Who recommended Market Wizards?

6 people have recommended Market Wizards in the interviews, articles and reading lists we track, including Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Raoul Pal, Steve Burns and Abhishek Kar. Each name links to their full reading list.

Is Market Wizards worth reading?

6 people we track recommend it. It is best for: an aspiring discretionary trader trying to build a personal trading plan: helpful because it supplies real-world rules about position sizing, stops, and decision routines you can adapt.; a junior analyst at a trading desk wanting to understand how experienced operators handle risk and errors in live markets: useful for seeing applied judgment under pressure.; a long-only portfolio manager shifting toward shorter-term or active trading and needing concrete examples of mental discipline and risk limits rather than textbook models.. It may not suit: you'll likely put it down when you expect a unified, repeatable system — the book is interview-driven and rarely turns anecdotes into one-size solutions.; annoying if you prefer tightly argued, data-heavy instruction: many chapters are story-first and light on rigorous, generalizable rules.; not good if you want hands-on exercises or a step-by-step course: no exercises and limited prescriptive guidance..

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Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager: Recommended by 6 People

Name: Market Wizards
Author: Jack D. Schwager

The world's top trader's reveal the secrets of their phenomenal success!How do the world's most successful traders amass tens, hundreds of millions of dollars a year Are they masters of an occult knowledge, lucky winners in a random market lottery, naturalborn virtuosiMozarts of the markets In search of an answer, bestselling author Jack D. Sc...