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Description of The Armageddon Trade

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?

Title Information

ISBN:

9781842432976

Pages:

352 pages

Format:

Hardback

Product Code:

305664

Publisher:

No Exit Press

Published:

25/03/2009

Press and Industry Reviews

'[The Armageddon Trade] captures the nature of the traders behind the foolishness and greed stalking the financial markets' - Alex Brummer, City Editor, Daily Mail


'Like a digital-age John le Carré, Clem Chambers spins a gripping tale of terrorist apocalypse informed by a deep understanding of financial markets and computer technology' - Ted Greenwald, Senior Editor, Wired Magazine

'At last, a book where the words finance and thriller truly belong in the same sentence' - Steve Eckett, former Barings trader and co-founder of Global Investor Bookshops and Harriman House

'Hit the panic button! A spell-binding look, by a market master, at what happens when professional money meets international terrorism. On the outcome of this trading hangs billions of dollars - and millions of lives.' - Richard L. Hudson, Former Editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe, author of The Misbehaviour of Markets

'More shocking than a squirt of lemon juice in the eye' - Sally Nicoll, author of the bestselling spread-betting diary, 'Bets and the City'

'With uncanny accuracy, Chambers takes you into the mind of the young-gun bank traders. He's been there and done that himself. But disturbingly, he also takes you into the mind of the fanatical terrorist. Whoa!' - Paul Wilmott, the world's foremost quant and founder of Wilmott.com

'Terrifying' - Geoff Cutmore, CNBC Anchor

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About Clem Chambers

Clem Chambers is CEO of ADVFN (www.advfn.com), Europe's number one stocks and shares Web site. He has written investment columns for Wired Magazine, which described him as a 'Market Maven'; The Business, The Daily Telegraph and The Scotsman and broadcasts on investment matters for channels including SKY News, CNBC and the BBC. This is his first novel.