Author: Christian

Sorry folks for not blogging sooner. I have some insights to the market, but right now I am recovering from a vicious bout of food poisoning. In the past six years I have had four food poisoning’s and three times it was from sandwiches that I bought while driving. You would think it is a problem specific to a store or country. Nope, not at all, I bought bad sandwich’s in Canada, Austria, and Germany. What was common between them all? It was the meat that went bad. (Go vegans go?)

Ok to the topic, and the book review of When Genius Failed. I was recommended this book on CNBC Power Lunch Europe by a professional trader when I asked the question, “I understand the theory behind options, pricing, hedging, Greeks, and have read the classics like Hull, but I am wondering what books I should read to implement a hedging strategy as I do not have access to professional traders?” The trader’s answer was interesting in that he said, “What you need is experience and therefore the books you should buy are Hedge Hogging (which I read), Liars Poker, or When Genius Failed.

I am going to review the two books; Profit From Uranium and Profit from China. I want to structure my review in three parts, initial, reading it, and digested the information.

Initial: When I first received the books I looked at them and thought, huh that’s it! Fifty pages and about a third are “don’t do this or that.” Let me say that I was a bit disappointed and had some very low expectations. But I guess one should never judge a book by its cover, or page count. 😉