Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street's Champion Trader by Martin Schwartz

Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street's Champion Trader by Martin Schwartz

He has made millions in stocks, options, and futures. He's got nerves of steel and the killer instinct of a jungle cat. He's Wall Street legend Martin "Buzzy" Schwartz, and he is one of America's best traders.Pit Bull is the true story of how he became the best, of the people and the places, the tricks and techniques of the financial world. Born a blue-collar kid with a gambler's nature, Schwartz loves the risk and rewards of trading on a vast scale. He has won the U.S. Trading Championships an astonishing number of times, often amassing more money than all other contestants combined! The night that Operation Desret Storm erupted, as financial markets worldwide went crazy, rising and falling on the fears and rumors surrounding the conflict, Buzzy Schwartz sat in a room, surrounded by his phones and charts, trading bonds until dawn. When he finally emerged into the morning light, he was tired, hungry...and $1.2million richer. An extraordinary story of an extraordinary man,Pit Bull reads like a novel-filled with humorous and commanding insights into the psychology of making money and dazzling stories of fortunes made and lost. And best of all, it's loaded with valuable tips for anyone wishing to become a better trade or investor.

Amy Hempel is the coeditor of Unleashed and the author of Sing to It, The Dog of the Marriage, Tumble Home, At the Gates of the Wild Realm, and Reasons to Live. Her pieces have appeared in publications such as Harper's, Vanity Fair, GQ, Tin House, The Harvard Review, and The Quarterly, and have been anthologized in collections such as Best American Short Stories and The Best Nonrequired Reading. She teaches in Bennington College's Graduate Writing Department and at Stony Brook Southampton. She resides in the vicinity of New York City.