Trading Up by Nancy Goldstone

Trading Up

One Woman’s Success in the Multi-Billion Trading Jungle

by Nancy Goldstone

Sidgwick & Jackson, 1988, [First Edition] [Review Copy], ISBN 0283995963, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, ‘Review Copy’ information slip attached to front endpaper, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, bumping, creasing and chipping to edges and corners, red sticker to front (see photographs)

“Nancy Goldstone was 27, when, with just six weeks’ experience, she was asked by a major bank to head its Options Trading Department.  Her story is an inspiration to any woman who doubts for a moment whether she can succeed in a traditional business world.  It is also a page turning account of the staggering behaviours of very senior and apparently responsible people within a large financial institution.
High risk deal-making, Grand Guignol back-stabbing, touching loyalty, barefaced mendacity, breathtaking incompetence, and brilliant tactical manoeuvrings all feature hugely in this revealing account of how the mega millions are lost and won.  Nancy Goldstone’s book is so spellbinding, it is easy to forget that she has written only the unembroidered truth.
She made mistakes, learned fast, operated on an international scale, including setting up a London office, and soon the biggest and best firms were offering her vey fat inducements to join them.  She miraculously found her way around the financial, organisational and very personal minefields which threatened to destroy her and her marriage.  No-one in a fast moving business today could read this book without learning deeply and being enormously entertained.”