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Summary: A quick and enjoyable read with many excellent insights.
Review: "Lessons from the Pit" is a page-turner! It is an honest and easy-to-read account of life in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. What makes it so fascinating is the way Joe and Terry bring characters and scenes to life and use them to show how God worked in Joe's life. No matter what their career, all readers will come away with valuable insights and helpful suggestions. My only wish is that the book had been longer. I didn't want to put it down.
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Summary: A quick and enjoyable read with many excellent insights.
Review: "Lessons from the Pit" is a page-turner! It is an honest and easy-to-read account of life in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. What makes it so fascinating is the way Joe and Terry bring characters and scenes to life and use them to show how God worked in Joe's life. No matter what their career, all readers will come away with valuable insights and helpful suggestions. My only wish is that the book had been longer. I didn't want to put it down.
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Summary: I think this book was great, and one of a kind.
Review: Joe has done a good job of taking interesting stories from his life and distilling an excellent life-lesson from each. Joe's life comes through clearly in this well written collection. He is transparent and engaging. Not only does it draw us to examine our inner health and values, but to look to our own stories for the lessons hidden in them. Worth a plane flight to read it.
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Summary: Dynamic Parallels
Review: Joe Leininger provides great insight in his daily efforts to be both a good and Christian person with his success as a commodities trader. Few businessess are as brutally competitive as trading in Chicago exchanges. However, with great faith and works, Joe obviously holds to his strong Christian values in this tough environment. This book helps me come to grips with striving for success while hoping to maintain the fundamental value of helping and loving one's fellow man (or woman).
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Summary: Dynamic Parallels
Review: Joe Leininger provides great insight in his daily efforts to be both a good and Christian person with his success as a commodities trader. Few businessess are as brutally competitive as trading in Chicago exchanges. However, with great faith and works, Joe obviously holds to his strong Christian values in this tough environment. This book helps me come to grips with striving for success while hoping to maintain the fundamental value of helping and loving one's fellow man (or woman).
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Summary: Leininger's is an engagingly self-effacing Emersonian lesson
Review: Leininger provides an easy to read amplification of the struggle between the human spirit and the profit incentive universal to both millionaires and every day people alike. Read about a humble, spiritual man's view of the transformation of fear to courage that is an essential element to true success in any facet of our lives. The most compelling message comes from the events of Oct. 19th, 1987, the "Black Monday" plunge when the Dow dropped over 500 points and many traders lost fortunes of prior placed trading positions. Despite mounting losses (Leininger indicates that his position trades lost 150,000 in that single day), he fostered the kind of battle mad adrenelin type courage that pushed him to day trade options during those horrible hours, and despite his 150K position loss, bravely he garnered a 300,000 day trade profit amid the temporal crisis- erasing his terrible loss and posting an enormous profit because of his ability to stay calm, no doubt as as result of his stated spiritual commitment. This is no "God Loves You" so be happy religious diatribe: Leininger generously gives each of us a connection as simple and as compelling as his easy, Emersonian manner, a connection between love of God and the meaning of inner strength and the resultant true success. My subsequent interviews with many of Leininger's old friends from college weirdly confirms his spiritual commitment- and the part about the strippers at the bachelor party is true. The worst part of the book is that guys like Joe Leininger makes us all feel a bit like losers. I never met a guy who doesn't enjoy a good stripper every now and then- especially a self made millionaire trader, athlete who stills manages to be one of the boys despite, or perhaps partly because of his commitment to God. The real relevence is that Leininger made his millions learning how to "trade alone" in the pit- when you have God, I suppose it is easier to stand alone in the world because you are never really alone.
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Summary: A well written, introspective inside look of pit trading
Review: Lessons From the Pit opens with a strong narrative depicting a day in the life of a young trader unable to reconcile his behavior as a star trader with his father/husband role model. With this same type of introspection,the author shares in a candid, humorous, and at times, self-effacing, manner his foibles and strengths in his struggle for survival and meaning in the chaotic culture of the pit. As Dr. Clayton Yeuter aptly pointed out in the Forward, Joe Leininger, was a quick learner and garnered valuable lesson from his experiences trading that are applicable both to business and life. The metaphors used in this book are drawn from the contemporary sport scenes and news events which makes for both easy assimilation and enjoyable reading; so much so that I had difficulty putting the book down--also, the comments that I heard from other readers! In sum this is a well written volume giving an inside look at the bizarre culture of pit traders through the eyes of one who factored the spiritual dimension into the equation of his success.
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