Traders of Our Time

12-06-2025
Author(s): Bogdan Stoichescu, Alexander Haywood
Publication Number: ECES-SB328
Issued in: 2025

Overview:

Dear Practitioner,
In 2015 the discretionary human trader was pronounced dead. And the machine triumphant. Yet here unfolds another story:
Distilled from eighty hours of conversations with 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.