VOL · II
When Greed
Meets Gravity.Four hundred years of mayhem, in one book.
From the tulip fields of 1637 to the crypto collapse of 2022, the bubbles that built the modern world all followed the same blueprint — and so will the next one.
Four mornings.Three centuries.One pattern.
A Tuesday morning is coming. It is coming for all of us. It is coming for me. It is coming for you. Every generation believes its bubble is different. It never is.
22 disasters. One blueprint.
Each chapter dissects a financial collapse — how it began, why the experts missed it, and what it cost the people who didn’t see it coming.
Same framework. Different lens.
The Complete Trader’s Edge taught the framework. Market Mayhem applies it backwards — through four centuries of disasters that all followed the same blueprint.
Mind. Method. Money. The same three pillars that build a profitable trader are the three pillars that explain every crash in history. When mind breaks, method follows. When method breaks, money is gone.
Read this book and you stop seeing isolated incidents. You start seeing the pattern.
Mind
Method
Money
If you’ve ever bought at the top — this book is for you.
The Active Trader
You’ve felt the pull of a parabolic move. You’ve sized up “just this once.” You want to recognize the pattern in your own behaviour before the market teaches you the hard way.
The Curious Historian
You read about Tulip Mania once and dismissed it as quaint. This book will show you why it’s the most contemporary story you’ve ever read.
Anyone With a Portfolio
Crypto, stocks, real estate, your retirement account. The next bubble will not announce itself. It will look like an opportunity. It always does.
A Tuesday morning is coming. It is coming for all of us. It is coming for you.
Hear the bubbles burst.
Eighteen episodes. One per chapter. Each one a cinematic deep-dive into a different financial collapse, narrated like a documentary thriller.
Released weekly through August. Available wherever you listen.
Two volumes. One framework.
The Complete Trader’s Edge teaches the system. Market Mayhem proves why it matters.
The Complete Trader’s Edge
★ NEW
Market Mayhem
Read it however you want.
Same complete book. Two editions. Pick the one that fits your shelf.
Kindle
- All 22 chapters · full text
- Embedded sigil illustrations
- Available worldwide
- Read on phone, tablet, Kindle
Paperback
- Premium cream paper
- Sigil engravings throughout
- Built to live on the shelf
- Ships internationally
Louw van Riet
Author of The Complete Trader’s Edge, host of the Greatest Traders and Market Mayhem podcasts, and a trader of equities, gold, and futures.
Writing from the trenches of South Africa’s small but brutal trading scene, Louw built the Mind · Method · Money framework over 15 years of staring at charts, blowing up accounts, and reluctantly figuring out what actually works. Market Mayhem is his second book.
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The next Tuesday
morning is already forming.
You will see it before it arrives.
This book is how.