Wiley; 1 edition (February 7, 2012)
512 pages
As a trader, this is one of those books that every trader will wish they had read sooner. Quite simply, if you want trading advice from some of the best in the world, this is the book to read. Do not miss the wisdom found here.
Two of my favorite quotes:
What advice would you give the novice trader? First, I would say that risk management is the most important thing to be well understood. Undertrade, undertrade, undertrade is my second piece of advice. Whatever you think your position ought to be, cut it at least in half. My experience with novice traders is that they trade three to five times too big. They are taking 5 to 10 percent risks on a trade when they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks.
What makes this business so fabulous is that, while you may not know what will happen tomorrow, you can have a very good idea what will happen over the long run. The insurance business provides a perfect analogy. Take one sixty-year-old guy and you have absolutely no idea what the odds are that he will be alive one year later. However, if you take 100,000 sixty-year-olds, you can get an excellent estimate of how many of them will be alive one year later. We do the same thing; we let the law of large numbers work for us. In a sense, we are trading actuaries. -Larry Hite
