My Top 10

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Wow Iso,

You’ve got some reading to do!

Both Market wizards books are absolutely essential for any trading enthusiast. There is a third Schwager book called Stock Market wizards. If you need more wizardry.

ROASO is tremendous. I’ve read it multiple times. Mostly for enjoyment, but there are lessons in there.

Mark Douglas’ latest book is probably one of the most important trading books ever written. I actually owned The Disciplined Trader about 5 years ago, and while I was reading it I literally threw it across the room towards the garbage pail declaring it as garbage. I probably was not ready for it from a maturity standpoint, but Trading in the Zone is tremendous.

I used to love Ari Kiev. Douglas has taken the lead IMO. I haven’t read an Ari Kiev book in 3 years I’d say. I wonder what I would think about his Trading in the Zone if I read it now. I should take a glance through it.

You forgot about Elder. Elder’s work is good. I still have never made triple screen work for me, but his treating trading as a business views are essential and helpful. I would say Come Into My Trading room is a must read.

I didn’t see one piece of useful info in the Mathematics of Gambling other than it being vaguely interesting.

Cornelius Luca’s is an overview of FX I’d say. I read it about 2 years ago and do plan on re-reading it soon. When I first read it I thought it was a very bland overview.

Van Tharp is great. Van Tharp discredits Ralph Vince.

I don’t see Ryan Jones on that list of yours.

A lot of people were enjoying Dirk Dutoit I hear.

I like trading physcology reading because I’m physcologically challenged, and the work by Ruth Barrons Roosevelt is good, in particular Overcoming 7 Deadly sins of trading.

Kathy Lien from FXCM is coming out with a book, “ Day Trading the Forex Market, and she is bright and that should be good. I ordered it.


And I’m currently reading “ The Secrets of Economic Indicators” by Bernard Baumohl, which is a good book for fundies, on all these international news releases we deal with.

Geez these markets are slow this week.

Enjoy

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Edwin Lefevre - ROASO: Read first 50 pages but the hero (Jesse) has blown his account at least twice so I put the book down thinkin' he's a loser. Again everybody loves the book so I'm gonna have to finish it.

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That really made me laugh man


Here's my TOP 10 (the books I've read so far, bear in mind I've only been at this for a few weeks so there's alot more to be read)

Quantitive Trading and Money Management: Revised Edition - Fred Gehm;
(Money management, what else can I say. Its a little boring but I'm doing my best to finish it)

Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets : A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications - John J. Murphy;

The Candlestick Course- Steve Nison; (A must for any person that wants to understand candlesticks properly. Being a newbie, I haven't had much practise on candlesticks and I needed something a little bit more detailed. That would be the book below this comment)

Japanese Candlestick Charting - Second Edition - Steve Nison;

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Marketplace Book)- Edwin Lefèvre; (I loved this particular book, it really taught me alot. It wasn't very technical, but it had a good story to it and it kept flowing. Mostly all psych I believe. But I've read it a few times already.)

Market Wizards : Interviews with Top Traders- Jack D. Schwager; (Interview with the best, what else could you ask for. It gives the reader alot to think about. Many ways to get from A to B and things to look out for, etc)

Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management - Alexander Elder;(The two books from Elder have helped explain much of what goes on in the market. He gives it to the reader direct, tells you what you should be doing, what you shouldn't be doing, what you can do to improve and why you're not getting where you should be getting and why women are better traders )

Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom - Van K. Tharp; (Still halfway through this one)

Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading - Alexander Elder;

The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders (A Marketplace Book) - Jack D. Schwager;



Here's some other books in my reading list:-


Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking- Malcolm Gladwell; (Got this from this forum. Suppose to help a person locate the important data from a warehouse of data)

Day Trading the Currency Market : Technical and Fundamental Strategies To Profit from Market Swings (Wiley Trading) - Kathy Lien; (Seems a little too technical for me, but I've already bought the book so I'll just go ahead and read it)

Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline and a Winning Attitude - Mark Douglas; (Recommended on the forums)

High Probability trading - Marcel Link;


Still going over other books to read but there's just too many of em out and it'll take some time.

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Against the Gods: The remarkable story of risk by Peter Bernstein is a good read if you want to get a short history of risk management and how it evolved.

Seeing how risk and risk management has evolved is pretty interesting to me.

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I like Mark Douglas's "Trading in the Zone", although he goes off on one too many stories for me. "Make your points quicker, we get the message!" is what I kept thinking through his many analogies.

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Quoting Insider

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Wow Iso,

You’ve got some reading to do!

Both Market wizards books are absolutely essential for any trading enthusiast. There is a third Schwager book called Stock Market wizards. If you need more wizardry.

ROASO is tremendous. I’ve read it multiple times. Mostly for enjoyment, but there are lessons in there.

Mark Douglas’ latest book is probably one of the most important trading books ever written. I actually owned The Disciplined Trader about 5 years ago, and while I was reading it I literally threw it across the room towards the garbage pail declaring it as garbage. I probably was not ready for it from a maturity standpoint, but Trading in the Zone is tremendous.

I used to love Ari Kiev. Douglas has taken the lead IMO. I haven’t read an Ari Kiev book in 3 years I’d say. I wonder what I would think about his Trading in the Zone if I read it now. I should take a glance through it.

You forgot about Elder. Elder’s work is good. I still have never made triple screen work for me, but his treating trading as a business views are essential and helpful. I would say Come Into My Trading room is a must read.

I didn’t see one piece of useful info in the Mathematics of Gambling other than it being vaguely interesting.

Cornelius Luca’s is an overview of FX I’d say. I read it about 2 years ago and do plan on re-reading it soon. When I first read it I thought it was a very bland overview.

Van Tharp is great. Van Tharp discredits Ralph Vince.

I don’t see Ryan Jones on that list of yours.

A lot of people were enjoying Dirk Dutoit I hear.

I like trading physcology reading because I’m physcologically challenged, and the work by Ruth Barrons Roosevelt is good, in particular Overcoming 7 Deadly sins of trading.

Kathy Lien from FXCM is coming out with a book, “ Day Trading the Forex Market, and she is bright and that should be good. I ordered it.


And I’m currently reading “ The Secrets of Economic Indicators” by Bernard Baumohl, which is a good book for fundies, on all these international news releases we deal with.

Geez these markets are slow this week.

Enjoy

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if you can provide me some of book names you already read and rating toooo if you can
as i am new in trading
thank

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P.S., here's MY reading list to date:

Awesome books:

--Trading in the Zone. by Mark Douglas (there's a lot of helpful stuff in here on psychology. I've read this a few times already.)

--Mastering the Trade. by John Carter (I LOVE this book. If you can only buy one book, buy this book for now. Reading this book was when the lightbulb started to go on. I've read it a few times, yet have only begun to learn from it.)

--Day Trading the Currency Market. by Kathy Lien. (A good book, I've only read it once and need to give it another study.)

--Technical Analysis for the Currency Markets. by Boris Schlossberg. (a great book, but dense. My second favorite after Mastering the Trade)


Somewhat useful to me:
--Market Wizards and The New Market Wizards (interesting bios of various traders and very useful for getting to understand what trading is, but less so for acquiring skills

--Forex Trading for Maximum Profit (it's ok but there's something I don't care for about it)

--The Disciplined Trader (interesting at points, but lots of heavy stuff. Best read in chunks over time.)

Not useful to me:

--Getting Started in Currency Trading (bored me)

--Come into My Trading Room (lots of people love this book. Every time I look at it I get depressed and certain I'll never be a success from this. So I don't look at it any more.)

--Warrior Trading (maybe I'd already read too much Mark Douglas when I read this, maybe someday I'll appreciate it more. It wasn't that enlightening.)

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Quoting Isotonic

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Another poll of sorts. Like Merlin post your top 10 list of best books, or books to read or whatever. Add a quick reason why for each if you can. Or even write a full review!
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