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This personal narrative tells how a dyslexic, half-blind boy from a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood became one of the most successful traders on the planet. He did this by figuring out life and applying that knowledge to investing. The author weaves life lessons with advice on being a trader

Foreword by Michael Covel, author of Trend Following and TurtleTrader -- Introduction: get in the game -- Know who you are: how I learned from failure -- Find the game you love: my education as a trader -- Working the odds: your time and opportunity horizon -- Trend following: cut your losses and let your winners run -- How to lose money, including how I lost millions -- Making Mint: know where you are playing the game -- How my philosophy can work for you: applications of the rule -- And the philosophy continues to work: the next generation -- Conversations with a young trader, with Kolade Oluwole -- You have choices: persistence pays dividends