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The Trading Floor: A Young Trader's Century - Book Announcement

5 min · 15. mai 2026
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Rondanini Publishing announces The Trading Floor: A Young Trader's Century, a novela by Luigi Pascal Rondanini. Hitting the road on June 16th. Eleven linked stories. Thirty years of financial crises. A FX trader named Tom Fielding moves through Black Monday, LTCM, the Asian crisis, and Lehman—institutions collapsing in real time, careers decided in other rooms, markets grinding forward. This is not a textbook. It's not a war story collection. It's autobiographical in structure: the crises are real, the institutional pressures are real, the names are fictionalized. Rondanini is a 38-year practitioner in FX and financial markets. He's written the FX Professional Series and operates an education platform with over 140 professional modules. This novela marks his first work of financial fiction—a departure from technical instruction into narrative. Each story is complete in itself but part of a larger architecture about how people make decisions under pressure, how volatility moves careers, and what happens when the world keeps trading while you're trying to survive. Not a drama. Not a hype narrative. Not like the HBO series Industry—actual trading floors are much quieter than television suggests. The real pressure is internal: positions moving against you, risk limits, phone calls from management. Tension interrupted by moments that change everything. Available now for pre-orders: * Direct: rondanini.com/youngtrader [ rondanini.com/youngtrader] * ISBN: 9781918177169 Follow the author: * Website: rondanini.uk [rondanini.uk] * Education: learn.rondanini.com [learn.rondanini.com] #TradingFloor #FinancialFiction #Novela #TradingStories #FinancialMarkets #IndiePublishing"

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