In this rags to riches story, Ninette D. Uzan-Nemitz steps off the pages of Playboy into the street fights of the financial markets. She is a Parisian playmate featured in "Women of Wall Street" who parlays her beauty and brains to first become one of the first few female traders. Then she goes on to found the Viking Hedge Fund, where she traded millions of dollars daily for over a decade. To survive the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune she records each small success and major misstep eventually distilling them into rules which become her personal code of conduct.
In the second part of the book, the author gives a course on professional trading and technical analysis, which illustrates the basic principles to generate consistent returns. She also includes more than 50 rules for making money, the key indicators to track and several efficient risk management practices to protect the capital. Since human behavior is always the weakest link in any trading system, she reveals her proven methods for developing psychological discipline and self-control.
Far from being a vain memoir, Reminiscences of a Wall Street Trader reveals the hard won philosophies, strategies and disciplines that anyone can use to begin and win as a Wall Street trader.