- Author Jack Schwager is writing a new installment of his “Market Wizards” series with George Coyle.
- The latest book will be focused on the early years of top traders, including past subjects of Schwager’s.
- This will be the sixth book in the series, and Schwager expects it to come out in the second half of 2026.
Jack Schwager is adding another installment to his popular “Market Wizards” collection, the author told Business Insider.
Schwager’s sixth “Market Wizards” book will likely be published in the second half of 2026, he said. He is co-writing the latest edition with financial writer and researcher George Coyle.
The focus will be on the early parts of top traders’ careers, he said, and the working title is “Market Wizards: Origins.” He has just begun to do the interviews, though the subjects of the latest books are mostly set, he said.
“It will be a mix of well-known names and those who are completely unknown, but have done spectacularly well,” he said.
His series, which began with 1989’s “Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders,” is an account of the winning investment strategies of big names like billionaire Paul Tudor Jones and under-the-radar day traders who have made large personal fortunes. The series has sold “well over a million copies,” according to a press release from a decade ago and before the publication of the fifth book in the series.
An investor himself, Schwager has worked with different investment managers over the years, including as a partner at London-based fund-of-funds Fortune Asset Management, which was bought by Close Brothers Asset Management in 2006. Before he wrote the first of the “Market Wizards” series, he wrote “A Complete Guide to the Futures Markets” in 1984 and has since revised and updated the reference work several times.
His “Market Wizards” books are primarily interviews with the subject, and the original included 17 traders featured. This time around, he plans to do 12 interviews, including with some subjects who have been featured before.
The big difference he has found in researching and vetting potential subjects now compared with decades ago is the desire for under-the-radar stars to remain anonymous.
“Some people feel a sense of modesty that’s somewhat misplaced,” he said. He said he tells the individuals to “let me be the judge” of whether or not they’re worthy of inclusion.
Still, he anticipates this will be the first book where some subjects remain anonymous.
“Their story is what counts,” he says, and as long as he can verify the numbers via brokerage statements, he is comfortable not naming them.
“They feel they owe something, but they want to remain anonymous,” he said.
