Imprint: No Exit Press
Category: Thriller / suspense
[The Armageddon Trade] captures the nature of the traders behind the foolishness and greed stalking the financial markets’ – Alex Brummer, City Editor, Daily Mail.
Jim is the cockney boy wonder who can read stock charts like 50 ft road signs. His uncanny talent has taken him from tea boy to trading superstar. Is he a genius, or a fluke? He doesn’t know.
The mysterious Max Davas, emperor of trading, makes billions dealing US Treasuries using more computing firepower than NASA. – but now his models are telling him that something is about to go catastrophically wrong.
The same trading system that has made him one of the richest and most powerful men in the world is telling him that in a year’s time, Gold will be at $0 an ounce, so will Oil, so will Microsoft and the dollar won’t be trading at all. The Euro, the Pound, the Yen, sugar, wheat, coffee…all will fall down to zero.
But are predictions fate? Or does the cockney kid hold the key to the Armageddon trade?
Category: Thriller / suspense
RRP: £18.99
ISBN: 9781842432976
Published: January 8, 2009
Extent: 352 pages
RRP: £10.99
ISBN: 9781842432983
Published: January 8, 2009
Extent: 348 pages
RRP: £4.99
ISBN: 9781842434581
Published: January 2, 2011
[The Armageddon Trade] captures the nature of the traders behind the foolishness and greed stalking the financial markets' - Alex Brummer, City Editor, Daily Mail.
Jim is the cockney boy wonder who can read stock charts like 50 ft road signs. His uncanny talent has taken him from tea boy to trading superstar. Is he a genius, or a fluke? He doesn't know.
The mysterious Max Davas, emperor of trading, makes billions dealing US Treasuries using more computing firepower than NASA. - but now his models are telling him that something is about to go catastrophically wrong.
The same trading system that has made him one of the richest and most powerful men in the world is telling him that in a year's time, Gold will be at $0 an ounce, so will Oil, so will Microsoft and the dollar won't be trading at all. The Euro, the Pound, the Yen, sugar, wheat, coffee...all will fall down to zero.
But are predictions fate? Or does the cockney kid hold the key to the Armageddon trade?
"The Armageddon Trade" was written by Clem Chambers.
The CEO of Europe's number one stocks and shares website, ADVFN (www.advfn.com), Clem Chambers has written investment columns for Wired Magazine, The Business, The Daily Telegraph and The Scotsman and has appeared on Sky News, CNBC and the BBC...