Traders' Tales: A Chronicle of Wall Street Myths, Legends, and Outright Lies (Revised)

This book is a rich collection of delicious Wall Street stories that will capture the imagination of everyone from Wall Street to Main Street. It is as much about the character of Wall Street as it is about the characters on Wall Street. Trader's Tales is where Liar's Poker meets Aesop's Fables. It's a once-in-a-lifetime collection of stories, secrets, myths and insider jokes--as told to Insana by the legends themselves. You'll discover the secrets of soothsayers like Arch Crawford and female Wall Street pioneers such as Muriel Siebert. Find out how a cockroach almost made a trading floor clerk $2,500 and enjoy dozens more truly memorable tales of the wheelers and dealers who enliven the cavernous confines of the world's most famous street.