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When Genius Failed

Roger Lowenstein · 2000 · Level: all levels

The fall of Long-Term Capital Management: Nobel laureates, extreme leverage, and a tail event that ignored the models.

For prop traders: The definitive story of smart people blowing up. The failure mode is the same one that ends evaluations, just scaled.

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Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan · 1994 · Level: all levels

A former CME governor loses everything by degrees, then dissects the psychology of how losses happen: the losing is rarely one bad trade.

For prop traders: Required reading before any evaluation. Every blown account story follows this script.

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Market Wizards

Jack D. Schwager · 1989 · Level: all levels

Interviews with the great traders of the 1980s: Paul Tudor Jones, Ed Seykota, Bruce Kovner and others on entries, exits, and above all risk.

For prop traders: The single best calibration for what real traders obsess over. It is not entries.

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The New Market Wizards

Jack D. Schwager · 1992 · Level: all levels

The second volume: more top traders, including Bill Eckhardt of Turtle fame, on systems, discipline, and losing streaks.

For prop traders: Eckhardt's chapters alone are worth it for anyone trading rules under a drawdown limit.

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Stock Market Wizards

Jack D. Schwager · 2001 · Level: all levels

Schwager turns to stock traders, including momentum and growth investors working methods close to what breakout traders run today.

For prop traders: The interviews closest to the modern momentum playbook.

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