Ebook: Trading Sardines - Lessons in the Markets from a Lifelong Trader

Trading Sardines celebrates grit and resilience in the financial markets.
It is a hilarious, honest, and poignant account of the evolution of a professional trader over nearly four decades. From the raucous trading floors of the early eighties to the days of giant server racks thirty years later, the reader takes a chronological trip through the markets, trading strategies, and unimaginable events, watching how one woman responds with unblinking honesty.
Linda Raschke shares a lifetime of market lessons while highlighting the tension between luck, risk, and passion. Along the way, she shows that perseverance can overcome the most inconceivable challenges, both in life and in trading. Her stories, documented with charts and photos, will keep you captivated and prove that humor may just be the key ingredient for survival. You won’t hear these types of tales anywhere else–this is the REAL world of trading.
This book will motivate every trader, no matter the level of proficiency and experience. Linda’s success is testimony that you don’t have to be perfect, you just have to stay in the game.

About the Author
Linda Bradford Raschke (born 1959) is an American trader, investor and hedge fund manager. She held memberships on the Pacific Stock Exchange and the Philadelphia Stock Exchange in the early eighties before founding LBRGRoup, a CTA (Commodity Trading Advisor).
She started several successful hedge funds, both onshore and offshore, and rose to the top of the ranks in hedge fund performance. She is mentioned in many trading books, including Jack Schwager’s New Market Wizards. She lives in Florida and Illinois with her husband Damon, and her horses, where she continues to actively trade and invest.
She holds a BA in Economics and in Music Composition from Occidental College (1980).