★Ｐｌａｙ Ｍｏｎｅｙ Ｌａｕｒａ Ｐｅｄｅｒｓｅｎ 中古良書の出品です。

Pedersen, who in 1984 at age 18 began her Wall Street career as an AMEX options clerk, here attributes her success as an index trader (she became a millionaire by age 22) to her ability to "scream loud, jump high, think fast and count without using her fingers." Along with a hilarious account of her personal adventures, this incisive, anecdotal narrative, written with freelancer Model, affords a front-line view of market operations and what it was like to risk vast sums daily under the physically hazardous conditions of the madhouse options trading floor during the heady days of the "Roaring Eighties." Now a traveling lecturer, Pederson claims that global electronic trading will soon replace floor brokers and traders.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

 

 

Twenty-five-year-old Pedersen here recounts her five years' experience on the American Stock Exchange as an index options trader. By 22 she claims to have been a millionaire. By age 24 she quit because of the wear and tear on her voice and hearing. An example of her rapacious attitude: she crows that at age 13 during a blizzard she sold her own mother 50? canned corn for $3. What else does the reader learn? Not much about actual options trading, but a lot about options traders being prone to the same juvenile pranks ("one favorite pastime was pie throwing") and humor (rubber vomit) as any group. Those who enjoyed Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker ( LJ 9/1/89) might go for this female version. On the whole, though, these "memoirs" are too shallow to concern most readers.
- Alex Wenner, Indiana Univ. Libs., Bloomington
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

 

 

アマゾン評価：★★★★★

 

Hilarious But True Story, Only In America, January 13, 2004

 

I am working my way backward through the Pedersen oeuvre, having just read LAST CALL, BEGINNER'S LUCK, and GOING AWAY PARTY. I thought this was going to be another novel, but SURPRISE, it is an account of Pedersen's adventures going to Wall Street back in 1983, the start of boom times. She was only 18 and coming from a small town in upstate New York, a self-admitted hick, unable to find the stock exchange on her third day of work because it was raining and the flag wasn't flying. The supervisor had never heard THAT excuse before. Anyway, Pedersen is as light-hearted and charming in her nonfiction as in the novels. She doesn't come off as being a child whiz kid, though I imagine you must be pretty smart to do what she did, but credits her phenomenal success more to being in the right place at the right time, getting up early, and loving the work, action, excitement. Her coworkers are unbelievable and highly entertaining in their practical jokes and bizarre priorities. For someone who has lived in Indiana her entire life (me), it was fun to read about leaving home for a big city right after high school graduation, something probably many of us dreamed of doing, but for whatever reason didn't. This book reminded me why American is such a great country -- not so much because a teenage girl of divorced working class parents from a former steel town can strike it rich in just a few years, but because the young woman was able to make the opportunity for herself, no matter what happened after that. Though I'm glad she took her money and ran, and am looking forward to the next novel, HEART'S DESIRE. HOWEVER, if she wants to write another nonfiction book, I'd be happy to go along for the ride. Pedersen has the great comic/storytelling gift of making getting up in the morning into something funny and interesting. I read an essay she wrote about growing up with her mother (a nurse) on the Internet and it is laugh-out-loud funny.

 

Small town girl hits big city, March 4, 2004

 

Loved PLAY MONEY from start to finish. It moves as fast as the trading floor where Pedersen finds herself at the tender age of 18. Newly arrived in the Big Apple she takes life in the fast lanes mostly in stride, along with the crazy antics of her cohorts. These people and situations were made for a sitcom and I can't believe that one hasn't been made of it yet. You'll learn a little about the stock exchange and options trading but not so much that the stories ever get bogged down. A fun read for anyone who has ever been in the biz (I was a currency trader in the 90s) but also if your just looking to cheer along a determined young person trying to pull herself up by the proverbial bootstraps.

 

FAST AND FUNNY, February 10, 2004

 

This is not a financial book, though it tells you just enough to enjoy and understand what's going on. It's much more like LIAR'S POKER in that you get all the funny anecdotes about traders and the fear and greed that drives them. Pedersen is the perfect person to tell the tale, newly arrive on the stock exchange from upstate New York at age 18. My Uncle works on the trading floor of the NYSE and since the advent of cell phones and better computers it's certainly a new era. Pedersen's book is wonderful as a historical account of how it was before all that. And her personal story of moving to the big city from a small town, without much money and only a high school diploma from a public school, and setting out to achieve the American Dream is entertaining as well. And also, I would think, an inspiration to all ambitious young people (seeing as she wasn't even a good math student!). I particularly enjoyed all the bets and contests the guys would start -- as if making and losing millions of dollars every few minutes wasn't enough excitement!

 

 

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