Trading is a business. Run it like one.
I’m Stephen Herto. I trade for a living, mostly in my pajamas. I write about the part nobody teaches — the business behind the trades. Structure, taxes, expenses, and the discipline to track all of it.
The Business of Trading, 2nd Edition
The how-to manual for everything a trader needs to build a real trading company. A do-it-yourself manifesto to trader status.
- Trader tax status with the IRS, and the tax loss insurance most traders never hear about
- How to monitor your business — the same numbers I track in my own trading company
- Sixty pages of new material over the first edition, with graphs and charts. Paperback or Kindle.
The password to the downloads page is inside the book.
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