The Trading Game

If you were going to rob a bank and you saw the vault door left open, what would you do? Would you wait around?

Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken footballs on the streets of East London in the shadow of Canary Wharf's skyscrapers, Gary wanted something better. Something a whole lot bigger.

Then he won a competition run by The Trading Game. It was a golden ticket to a new life: he became the youngest trader in the city, a place where you could make more money than you'd ever imagined. Your colleagues are dysfunctional maths geniuses, overfed public schoolboys and borderline psychopaths — and yet they start to feel like family. Soon you're the bank's most profitable trader, dealing in nearly a trillion dollars a day. You dream of numbers in your sleep — and then stop sleeping at all.

But what happens when winning starts to feel like losing? When the easiest way to make money is to bet on millions becoming poorer — and, as the economy slips toward the precipice, your own sanity starts to slip with it? You want to stop, but you can't. Because nobody ever leaves.

Would you stick, or quit? Even if it meant risking everything?

An outrageous, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world — from someone who survived the trading game and then blew it all wide open.