Currency Kings: How Billionaire Traders Made their Fortune Trading Forex and How You Can Too

by Ben Robson

Overview

Win big and win often in the world’s greatest financial market

With $5 trillion traded every day, FX dwarfs all other markets. It’s a tough market to master—but not as tough as people think. Currency Kings provides the keys anyone can use to unlock the enormous potential of FX.

FX guru Ben Robson walks you through the process of 1) developing a sound strategy, 2) creating a competitive edge, 3) scaling your efforts, and 4) managing risk. It’s a simple, commonsense approach. And it works incredibly well. Robson has been using it to drive major profitability from FX for years. Throughout, he analyzes the strategies of the world’s greatest FX traders, including:
• George Soros—perhaps the greatest FX trader ever
• John Henry—the brilliant technical trader and risk manager
• Urs Schwarzenbach—veritable king of options
• Peter Cruddas—a pioneer of retail fx trading
• Jim Simons—who made billions with computers and arbitrage
• Renat Fatkhullin -- mastermind behind Metaquotes trading software

Each of these investors have drawn untold profits through FX trading—and none of their styles is the same. Which goes to show that there is always room for innovation. Currency Kings provides the foundation, you build on it with the right combination of discipline, original thinking, and a powerful will to win.

The behemoth called the FX market awaits. Use this unparalleled investing guide to profit beyond your wildest dreams.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781259863011
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	08/11/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Ben Robson has over 20-years’ experience in the Financial markets in the fields of Fixed Income Currencies and Commodities. After having served as an officer in the British Army’s elite Brigade of Guards, Mr. Robson embarked upon a financial career, firstly as a Repo-Funding analyst at Goldman Sachs International and then as Foreign Exchange dealer at Prudential Bache International, both in the City of London. He subsequently set-up CMC Markets Asia Ltd in Hong Kong, before running MF Global’s Asia Pacific Foreign Exchange and Bullion business. From 2011 to 2015, Mr. Robson created and acted as C.E.O of Fixi PLC’s Singapore and Dubai based proprietary FX and arbitrage businesses.
Robson now works independently in Monaco.

Website: www.fxworldwideonline.com

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction ix

1 The Four Basic Trading Principles 1

2 Global Macro King George Soros 27

3 Technical Trading Genius John Henry 59

4 91 Writing FX Option Strangles Urs Schwarzenbach 91

5 Online Currency Entrepreneurs: How the Early FX Market Makers Grew from Pioneers to Billionaires 123

6 Quant King Jim Simons 161

7 Social Trading and MT4 Renat Fatkhullin 195

8 Tricks and Traps to Avoid When Trading Online Caveat Emptor 227

9 Top Tips to Improve Performance 259

Notes 293

Index 297