The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess

✍ Scribed by Duff, Turney

• Book ID: 107557461
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 854 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780770437169

✦ Synopsis

The Buy Side, by former Galleon Group trader Turney Duff, portrays an after-hours Wall Street culture where drugs and sex are rampant and billions in trading commissions flow to those who dangle the most enticements. A remarkable writing debut, filled with indelible moments, The Buy Side shows as no book ever has the rewards -- and dizzying temptations -- of making a living on the Street.

Growing up in the 1980's Turney Duff was your average kid from Kennebunk, Maine, eager to expand his horizons. After trying -- and failing -- to land a job as a journalist, he secured a trainee position at Morgan Stanley and got his first feel for the pecking order that exists in the trading pits. Those on the ''buy side,'' the traders who make large bets on whether a stock will rise or fall, are the ''alphas'' and those on the ''sell side,'' the brokers who handle their business, are eager to please.

How eager to please was brought home stunningly to Turney in...