The Trading Game

Resumen del libro

An outrageous, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world - from someone who survived the trading game and then blew it all wide open'If you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around?Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken footballs on the streets of East London in the shadow of Canary Wharf's skyscrapers, Gary wanted something better. Something a whole lot bigger. Then he won a competition run by a bank: 'The Trading Game'.

The prize: a golden ticket to a new life, as the youngest trader in the whole city. A place where you could make more money than you'd ever imagined. Where your colleagues are dysfunctional maths geniuses, overfed public schoolboys and borderline psychopaths, yet they start to feel like family.

Where soon you're the bank's most profitable trader, dealing in nearly a trillion dollars. A day. Where you dream of numbers in your sleep - and then stop sleeping at all.

But what happens when winning starts to feel like losing? When the easiest way to make money is to bet on millions becoming poorer and poorer - and, as the economy starts slipping off a precipice, your own sanity starts slipping with it? You want to stop, but you can't. Because nobody ever leaves. Would you stick, or quit? Even if it meant risking everything?

Biografía del autor

Gary Stevenson creció en Ilford, Londres, en el seno de una familia humilde. Gracias a su talento para las matemáticas, logró una beca en la prestigiosa London School of Economics y posteriormente pasó a trabajar como operador en Citybank. En pocos años se hizo millonario, pero tras ver las consecuencias de la actividad de los bancos en la vida de las personas, abandonó su carrera de trader y decidió convertirse en activista contra la desigualdad. Desde entonces ha cursado un máster en Oxford, ha participado en un think tank con varios expertos en economía y ha fundado un canal de YouTube, garyseconomics, en el que divulga sobre la economía del mundo real. Aparece con frecuencia en televisión y radio y ha escrito para The Guardian y OpenDemocracy, entre otros.