Addicted to Control.
Obsessed with the Market. Trapped in the Game.
Welcome to the official site of Khosrow (Hoss) Motalaby, author of the electrifying psychological thriller that pulls you into the chaos of the financial world; The High/Low.
Step into a story where numbers aren’t just data; they’re lifelines. Where control is an illusion, and obsession comes at a cost. Follow a trader on a harrowing descent into addiction, ego, and the brutal truth behind market mastery.
Meet Khosrow (Hoss) Motalaby
Thriller author. Market observer. Mind hunter.
Khosrow Motalaby writes with one foot in the world of financial strategy and the other in the darker corners of human psychology. With a deep fascination for how we risk, calculate, and self-destruct in the pursuit of power, Hoss explores what happens when obsession overrules logic.
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High.Low. by Khosrow Motalaby reveals the Motalaby Price Gravitational Swing™ method—a revolutionary intraday trading system designed to transform unpredictable market swings into precise, high-probability trades. With over five decades of trading experience, Motalaby teaches you to track and time "gravitational reversals" in intraday highs and lows. Whether you're a total beginner or struggling with inconsistency, this system guides you to trade with confidence and consistency in the markets.
In The High/Low, Hoss Motalaby crafts a raw, intense narrative about one man’s pursuit of perfection in a world ruled by unpredictability. It’s more than just a story about stock trading; it’s about the cost of chasing control in a chaotic world.
The protagonist, a brilliant but obsessive trader, builds a near-perfect system to “beat the market.” But as wins pile up, so does the pressure; and the addiction. What starts as a calculated game becomes a psychological battleground, where ego, fear, and addiction blur the line between strategy and self-destruction.
Lucky Cobb has survived Vietnam, heartbreak, and fifty years of bad luck—but nothing prepares him for the chaos waiting inside a misplaced duffel bag.
When a baggage claim mix-up hands him a bag stuffed with counterfeit cash, Lucky thinks his fortune has finally turned. Instead, he becomes the target of dangerous mainland criminals who chase him across the Big Island of Hawaii.
In a world where memories are currency, rogue thief Evan Pierce uncovers a neural core that should never have existed—triggering a chain of events that threaten humanity’s future. Teaming up with brilliant neuroscientist Aria Vance, Evan exposes VaultCore’s chilling agenda: creating programmable human replicas from stolen consciousness. But as Aria faces secrets from her own past, the duo must outmaneuver a powerful biotech empire bent on silencing them. The Memory Broker is a gripping sci-fi thriller where memory defines identity, power is data-driven, and the future teeters on the edge of collapse.
When a team of elite thieves infiltrates the Louvre to steal France’s legendary Crown Jewels, they uncover more than gemstones—they awaken a centuries-old secret hidden by Napoleon himself. Beneath the Regent’s diamond lies Auster 45, a microscopic code leading to a forgotten map of underground vaults filled with lost technologies, forbidden knowledge, and the power to rebuild empires.
As gemologist Arman Navid and his crew race across Europe and Africa, hunted by Interpol and shadow conspiracies, they discover that the real treasure isn’t gold—it’s a weapon from the past that could rewrite the future.
One man. One system. One obsession
The High/Low is a psychological thriller set against the backdrop of the stock market; a story of ambition, addiction, and the unraveling of control. When a trader builds a flawless system to outsmart the market, he thinks he’s won. But what begins as strategy quickly spirals into compulsion, as his identity gets swallowed by the game he can’t stop playing.
If you’ve ever asked what it really means to chase success; or feared what happens when you catch it; this book will hit you where it hurts.
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