The Greatest Trade Ever  (English, Paperback, Zuckerman Gregory)

Its one of the best book which explained the greatest trade of John Paulson. The reward he got was amazing, people laughed at him when he predicted the Global Financial crisis in 2006 which eventually happened in 2008.

You will observe the conviction he had on this trade, he was so confident that market will collapse sooner than later, though at one point of time he lost substantial money, he did no book loss and closed the trade, instead he stick to his plan and finally did the so called Gr...

A marvellous book which tells the tale of strong conviction of Paulson and spot the mortgage bubble in US. Paulson had displayed nerves of steel to withhold his belief and turns out to be a winner with the biggest bounty.

The Greatest Trade Ever is the story of Hedge Fund Manager making nearly $20 billion in 3 years during the sub-prime crisis by betting the meltdown of US residential mortgages. Though the events related to John Paulson's professional life may have been true, I somehow feel lot of the story was made-up to glorify the overall personality of Mr. Paulson.

In any case, you can read the book if you just want to learn how Mr. Paulson made $20 billion !!