The Day Trader [Audio CD]

Stephen Frey (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator)

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Books On Tape (2002)
• ISBN-10: 1415944660
• ISBN-13: 978-1415944660
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Stephen Frey is a managing director at a private equity firm. He is the bestselling author of fourteen previous novels, including The Fourth Order, The Insider, and The Takeover. He lives in Florida.

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The Day Trader - Does Not Deliver, February 10, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Day Trader: A Novel of Risk and Reward (Hardcover)

Day Trading may someday define the late 1990's. The boom, the bust, the empowerment of the individual. Unfortunately, Frey squanders his opportunity to help us make sense of it. If the title, THE DAY TRADER, attracts you (like it did me), do not be misled. The scope of the book is very small-minded. I was hoping to better understand the fullness of this huge phenomenon (through the power of fiction). So I expected good fictional characterizations and a more even-handed plot than Frey provided. His characters never really convince you and there's a plot that seems just too darn cooked up. I wanted a good fictionalized view of this phenomenon and I sure didn't find it here.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Personal Review, February 11, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Day Trader: A Novel of Risk and Reward (Hardcover)

Day Trading was certainly one the most dynamic infatuations of possibly America's greatest decade. So when Frey chose to call his latest, The Day Trader, I was hoping he might capture the deeper meanings of such an interesting phenomenon. Unfortunately, I think Frey squandered a terrific opportunity. Instead of characterizing this naturally dramatic period fairly, he opted for plot devices and broad character portrayals. After it's over, you don't feel any clarity or much of anything, it's a few hundred pages of typical mystery that any subject normally provides. When fiction works well, it provides insight, gusto, and obvious enjoyment. I just didn't get it here.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Average, January 23, 2002

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Konrad Kern (OFallon, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Day Trader: A Novel of Risk and Reward (Hardcover)

`The Day Trader'is Stephen Frey's latest foray into the financial thriller. Not his best but still quite enjoyable.

When Augustus McKnight gets lucky on one of his stocks and makes a significant profit he thinks it'll make things all better for him and his wife. Wrong. Before he gets a chance to say anything she tells him she's leaving him and wants a divorce-it seems there is a greener pasture with her boss. The next day she is found murdered. He will be the beneficiary of a one million dollar life insurance policy taken out six months earlier. So he quits his regular job and decides to become a full time day trader. Needless to say there is a detective on his case as well as an insurance investigator. Now for some reason this seems very surprising to the, obviously very naďve, Augustus.

With some neat twists and turns, Frey has written an entertaining novel. The biggest flaw in this book (fairly significant) is the protagonist. Through most of the novel I could not have cared less about Augustus. As mentioned by other reviews, and to put it plainly, he was just too dumb to care about.
I kept waiting for him to get smart but the book ended before I got there.
Though the novel tells you a little about trading, it mostly deals with the murder mystery.