making this text an unparalleled reference for professionals and students in Earth science fields.

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Review from The Eggs, December 2003.......2004-01-22

"Primarily aimed at the researcher, this book provides an excellent introductory overview to the subject, which should be read by any Earth Scientist wishing to gain an insight into the characterisation and imaging of crustal and upper mantle heterogeneity. It should be an essential part of any reference collection."
The Eggs (Newsletter of the E.G.U.), Issue #6, December 2003

Heterogeneity in the Crust and Upper Mantle: Nature, Scaling and Seismic Properties

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Heterogeneity in the Crust and Upper Mantle: Nature, Scaling and Seismic Properties
John A.; Holliger, Klaus Goff
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: B000OSKHF6

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Describes fifteen years' work which has led to the construc- tion of solutions to non-linear relativistic local field e- quations in 2 and 3 space-time dimensions. Gives proof of the existence theorem in 2 dimensions and describes many properties of the solutions.

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Constructive Quantum Field Theory by its founders.......2001-04-27

People who complain that this book is uneccessarily hard to read probably have bought it for the wrong reasons, guided by its deceptive title. This is NOT a standard book on quantum mechanics via path integrals, as is the marvellous book by Feynman and Hibbs, among others. This is the bible on Constructive QFT (CQFT), the most recent of all attempts to put QFT on a sound mathematical basis, written by two of its founders. This IS hard physics AND hard math (Wiener integrals, unbounded operators, etc.).

The book is remarkable because it collects the basics and most of the memorable results on CQFT: renormalizability of two and three-dimensional models, constructive gauge theory (indispensable for lattice gauge theories), relatioships with statistical mechanics, consistency of non-linear models, etc., associated with the insight that only the pioneers can give.

Although the book is reasonably self-contained, it is strongly recommended to have a fair grounding on analysis, quantum mechanics and basic quantum field theory. The last part of the book (chapters 13-23) is meant for pros, requiring more maturity.

Anyway, it's tough to find similar texts on this subject. The reader who is interested in this field of research and have some guts for tough mathematical physics certainly will be rewarded. This tome surely stands on its subject in the same footing that Haag's "Local Quantum Physics" on Algebraic QFT (another deceptive title).

Not well written.......1999-10-07

This book is unnecessarily hard to rea

Quantum Physics: A Functional Integral Point of View

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Quantum Physics: A Functional Integral Point of View
James, and Jaffe, Arthur Glimm
Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000P4855I

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Just amazing.......2002-04-06

I am a hugely ardent fan of the movie... and I think I have to admit that is even better. It goes into a lot more depth, and it is darker - this is apparently what Pogue really wanted to do with the screenplay but couldn't. You get tons more about character here too and the whole story is filled out. There are some very funny bits (Gilbert's first encounter with Draco par example...), and some haunting dark passages - a lot of Einon's thoughts... It's just a beautifully written, very emotional story. In the end it's good vs evil, but heroism is never simplistic here. The main characters are incredibly strong, memorable... not to mention working wonderfully as dramatic foils for each other :)

And everything describing Draco and his thoughts is just beautiful. There's a bit near the end where he wants a last flight and sunshine which breaks my heart every time.

I used to get this book out of the library on a regular basis until I finally tracked down a second-hand copy. The sort of book I will gladly stay up all night reading, and have done.

(Note: this review was written about the book, not audio cassette edition...)

Literate Fantasy.......1999-07-08

I read this book because of an article I read in which Charles Edward Pogue claimed that his screenplays for Dragonheart & Kull were savaged by their Directors. To give the man a fair shake, I read his Dragonheart Novel. I can see why he was so upset! Wherever the film takes a wrong turn, the Novel goes in the right direction. Everything that is wrong about the film is RIGHT in the Novel. The writing, while now and then a little spare [which is better than overwriting] and a little too modern, is, overall, exceedingly literate [some of the dialogue is close to Tad Williams level]. The characters are believable and involving. The story explains itself and it's world. I HIGHLY recommend buying a copy of Dragonheart!

I like the part in the book where Dragonheart dies!!!!.......1999-03-03

Ijust have to say that I love this book!! Also the movie is Awesome!!!!

The greatest dragon-story I ever read!.......1998-06-06

DragonHeart was a great movie, and this book is even more! It is about a dragon, Draco, but it is also about morals, codes, ethics, choices, and it was a story that makes you think. It also adds onto the movie, because the book goes much more into depth about the characters and their histories, thoughts, and dreams in a way I think the movie only touched on. I recommend this book to anyone who loves fantasy, adventure, dragons, or the stars.

This is one of the best novilizations I've read.......1997-07-31

When I first saw Dragonheart in the theatre my first thought was "I want the soundtrack!" My second was "I wonder if it's a book?" Many things from the movie are more thoroughly explained in the book(like what the things on Bowen's shield are) and at an earlier point in the story. Sometimes its hard to make things clear in a movie without getting too graphic! This book provided me with a lot of good reading because I was able to read it many times over without getting bored. I just hope Mr. Pogue does more work of this calibre in the future

Shadowrun 28: Clockwork Asylum: Dragonheart Saga 2 (Shadowrun)

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Precursor to Oblivion?

Shadowrun 28: Clockwork Asylum: Dragonheart Saga 2 (Shadowrun)
Jak Koke
Manufacturer: Roc
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ASIN: 0451456203

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In this second book of the greatest epic in Shadowrun history--the maelstrom of cyber-magic and political intrigue following President Dunkelzahn's assassination rages out of control. Ryan Mercury, Dunkelzahn's secret agent, is torn between his duty and his desire to find a killer. But when a spirit wrongly concludes that Ryan is working for the enemy, he anoints a cyberzombie to carry out a hit of its own. Now with an impressive arsenal of allies, weaponry, and the Dragon Heart, Ryan just might pull off the save of the century--if he doesn't lose his life first!

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Precursor to Oblivion?.......1998-02-02

Probably not, but by the ending of this book you would think it is. The story continued from 'Stranger Souls' is great, and includes something not found in most of the Shadowrun novels; soul-searching. Almost all of the main characters must undergo some type of search for their true feelings, and the Aztlaner burnout-mage Oscuro is using faces a crucial conflict in herself that is unseen in any other Shadowrun novel. The action scenes are still intense, especially the conflict between Ryan and Burnout in Dunkelzahn's Georgetown mansion. The cameo by Damien Knight is a nice touch, and explains some event revealed back in 'Portfolio of a Dragon'. The character is one of the most interesting in the two books. The ending of the book is a cliffhanger, but it sets up for what looks to be an incredible conclusion.

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Dragonheart (Penguin Readers, Level 2)
Gabriel
Manufacturer: Pearson ESL
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Binding: Paperback

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Dragonheart

Manufacturer: Egmont Childrens Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Dragonheart (Penguin Readers: Level 2)
Adriana Gabriel
Manufacturer: Longman
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: 0582405629

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Dragonheart Activity Book
Devra Speregen
Manufacturer: Troll Communications
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Dragonheart Creativity Center C/Trb/Ww
Cmsds 60016
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Interactive
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Binding: CD-ROM
ASIN: 1573030325

Dragonheart Fantasy Card-Game Book (Dragonheart)

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Pick up a Sword!

Dragonheart Fantasy Card-Game Book (Dragonheart)
Michael Bergman
Manufacturer: Price Stern Sloan
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0843182059

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Pick up a Sword!.......2000-06-02

DragonHeart, the Fantasy Card Game Book begins with a quicksynopsis of the story behind the movie, then proceeds to give a shortdetail of each character, and finally introduces you to the game. A wonderful way to be slowly introduced into the game itself! The collector will love the way in which the tale is displayed, each page beautifully decorated with images of Draco that one would expect sewn into tapestries of ancient times. Children will love the promotional shots taken from the movie, the background story and the games themselves, which play at an easy level but do require some skill. Just the right tempo for those who haven't quite grasped full Pokeman fever.

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Dragonheart Junior Novel
Dragonhe
Manufacturer: Egmont Childrens Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Dragonheart. (Lernmaterialien)
Patrick R. Johnson , and Charles E. Pogue
Manufacturer: Langensch.-Hachette, M
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