The Day Trader
by Stephen Frey
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Some people risk everything once in their lives.Day traders do it every time they go to work.
The exhilarating and addictive world of point-and-click stock market trading takes on a lethal new dimension in this riveting thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Insider and Trust Fund.
Augustus McKnight wants a better life than the one he’s got: toiling as a sales rep for a paper products company and suspecting his wife, Melanie, of cheating on him. His only solace is show more managing his tiny stock portfolio. . . hoping to strike it rich. Then a shrewd investment actually earns him a windfall. But it’s too late to save his marriage. In a bitter, violent confrontation, Melanie admits to a secret affair and demands a divorce. One day later, she is found brutally murdered. And Augustus is the sole beneficiary of her million-dollar life insurance policy.
Suddenly, Augustus has the better life he’s always longed for–but at a devastating price. To escape his pain, he plunges into the world of the full-time day trader, surrounded by like-minded loners who risk it all to run with the bulls and bears. Yet even as his financial fortunes begin to soar, dark circumstances threaten to send his life into a tailspin. A suspicious insurance investigator is determined to prove that Augustus committed the murder to get the million. And a relentless police detective is watching Augustus’s every move–with the help of a mystery informant.
Augustus’s only ally has is Vincent Carlucci–an old friend and high-living player, who offers Augustus a sweet gig managing the money of some big shots who’ll pay handsome commissions on winning investments. But when the deal is sealed with a night on the town at an exclusive after-hours club, Augustus stumbles on the first of many shocking revelations about the events that have rocked his world–and discovers he is both a pawn in a complex game of manipulation and betrayal . . . and the target of a twisted quest for revenge.
The Day Trader is as thrilling–and terrifying–as gambling on a hot stock in this lightning-fast world where fortunes are made or lost at the touch of a button, where being rich means being ruthless, and where quick wits and killer instinct make the difference between success and slaughter. show less
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I was entertained reading The Day Trader, but I was disappointed because so little of the plot was spent on actual day trading - although I did not really realize the dearth of day trading until I had finished the book.
The plot is not complex, but unlike some other reviewers, I was not offended by Stephen Frey's writing style. The lack of detail regarding a particular trade (there are only a couple transactions) intrigued me as I expected the secret to that success to be revealed later.
I would like to read a fast paced novel about a day trader that detailed days of success and days of losses and frustration. The Day Trader is not that novel. However, it is entertaining and worth reading for that purpose.
The plot is not complex, but unlike some other reviewers, I was not offended by Stephen Frey's writing style. The lack of detail regarding a particular trade (there are only a couple transactions) intrigued me as I expected the secret to that success to be revealed later.
I would like to read a fast paced novel about a day trader that detailed days of success and days of losses and frustration. The Day Trader is not that novel. However, it is entertaining and worth reading for that purpose.
I almost didn't finish this one. The story was pretty weak. The main character was a confounding mix of contradictions. How are you smart enough to investigate the day trading company you work for and your coworkers, but too dumb to know that your best friend is in the mob and your wife was a stripper for a high end nightclub before she was murdered?
The writing was stilted as well. Where some authors are able to weave character's actions and dialogue seamlessly, Frey's dialogue and character behavior seemed like two wholly separate entities. The character did this and then this. Then the character said this (and the dialogue didn't sound the way people really talk).
Overall, the story seemed forced.
The writing was stilted as well. Where some authors are able to weave character's actions and dialogue seamlessly, Frey's dialogue and character behavior seemed like two wholly separate entities. The character did this and then this. Then the character said this (and the dialogue didn't sound the way people really talk).
Overall, the story seemed forced.
No the usual good novel by Frey. A lot of shaky situation which I found hard to swallow, for the most part. Still, Frey is a good enough writer that he can even make this novel readable.
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Stephen Frey is a best-selling author of novels set in the financial world. He received a BS and an MBA from the University of Virginia. Frey started out his career working in mergers and acquisitions at JP Morgan and served as a vice president of corporate finance at an international bank headquartered in Manhattan. Frey's first books were all show more standalone stories. It was with the publication of The Chairman in which he introduced the character Christian Gillette that Stephen Frey began writing a series with the same character. He published four books about Gillette and his ties to the private equity firm of Everest Capital. His novels include The Takeover, The Inner Sanctum, Absolute Proof, The Day Trader, The Fourth Order, Forced Out, Hell's Gate, and Heaven's Fury. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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