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This Book Will Change the
Way You Think About Trading…
Its Purpose?
10 Elite Traders.
125 Years of Mastery.
500 Pages of
Lessons, Practices
and Original Stories
For You To Become the Trader
You Always Wanted To Be.
This was a Labour Of Love... and of Need:
We’ve been writing the trading book we always wanted to read.
And will continue to read.
But we have a bee in our bonnet! Rarely do we get the chance to tell our own stories as Prop Traders and tell it well: to reject clickbait and redundant cookie cutter strategies to satisfy the lizard brain.
But to understand where the successful professional of today is going.
And for you to learn how to navigate tomorrow.
Can we?
Capture the raw experiences, hard-earned lessons, and enduring wisdom of elite, sustainable traders—transforming a book into timeless technology?
Create an indispensable companion for the traders of tomorrow to navigate the market’s forever changing landscape?
Preserve for the next generation?
Redefine professional trading literature—raising the standard for today’s traders and setting the bar for tomorrow’s?
What Materialised is Best Described By
Our Book's Manifesto:
Our Book's Manifesto:
Dear Practitioner,
In 2015 the discretionary human trader was pronounced dead. And the
machine triumphant. Yet here unfolds another story:
THE CAREERS OF TEN
PROPRIETARY FUTURES
TRADERS OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS.
From AXIA’s trading floors emerged the news trading savant Warrior—the precision-perfect Razor—the technically driven Engineer, alongside The Adventurer, The Collector, The Student, The Godfather, The Hero, The Voyager, and The Sphinx. All seven to eight-figure traders whose journeys reveal the power and permanence of the human market navigator.
Distilled from eighty hours of conversations with these traders, this work uncovers the hidden forces that forge or break careers: the counterintuitive pitfalls, the antagonisms of learning and performing, the profound impact of debriefing and journaling, the unstoppable power of the slow-brew trader. Within lies their tactical arsenal: macroeconomic news and technical trading, the Market Profile—all converging at the trader’s true north: order flow, navigated through the price ladder.
To The Curious, The Novices & The Veterans:
Hold this Companion to navigate a landscape where Change is the only constant. Find truths in contradiction, ideas in antagonisms, progress from frustrations.
Anchored by one immutable principle:
Permanence is Permanent Recreation.
THIS CENTURY IS YOURS.
What's Inside?
10
Careers of 7-to-8 Figure Active Prop Traders.
20+
Exclusive, Detailed & Distinct Trading Stories & Analysis.
30+
Concepts, Principles, Heuristics.
125
Years of Cumulative Trading Experience.
140,000
Words.
∞
Personal Reflections You Will Draw at the Right Time to Recreate Your Trading.
List of Chapters:
Introduction: The Trader is Dead. Long Live The Trader!
incl. Where we have come from and where we are about to go. Why meta-game. Why meta-learning.
Chapter 1: The Trading Desks
incl. A Lay Of The Land, It’s Players and A Firm Wide Bet on the Brexit Referendum.
Chapter 2: The Razor
incl. Multi-seven figure drama. Raw fundamentals. Pattern vs Strategy. Uncanny consistency.
Chapter 3: The Collector
incl. Trader’s resource dilemma. The “Extended Mind”. The trading toolbox. Industry death. Hard edge, soft edge.
Chapter 4: The Adventurer
incl. Perception, Variance & Trade Sizing, Talent. Obsession vs means to an end.
Chapter 5: The Warrior Part I
incl. More seven-figure intra-day drama. Macro-news & order flow. Tactics. Cash Flow vs Wealth Building. Edge evolution. Pushing career boundaries as eight-figure trader.
Chapter 6: The Warrior Part II
incl. Human vs Machine trading future. The human advantage. Central bank and geopolitical trades. Worldbuilding.
Chapter 7: The Student
incl. Power of Journalling. Learning vs Performing. Process not Talent. Action & Reflection. Spread to Outright trading evolution.
Chapter 8: The Godfather
incl. 3x Career reinvention over two decades. Impact of meta-game. Perspective shift.
Chapter 9: The Engineer Part I
incl. A seven-figure intra-day ‘technical’ trade. Market Profile. Framework necessities. Trade sense.
Chapter 10: The Engineer Part II
incl. A slow-brew trader. Iteration as a path to quality. Debriefing. ‘Background’ process of eight-figure trader
Chapter 11: The Hero
incl. Reflections of a young trader following deep loss. Market profile as long-term order flow. Success and failure ‘lag effect’. Experience of increasing size.
Chapter 12: The Voyager
incl. Evaluating the book’s principles on career development. Power of Environment. Burdens of Strategy.
Chapter 13: The Sphinx
incl. A decade long path to reach consistent profitability. Simplifying the domain. The nature of the market: complexity, reflexivity.
Epilogue
Revisiting each trader, meta-learning. The nature of our domain.
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About The Authors:
Bogdan Stoichescu honed his expertise as a proprietary futures trader at Axia Futures, where he developed deep insights into market dynamics and professional trading. Now, as the founder of Asymmetrist, he crafts creative non-fiction that reveals the financial markets through his unique approach that combines precise market knowledge with storytelling, bringing this same narrative power to Traders of Our Time.
Alex Haywood has spent twenty years at the forefront of proprietary trading, shaping the industry’s evolution. As co-founder of Axia Futures, he has been instrumental in developing and mentoring its most successful traders. His deep understanding of market dynamics and trading psychology, with his vision for digital knowledge-sharing, has redefined how expertise evolves. In Traders of Our Time, his focus on human creativity and high-performance practices reveals how discretionary trading thrives in an automated world.
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