Leg the Spread

A Woman's Adventures Inside the Trillion-Dollar Boys Club of Commodities Trading

By: Cari Lynn

Narrated by: Cari Lynn

Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

In the Futures market, it's all about minimizing risk and maximizing your wallet. Buying something gives you one leg - selling something gives you another - and if you've got two legs to stand on, that's your spread. Anyone can make money by legging the spread, but if you're a woman, you need something else: the presence, savvy, and stomach to run with the bulls and make your way in this ultimate boys club.

Welcome to the jungle.

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (known in the financial world as "the Merc") is the busiest Futures exchange in the world: a hair-raising, high-pressure den of iniquity with enough yelling, bullying, and mayhem to rattle even the toughest of hardball commodities traders. And if you're a woman, the Merc can be the seventh circle of hell, given the sexual harassment, verbal vulgarity, and blatant condescension that comes with the turf. But that fact hasn't stopped a handful of talented and determined women from crashing the frat party of the Merc and making millions while they're at it.

When Cari Lynn first ventured onto the floor of the Merc in early 2000, she did so because she, like so many others, was riveted by the amount of money that could be made through trading with seemingly little effort. But she quickly discovered that only a handful of females have ever made it into the trading pits-a testosterone-saturated world where the men are often monsters and there's no room for boys, let alone women. Leg the Spread is the highly entertaining account of Lynn's years as a clerk at the Merc, a job that taught her not only the cutthroat rules of engagement, but just how far both men and women will go when they stand to win or lose everything in the blink of an eye.

From Natalie, who bares her midriff and records her trades with a pink pom-pom pen, but is known to throw a punch to stand her ground, to Bev, who hustles billions of dollars in contracts every day and whose sway over the market is so great that major players like Goldman Sachs refuse to trade if she's not in the pit, Lynn provides a riveting portrait of what it takes to prove your moxie daily in the midst of this ultimate men's club.

Packed with jaw-dropping stories of bad behavior, good instincts, breathtaking greed, and heroic courage, Leg the Spread is an uproarious, adrenaline-fueled memoir that offers a completely new take on women and Wall Street - and an unprecedented entry into one of the last true financial playgrounds.

©2004 Cari Lynn (P)2013 Cari Lynn

Don’t listen to that last review that was bad.

That negative reviewer doesn’t know what they’re talking about. I used to teach Trading at an Academy in Atlanta. One of our most influential people instructor Robert Dunn. He traded on the CME and he owns two seats at there. his Twitter is trader goalie one. He always talks about the fast market moves and just making the decision and feeling it as if you’re there in the pit. The way that the Academy teaches is The exact opposite. The name of the school is online trading Academy in Roswell Georgia. The Academy sucks. At least for future this book has tons of lessons and that reviewer is deaf and stupid, Cari if you are reading this is the great collection of lessons and I thoroughly enjoyed Listening to you!

Nothing like I thought

Not one lesson on training. All grab butt stories and drama. Very disappointed with this.