In 1987 my father and I purchased a seat on the New York Futures Exchange for $100 and established a trading account with $25,000. The goal, he explained, was to make $2,500 a week. Although this seemed like an extraordinary annualized return on investment, I had heard of legendary traders who had taken meager sums and transformed them into vast fortunes, and so I embarked on a journey that eventually culminated in the publication of this book.