SUMMARY:
I am writing a book based on interviews with successful full-time (or largely full-time) private investors and traders. I am posting here to try to attract more interviewees. If you think you might be prepared to be interviewed, please reply below or PM me.
DETAILS:
This is not a ‘how-to’ book or a ‘get-rich-quick’ book, but more of a journalistic profile of the working methods and lifestyles of a few full-time investors. Analogies among books currently in print might be Jack Schwager’s Market Wizards books, or John Train’s Money Masters books, but my book is about private traders and investors rather than pros.
Another difference from Market Wizards and Money Masters is that in my book all interviewees are anonymised. Each interviewee is identified by a single (disguised) name (‘Hugh’, ‘Neil’, ‘Janet’, etc). Home towns, previous careers, family details and other information are also changed or left vague. Hence the identity of interviewees should be disguised from almost all readers.
The interviewees need to be people who spend much of their time on trading or investment, and have done so for at least say 5 years. Long-term survival is my criterion for success - you don’t have to be fantastically wealthy or well-known. People who make a modest living quietly doing their own thing are especially interesting. The spirit of the book is more about trading as a means of independence and freedom, rather than ostentatious wealth.
I don’t need (and won’t ask for) any detailed information about portfolio size, investment returns or other personal financial details. The criterion for inclusion is simply that interviewees claim (in a way which I find reasonably credible) to make a living from their strategies. It doesn’t matter what the strategy is – fundamental stockpicking, trend-following,charts, stat arb, other quant, scalping, whatever – it’s all good - I need a range of successful strategies to make the book interesting.
There is a fuller description of the book here
http://tinyurl.com/mutfd9
And a sample chapter on the first interviewee ‘Hugh’ is here
http://tinyurl.com/lqzwyk
I am not a journalist, I am a full-time investor myself, and have been for the past ten years (mainly a smallcap fundamental stockpicker, that’s why you don’t see me much at T2W). So hopefully the interview will be more of a fun discussion, rather than a series of uninformed standard questions.
If you want to know more, please reply below or PM me.
I am writing a book based on interviews with successful full-time (or largely full-time) private investors and traders. I am posting here to try to attract more interviewees. If you think you might be prepared to be interviewed, please reply below or PM me.
DETAILS:
This is not a ‘how-to’ book or a ‘get-rich-quick’ book, but more of a journalistic profile of the working methods and lifestyles of a few full-time investors. Analogies among books currently in print might be Jack Schwager’s Market Wizards books, or John Train’s Money Masters books, but my book is about private traders and investors rather than pros.
Another difference from Market Wizards and Money Masters is that in my book all interviewees are anonymised. Each interviewee is identified by a single (disguised) name (‘Hugh’, ‘Neil’, ‘Janet’, etc). Home towns, previous careers, family details and other information are also changed or left vague. Hence the identity of interviewees should be disguised from almost all readers.
The interviewees need to be people who spend much of their time on trading or investment, and have done so for at least say 5 years. Long-term survival is my criterion for success - you don’t have to be fantastically wealthy or well-known. People who make a modest living quietly doing their own thing are especially interesting. The spirit of the book is more about trading as a means of independence and freedom, rather than ostentatious wealth.
I don’t need (and won’t ask for) any detailed information about portfolio size, investment returns or other personal financial details. The criterion for inclusion is simply that interviewees claim (in a way which I find reasonably credible) to make a living from their strategies. It doesn’t matter what the strategy is – fundamental stockpicking, trend-following,charts, stat arb, other quant, scalping, whatever – it’s all good - I need a range of successful strategies to make the book interesting.
There is a fuller description of the book here
http://tinyurl.com/mutfd9
And a sample chapter on the first interviewee ‘Hugh’ is here
http://tinyurl.com/lqzwyk
I am not a journalist, I am a full-time investor myself, and have been for the past ten years (mainly a smallcap fundamental stockpicker, that’s why you don’t see me much at T2W). So hopefully the interview will be more of a fun discussion, rather than a series of uninformed standard questions.
If you want to know more, please reply below or PM me.
