I
had just finished writing the second edition of my book Trade Your
Way to Financial Freedom when my editor asked me who I’d rec-
ommend as a new author for McGraw-Hill. The first person who
popped into my mind was Curtis Faith. Curtis had been the most suc-
cessful of the Turtles.
After the initial training period, Curtis was the only trader who had
totally captured the biggest trend during that time period. He traded
the largest account for Richard Dennis, making over $31 million for
Dennis while he was a Turtle, reported Stanley Angrist in the Wall
Street Journal. Also, Curtis, much like me, has followed a road less trav-
eled since he ended his Turtle career, and that path suggests that he is
in tune with himself instead of with Main Street or Wall Street.
Who better to write a book for McGraw-Hill than someone like that?
I didn’t think anything more about it until I was asked to supply a quote
about a new book called Way of the Turtle. Lo and behold, it was
Curtis’s book. I read about seventy pages of the unedited galleys and
immediately decided that the book needed a foreword and that I really
wanted to write it. Why? In my opinion, this is one of the five best trad-
ing books ever written, and I will recommend that all my clients become
familiar with its contents.
