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The trading game

LSE alumnus, Gary Stevenson discusses his new book, The Trading Game: A Confession.
LSE alumnus, Gary Stevenson discusses his new book, The Trading Game: A Confession.
Thursday 21 March 2024 | 1 hour 27 minutes 34 seconds

Whilst studying at LSE, Gary 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.

But what happens when winning starts to feel like losing? Would you stick, or quit? Even if it meant risking everything? Gary's book is an outrageous, unvarnished, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world - from someone who survived the game and then blew it all wide open.