When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein

Random House, September 2000, 264 pages
The classic image of a Wall Street market trader is someone, usually a man, on the trading floor, shouting buy and sell orders, clutching a sheaf of trading tickets. Floor traders must have an instinctive feel for trading and get by on their quick wits. They are now a vanishing species and will soon join Mark Twain's riverboat captains in extinction and myth.
Modern trading is now almost entirely paperless and takes place in the cyberspace of computers and computer networks. The instincts of market traders are being augmented and in some cases repl…