basically, I want to just

do a video where we talk about the book a little bit

we've introduced the fact that we doing it

but we haven't actually really spoken much about the book itself, the content.

You know, I know this channel is

“Gary’s Economics”, it’s about the economics.

But this book is going to be a massive part of

how this project goes forwards this year,

it’s a massive opportunity to get a ton of publicity.

And it's another avenue to get this message out to a ton of people.

And I want the people who've been watching this channel

for a long time, who have been with this channel for a long time

to understand what we're doing, And I just want to get like,

I want the viewers, especially if you've been around for a long time.

I want to get them on board on what they're doing.

Help them to understand what's going to happen, because, you know,

hopefully, touch wood we are going to get like a ton of publicity coming up.

February, March book comes out March 5th.

And I just want everybody to feel like we're doing this together, basically.

I'm super, super passionate about this book.

I love this book.

And I put a lot of myself and my emotions into this book,

and I want people to read it because I think that

it's a really powerful way of getting our message out there.

the book is mainly when I was a trader.

So I started as a trader in 2008, which is 15 years ago.

The book ends in 2014, which is nine years ago now.

So really like, a

lot of I wrote, I wrote it by kind of inhabiting that space.

You go back to where you were at the time and how you felt at the time.

You just kind of try to write it how it was, how it felt at the time.

And then

one thing that I kind of realised writing it.

There are people who watch the channel will know like I went through quite

a lot of mad stuff when I was a trader like I became Citi Bank’s top trader

by basically betting on the collapse of the global economy when I was just 24,

you know, I won that job in a card game when I was 20 years old.

You know, I worked with some crazy people, and when I tried to quit,

there were some pretty severe threats thrown at me which were pretty stressful.

And I went through like a lot of sort of mental health difficulties

which you’ll read about in the book.

But rewriting the book, what I realised was

how alone I was in the time, like doing the things I was doing.

And I didn’t...

when I was at the time and the space I didn’t really realise it,

but the experience of having this sort of crazy job,

which paid me crazy amounts of money by betting on these terrible things.

It kind of started to isolate me a little bit from the people around me,

and I was dealing with all this mad stuff that was happening like,

my instinct as a young man in my early twenties, mid

twenties was not to sort of ask people around me for help.

And in a weird way, it was quite nice to write it now

because you kind of

you get to feel and I got to feel almost like I, me

now was being there for me then by sort of writing it now.

Like it sort of, you know, I was a very young man

when these things happened, and I kind of got to feel like now

in this like hypothetical way, I can sort of be there with that person.

And I not only that, but also we can share this book

with, you know, hopefully tens of thousands,

hundreds of thousands, millions of people.

You know,

I would love for millions of people to read this story and see what happened.

And also, I think, during the course of this story,

it's a story of how I went from sort of like a poor kid

to a millionaire.

But it's also a story of how I realised that the world is totally fucked.

You know, this is a realisation that I made when I was

24, that was really the year

that I started to realise, like, okay, things are totally fucked.

Things are going to be totally terrible forever. And

it was my job to do those analyses at the time.

And I went and I put the bet on because that was my job.

And I made millions of pounds because that was my job.

And everybody said,

“Fantastic, you’re the best trader in the world, well done.” And it was,

it's crazy, right?

It’s a crazy thing to happen.

There's these stories in the book of sort of my first bonus and how

it was much more than I expected it was going to be.

And I didn't know who can I tell.

And I felt like I couldn’t tell my parents.

I felt like I couldn't tell my friends.

I felt like I couldn’t tell my girlfriend.

It’s such a crazy experience and I think

you know, loads of people are going to hear it and be like,

you made that much money when you were, how old was I then?

So I’d just turned 23.

Young basically when that happened.

But weirdly, like when I went back

and sort of re-lived it, I experienced it as a

traumatic event

in a way, like a shocking event.

I think I never really sort of stopped asking myself

until I started writing this book.

How has that affected you as a person, you know?

When I go to parties and people say, “What do you do?” The truth is,

I am somebody who has made millions of pounds

by betting on the permanent collapse of the global economy

and I've been judged to be one of the best traders in the world

that knowing this thing,

and I'm consistently right predicting this thing,

and I'm very confident that that will happen.

What do you tell someone,?

You know, I make money

because I know that the global economy is going to collapse, you know,

But this book has given me like a kind of a

space to rewrite my history

in such a way that rather than

being given and realising these terrible, terrible bits of information

and having absolutely nothing you can do about it, rather than make money,

it's given me a space in a way that I can tell this story

to other people in such a way that hopefully

they can be convinced that we need to stop this.

So it's turned this

kind of horrible experience.

And I say that like totally aware that I've made a lot of money out of this,

and it's given me a kind of financial independence a lot people don't have.

But this isolating experience, this isolating knowledge of a bad thing

that's going to happen.

Hopefully it's given me a way

to turn that into, you know,

a warning for other people.

So it was hard to write and it was emotional and it was often sad.

But that said, you know, I wanted to make it funny.

And I think there are funny moments in it.

But hopefully it turned

a bad experience into something which could be positive.

And hopefully it's going to build us that platform.

It's going to hopefully sort of, you know, kick the doors down and say, listen,

we need to do something.

We need to make things change.

There's those bits in the book where you're starting to ask the questions

about inequality and you're asking people around you about it.

And it's almost like you're speaking to a brick wall sometimes.

Are those are the moments where you were like, I've got to get out.

The subject of leaving,

leaving finance or in a bigger picture, like, walking away from money

is a big

question in my life and the big question of the book in a sense,

like why did I leave?

Why don't other people leave? Should you leave?

You know, do you have a moral responsibility to leave?

Because the truth of the matter is, it's not like,

you leaving doesn't make no difference.

You know,

you gotta big city job and you quit, it’s not going

to stop the collapse of the economy, you know what I mean?

And there’s this one conversation I have in the book with the Arthur character,

which is, you know, it's

coming towards the end of the book Where I start to realise, it's

surprisingly late, after I start betting on these things.

Probably like a year and a half, two years after I start betting on these things,

that I start to ask the questions like, should we do something about this?

You know what I mean, is this a thing, because I don't come

from a political family and I was just doing my job.

And then I start thinking, should we do something,

and I have this conversation with this trader.

And I'm like, should we do something?

And he's like, well we did something, we put the trade on.

And I'm like, you know, I’m not talking about the trade.

It's not about the trade. Should we do something?

And he's like, well, what do you do? What

are you going to do?

And, you know, I used to make millions of pounds betting on these things.

It's not like I was able to just walk out and stop it from happening.

I work hard at this.

I'm trying to stop it.

But there’s a question of why did I leave?

And it's not just me.

There's a lot of characters in the book who are sort of

bouncing around the ideas in their head, should I leave?

And I suppose there's sort of there's two obvious

contrasting characters in the book, which is me, and Caleb, my boss.

And we both, you know,

consider quitting over the course of the book

and we end up taking very different paths.

And there's this

question of, what is your responsibility as a human being?

You know what I mean?

How do you

live your life in this world that we live in

where things are getting worse quite quickly?

And first and foremost, I'm not the one who's on the sharp end of it, right?

But every single person out there watching this video

has this question to ask themselves, which is, shit's collapsing.

I can't stop it.

So what do I do?

You know, and this is, of course, most people are not,

you know, big multimillion pound traders.

But everybody has this question of we live in this country and this society

and this world where the economy is slowly falling apart.

And we all have this

question inside ourselves.

And, you know, some of us hear it louder than others.

Well, what should I do? What do you do?

So I quit trading in 2014, and ever since then I've been, you know,

with varying degrees of intensity, trying to figure out how we can stop this.

It's not easy, you know what I mean?

It's not like, some are like “Why don’t you run for parliament?”

But it's not like I just become a Labour MP and I stop this.

It's more difficult than that, you know?

And I tried various things, I've worked for think tanks.

I made my website.

I went back to university, I did a master's degree before

I kind of settled on this.

Okay, we're going to try and

build a YouTube, build social media.

Use my personal sort of face, use my myself as a brand

to try to bring people into this and

initially I was quite protective of my personal story

just because, you know, like most people I didn't want to like, splash my

personal story all over the newspapers

and I wanted to try and keep a little bit of privacy.

And we were able and we have been able to build up like a decent community

and a decent like sort of movement on the back of economics information.

But I think I kind of knew from the start

like, this story's a good fucking story.

I was expelled from school at 16, I won my job in a card game

and I've become the top trader in the world

by betting on the collapse of the global economy.

And then, like I have, you know, I get basically threatened

when I try to leave and have this sort of very difficult journey out.

I kind of knew that

if we can find the right

vehicle for this story,

that it could potentially

be a passport to a much bigger audience.

And this is what we're going to need.

Look, it's been great

growing this YouTube, and I'm very thankful for the support of everyone

who's been watching, everyone who's been sharing the videos from the start.

But we need to be bigger.

We just need to be bigger.

So I started writing this book, you know, a year and a half ago,

and I just thought this could be it, you know, this could be our way.

And in the course of us all

fell in love with writing it and I think this is such a...

I think people watching, they might think that the book is going

to be kind of like the YouTube channel, you know, like vignettes,

short stories, my time in trading and how it relates to the economy.

The book is...

I wanted the book to be like a novel, to be like a film.

I want you to be

there.

I want you to be

19 year old Gary Stevenson, at LSE.

21 year old Gary Stevenson walking onto the trading floor

for the first time, 23, 24 year old Gary Stevenson realising what's happening,

becoming the best trader in the world.

I want you to experience that.

And I think that hopefully is going to appeal to people

in the way that we can never do on YouTube.

We can't give you that experience, you know?

So I think it's a way to grow our message.

I think it's a really powerful way to tell this story

I think the YouTube can help the book and the film,

and the book and the film

can help the YouTube and together, I think these two things together can help

us build

this into a political movement.

I didn't start this YouTube to have a YouTube, You know.

I started this YouTube to change fucking policy

and I think this is the way that we do So I should mention

because obviously we're doing the book, the publishers will kill me if I don't.

The book is called The Trading Game.

The Trading Game: A Confession by me, Gary Stevenson.

Comes out on March 5th.

I would love for you to support it.

I would love you to preorder it. I'd love you to buy it.

The more preorders we get, the more chance we have to come in

at number one and blow it up.

We have a discount code from Waterstones, which is TTG2024.

The trading game, 2024.

TTG2024, which should get you 20% off.

We are going to

have book signing events across the country.

At the moment I think we're going to have them in London,

Bristol, Bath,

Liverpool, Manchester,

Edinburgh and Dublin is what I think we have so far.

As soon as I have dates I'll put them down.

But you know, I know we haven't done any public events yet,

so if people want to come meet me, get a book signed,

we’ll put those events up.

But I know it's a bit of a change from what we’re doing. But

I'm really excited about the book.

I think it's really good.

You know, I'd love the support of the viewers

and if you want to buy the book, this is it.

The Trading Game, Gary Stevenson.

I honestly think it's just

an exciting read.

The cameraman’s read it.

He seems to like it so I hope you will too.

But thank you.

And, you know, we'll keep the videos coming.

More about economics, more about the book, thank you.