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Adventures of a Currency Trader: A Fable about Trading, Courage, and Doing the Right Thing Hardcover – February 1, 2007

by Rob Booker (Author)
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
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"A truly easy, unique, and enjoyable read! Rob has done it once again to teach us in the funniest way possible how not to make the most common trading mistakes. If you are tired of reading how-to books, this is perfect for you. I highly recommend this book to all traders. Everyone will learn something about themselves by reading this book."
--Kathy Lien, author, Day Trading the Currency Market, and Chief Strategist, www.dailyfx.com

"Adventures of a Currency Trader is a must read for anyone who has ever traded or is thinking about trading in the Forex markets. Rob Booker has a unique way of taking years of market knowledge and transforming it into an educational and entertaining experience. It has quickly become a cult classic in my trading library!"
--H. Jack Bouroudjian, Principal, Brewer Investment Group

"Brilliant! Rob's humor and humanity shine through in this parable about trading and life. Filled with wisdom and wit, it's an exhilarating rollercoaster ride through the peaks and valleys of the learning curve, with many valuable lessons learned along the way."
--Ed Ponsi, President, FXEducator.com

"Rob's fable of everyman 'Harry Banes' is destined to become a trading classic. This is both the missing piece and the foundation that comes before the strategies and methodologies. The search for the Holy Grail begins and ends in the heart and mind. The journey is authentic and real and if you're willing to take it with Rob, you will be rewarded in the end. Seldom has psychology and wisdom been so entertaining!"
--Raghee Horner, trader and author of Forex Trading for Maximum Profit and Days of Forex Trading

"In a series of insightful and entertaining vignettes, Rob Booker teaches both the novice and the experienced trader some hard won truths about the currency market. It's a must read book written by a guy who survived the trenches and went on to prosper in the biggest and most competitive financial market in the world."
--Boris Schlossberg, Senior Currency Strategist, Forex Capital Markets LLC, and author of Technical Analysis of the Currency Market

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    Wiley
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    February 1, 2007
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  6. ISBN-10
    9780470049488
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"...you will find this book riveting and occasionally amusing, but nothing less than eye-opening." (Securities & Investment review, June 2007)

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Let author Rob Booker introduce you to Harry Banes. Harry represents every trader. He doesn't start trading with a huge amount of money, and his ambition is larger than his ability. His financial situation and life as a new trader may be difficult, but his determination allows him to prevail in Adventures of a Currency Trader. ?

Funny, entertaining, and, above all, educational, Adventures of a Currency Trader demonstrates exactly what it takes to capitalize on today's volatile and potentially profitable foreign exchange markets. Told through the eyes of a fictional character by the name of Harry Banes--an aspiring trader who works as a filing clerk in a busy New York law firm--Adventures of a Currency Trader explains in a powerful and compelling manner how you can implement a consistent trading approach in the foreign currency market and become a financially independent currency trader in the process.

There's a little bit of each of us in Harry Banes, and as the story progresses, you'll discover how to turn the lessons outlined in this book into potentially profitable trades. Harry admits early on that he's a rookie trader, which won't adequately prepare you for how bad he really is. But we'll stand by him as he picks himself up from early disappointments and begins to implement the wise counsel of a veteran trader--Harvey Winklestein--who agrees to mentor him.

From Harry's experiences, you'll learn how to recover from disastrous losses, set yourself up as a full-time trader, and talk to loved ones about what you're doing. But that's not all. Through Harry's numerous journeys, you'll also discover how to create reliable charts, perform the proper type of analysis, and make effective trades. Most importantly, you'll learn how to generate substantial profits--and keep them.

Both technical and motivational in nature, Adventures of a Currency Trader is a unique guide to trading that will provide you with a solid foundation in this field. Filled with hard-won wisdom borne of real trading experiences, Adventures of a Currency Trader is destined to become a classic of trading literature.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0470049480
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wiley; First Edition (February 1, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780470049488
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0470049488
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.38 x 0.95 x 9.08 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Elvis Lives
5.0 out of 5 stars a recommended textbook in novel form
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2010
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I saw this book in the store and couldn't put it down, so I came here to Amazon where I found it at a better price. At the time I had big dreams of trying to make some money on currency trading. The results are predictably the opposite in an embarressing way after. I got rid of all my currency trading books immediately ... except ... I wasn't done reading this one. Even though I'd just cleared out half my bank account (and didn't have a job to replenish it) I wanted to finish this book. It's that interesting.

It's a textbook in currency trading in novel form. I wouldn't recommend following it as a textbook. I believe it's a bit more hopeful with it's happy ending than reality dictates and you've got characters betting thousands of dollars in a single bid which most of us should know better. But, if you can dig into the essence of what's it's saying this can be a far more interesting textbook than you'll have ever read before.

I highly recommend this book. Though, don't except it'll make you rich.

On a purely literary side. Why hadn't I thought of doing something like this? It's that simple of an idea. Not difficult to read either and the characters seem real (and probably are).
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D. Wittaker
4.0 out of 5 stars Worthwhile read
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2008
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It shows various perspectives of various types of traders
It gives a look into the professional (institutional) world
It mimics your own experience (at least for me to some extent)
It helps you to embrace and conquer your own deficiencies.

The book was great. I was totally hooked into it, especially seeing that they gave visual examples, and explained all sorts of stuff. Hell, the book is even great for persons who know nothing about trading, but would just like some insight into the world of trading.

Going to look for another Rob Booker book now.
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Tommy Hiett
5.0 out of 5 stars A trading book for everyone!
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2007
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You have heard the cliche so many times that I hesitate to use it, however here goes anyway--"you won't be able to put this book down!"

This is a book for traders, a book for new and experienced traders, a book for wives and friends of traders, a book for people thinking about trading and a book for all teenagers on their summer vacations so that their parents can keep them out of them malls.

The great thing about this book is that somehow Rob intertwines trading discipline and strategy with a humorous story about a trader who starts off with stars in his eyes and ends up with a realistic vision of trading success.

I already know that Rob is a great trader, however he is great writer too and throughly engages all of your senses in this book about Harry Banes. No matter what your level of skill and interest in trading, Harry has a message for all readers of this fantastic book. I have been trading for several years and still grabbed some great ideas from this book. Well worth your time!
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The Cat
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a good book to read
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2007
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Rob Booker has done a great job in writing this book. I think the story of Harry Banes is a very common story for most new traders. We all have dreams to make it in the FOREX, but we do not know how easy or difficult this could be. There are a lot of messages and experiences being shared in this book. This book has strategies, but they are not being displayed with the tittle strategy 1, 2, etc. The way to find them is by reading the book page by page. Discipline, team work, constant preparation, persistence, some basic technical analysis, and trading ideas are found in this book. I find "discipline" as one of the ingredients many new traders do not want to take and follow it. There are a lot of truths about how we all behave when we trade.

As long as, I can learn something from a book I think the author deserves my comment. Finally, if you want to learn FOREX, we all need to study, and practice all the time. To be successful at FOREX, this should be taken as a job.
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SLyng1
1.0 out of 5 stars Even Amateurs should look elsewhere...
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2010
I will have to disagree with the enthusiastic reviews of this book by various users. I suppose I'm not the target audience of this book because I've been trading currency in one form or another for about 9yrs now and I just read the book yesterday. So being a seasoned trader, I came to the book with different experiences than a total newbie.

That being said, *if* I could go back to my newbie self and recommend books for me to read, this would not be one of them. First off, the title of the book is misleading: Adventure? There is no adventure in this book. If you want adventure, read "Investment Biker" or "Adventure Capitalist" by Jim Rogers. If you want a pseudo-adventure with a real character - read "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" by Edwin Lefevre. Reminiscences is a great book about a true trading legend, this book is about a guy in an office who wants to trade for a living. It goes on about how he blows through two accounts and meets various mentors (more on that later) that get him on the right path. There is very little that is exciting about any of the events that happen within the book - i.e. there is no adventure here.

You should also understand that this book is a parable/fable - so it reads as a strange combination of personal journey and enlightenment event. It's somewhat bizarre. Some of the characters seem to know things about the protagonist that are completely unbelievable. For example, in the book, a big-shot trader of a multi-billion dollar trading firm knows that a random law clerk (the main character) just lost $5,000 using a retail forex account. You're expected to believe that an unemployed law clerk can sneak into a trading firm and get a trading mentor. (Incidentally, the author's adulation of "mentors" is not the least bit suspicious considering he seems to run some sort of mentoring business on the side). All of these logical leaps and storytelling lapses you're expected to excuse because the book is a parable.

The main character himself is not really sympathetic or believable. We are told that he funds his forex account with his credit card but that he and his wife are maxed out on their 6 credit cards. Yet somehow, miraculously, at some point later in the book, he has something like $30,000 in "savings" that he can draw upon. His wife is pregnant with his fourth child at the same time that he quits his job and decides to become a trader (despite having shown no talent for it and having no experience doing it). We are supposed to have sympathy for this guy, who decides he doesn't need health insurance while having a pregnant wife and no money? In general, the character himself makes so many poor decisions it lessens the impact the author is trying to achieve. It's quite obvious the author wants to point out the many pitfalls of trading currencies (i.e. don't use too much leverage, don't gamble with money you can't afford to lose, etc etc) but he makes these points in such a heavy-handed manner that it's nearly impossible to take the protagonist seriously.

I got through over 2/3 of the book before I ever saw the words "stop-loss". But of course by the time the reader learns about what a stop-loss is, the protagonist is already hobnobbing with multi-billion dollar hedge fund managers (explaining to them what the carry trade is - again very believable stuff here). Keep in mind, he's meeting all these people before he actually knows how to trade. A few paragraphs later we find out that our protagonist doesn't know how to use spreadsheets. Risk management is sort of an afterthought in this book. Again, we get through 2/3 of the book before we hear about what an acceptable drawdown is - Apparently that number is 25% (in a day? in a week? The author never specifies). He dismisses 10% out of hand without giving any explanation, but I'll tell you, any trader that would be OK losing 10% of his entire account in a day is either a) not a very good trader or b) a maniac. I simply think this is bad advice - especially for rank beginners which are who this book is intended for.

Putting aside the thin "plot", the style of the writing itself is repetitive and boring. Many sections are structured as interviews. The dialogue is clunky & unnatural. I've already mentioned that the situations themselves are totally unrealistic but the way these characters interact with each other is sometimes just plain strange.

At the end of the day, if the target audience is supposed to be newbies, let me give you some free advice:

1) Start trading with a demo account - don't risk real money until you understand the mechanics of trading and can prove that you can make money on the demo platform
2) As soon as you feel comfortable, fund a small account where you can trade micro lots and use no more than 2-1 leverage until you are consistently profitable
3) Never play with money you can't afford to lose - This is a cardinal rule (although the author makes the rather dubious argument that there is no such thing as money you can't afford to lose).
4) ALWAYS use a Stop-Loss! (this should actually be rule number one)
5) Do your homework and find/create a system that works for you - There are no free lunches

For the amount of money this book costs, you could buy 3 very good trading books or buy 5-7 used books.

Final verdict: 1.5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book. If you are thinking of trading read this book befor you place you first trade.
Reviewed in Canada on December 30, 2019
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I am just starting out. The information in this book not only answered questions I had been unable to find the answers to it stopped me from making some big mistakes. The story format made it really easy to read and made it relatable.
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OZA
5.0 out of 5 stars superoriginal
Reviewed in Spain on October 7, 2013
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Una forma única que nos hace sentirnos identificados a todos los que conocemos y perseguimos el sueño de vivir del forex
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Courtney
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Australia on November 21, 2014
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Great read I swear I was reading about myself.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 面白いです！
Reviewed in Japan on August 14, 2007
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FXのトレードを始めて、損失を出し、行き詰っていたときに、Rob Bookerを知り、この本を知りました。翻訳版は来年(2008年）に出版されると知っていましたが、それまで待てず、この英語の本を注文しました。最初本を開いたときは、字が細かく、難しそうに見えたので、即返品か？とも一瞬思いましたが、ちょっとさわりだけでも読んでみようと読み始めたら、中学程度のボキャブラリーしかない私でも、どんどん読み進められるほどの面白さでした。辞書を引く必要はありません。知らない単語があっても、文章全体で意味は大体わかりました。とにかく内容が面白いので、どんどん惹きつけられて、一気に読んでしまいました。
普通のサラリーマンがある日コマーシャルの宣伝に乗せられてFXトレードで大もうけしようと始めるのですが、いきなり口座の全額を失うというロスをしてしまう。会社もクビになり、絶体絶命の主人公が、師匠やいろいろな人との出会い、紆余曲折を経て、勝つトレーダーになるまでの物語。
私もしばらく取引は中止して、テストを積み重ねていこうと思いました。
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Duncan Fallow
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 3, 2020
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Bought on recommendation from another author - a very interesting read!
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