The Prop Trader's Chronicles will unveil the strategies and techniques used at proprietary trading firms and by other professional stock traders. The book will describe the author's experience as a prop trader in an engaging narrative, but at the same time will provide an in-depth explanation of strategies employed by prop traders utilizing direct access technologies, Level II quotes, time and statistical arbitrage. The author will describe how to use time & sales data as the modern-day equivalent of 'reading the tape.' Long the province of professional traders, the price/transaction data and leverage-dependent strategies discussed in the book are now available to individual traders through a select number of direct-access brokers. In short, the book will show active independent traders how to trade at a professional level and will provide a foundation for aspiring professional traders.
