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  • Mar 15, 2010 6:07am Mar 15, 2010 6:07am
Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets by Stein Weinstein, very good book and all that you will ever need if you have discipline and patience.
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  • Mar 17, 2010 9:27am Mar 17, 2010 9:27am
excellent book!



Quoting birdt
It's a compliment that you would take my recommendation, but I feel I have to follow up with a note to manage your expectations! I found it an excellent read but others might take a different view. And if you're looking for a trading system in a book, then this is not it, which is not to say that there aren't tools and wisdom within it that could not profoundly influence your approach to the markets.
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  • Mar 17, 2010 3:13pm Mar 17, 2010 3:13pm
Quoting birdt
Jason Alan Jankovsky's - The Art of the Trade (what I learned and lost trading the Chicago futures markets). Best book about trading I've ever read. The chapter "The Meaning of Life" is absolutely brilliant. The book hasn't got much to do with trading, yet simultaneously has everything to do with it. Give it a read if you can handle it and tell me what you think.
Got it coming from the library (Seattle's got a hell of a good library system BTW).

Looking forward to it.

Thanks!
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  • Mar 21, 2010 6:40am Mar 21, 2010 6:40am
Quoting birdt
I'd recommend keeping your reading to a limited number of books rather than employing the scatter-gun approach of learning little bits of everything. When you first start out you don't know what you need to know, because you don't know it yet. Enthusiastic as you may be, unless you have a set curriculum (by a mentor possibly), reading from a broad spectrum of literature (much of which will contradict itself) is likely to confuse you. You will never be a completely green newbie again so it is important to learn the right things in the right way....
Fooled by randomness is nothing but pretentious talk. You want a useful book about forex, read "how to beat the forex dealer" by agustin silvani.
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  • Mar 21, 2010 7:14am Mar 21, 2010 7:14am
Quoting TomFX
Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets by Stein Weinstein, very good book and all that you will ever need if you have discipline and patience.
I have that book, it's old school but it's good overview of markets and very much relative today.
"I made all my money by selling too soon"
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  • Mar 21, 2010 8:00am Mar 21, 2010 8:00am
Way of The Turtle & Trade Your Way To Financial Freedom are my favourite two.

Bird Watching In Lion Country is also pretty good.
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  • Mar 28, 2010 7:33pm Mar 28, 2010 7:33pm
Bird Watching in Lion Country sounds like a marketing scam or disinformation. If you want to read a book by a real trader read "Pit Bull" by Marty Schwartz. Just as not every thread in a forum is designed to help you succeed, not every book is either.
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  • Mar 28, 2010 8:57pm Mar 28, 2010 8:57pm
Wow. Looking over the many books on trading that I own...almost completely worthless crap. Very few that are worth keeping. I think that I'll give them to the library to free up space. The one that cracks me up is one of the first that I ever bought - the manual that came as a part of the Ken Roberts course. My hat's off to you sir! Snake oil at its finest!
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  • Mar 29, 2010 12:02am Mar 29, 2010 12:02am
Check out John Carter's "Mastering the Trade." It's a wealth of information.

"Forex Conquered" isn't bad either, by Person.

"Dad's Legacy" is another good one.

Hope these help.
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  • Mar 29, 2010 12:02am Mar 29, 2010 12:02am
I read quite a few books on trading, I liked the wizard books and also Reminiscence of a Stock Operator, the rest were a waste.
Economists have forecast 9 out of the last 5 recessions
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  • Mar 29, 2010 12:36am Mar 29, 2010 12:36am
Warrior Trading by Clifford Bennett.

You will either love it or hate it, I loved it and in my honest opinion this book rivals Van Tharp's Trade your way to financial freedom.

He talks in analogies a lot and this makes you really think about the markets and not just price and charts.

I believe everyone should read this book, it is without a doubt one of the best forex books out there.

Thanks Clifford.

Perry
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  • Edited Apr 14, 2010 12:29am Apr 13, 2010 6:48pm | Edited Apr 14, 2010 12:29am
The Trading Athlete by Murphy and Hirschhorn.

The Trading Tribe by Ed Seykota

Winner Take All by Gallacher
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  • Apr 13, 2010 9:44pm Apr 13, 2010 9:44pm
"Zurich axioms"
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  • Apr 14, 2010 4:30am Apr 14, 2010 4:30am
Lefevre "Reminiscence of stock operator".
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  • Apr 14, 2010 11:10am Apr 14, 2010 11:10am
Not purely a trading book, but describes the process of tuning into and focusing on the moment without concern about the past or worry about the future.

"Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" by Csikszentmihalyi
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  • Apr 14, 2010 4:57pm Apr 14, 2010 4:57pm
Quoting Lionstrike
Bird Watching in Lion Country sounds like a marketing scam or disinformation. If you want to read a book by a real trader read "Pit Bull" by Marty Schwartz. Just as not every thread in a forum is designed to help you succeed, not every book is either.
I suggest you don't judge a book by its cover only and also not an ebook by its "sales letter".


Xaron, who first mentioned Bird Watching in Lion Country in this thread has based his success as winner of the Forex Street Trader of the Year contest in 2009 solely on Bird Watching in Lion Country (although he was at the time of the competition also a mentoring client of the author.)

In the ebook genre there is nothing that comes close to Bird Watching in Lion Country - Forex Trading Explained. In fact there is statistically overwhelming evidence that this book beats most anything hands down as a practical guide to forex trading for real people with real jobs, real dreams and real hopes to make it as traders. It is especially powerful for those consistent losers who try every possible version technical analysis only intra day trading and fail time and again.

I recommend you read it before commenting on it!
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  • Apr 15, 2010 5:34pm Apr 15, 2010 5:34pm
I found another worthwhile title in my library that I thought I'd share. "The Ruminator - A Collection of Thoughts and Suggestions on Contrary Thinking" by Humphrey Neill. In my view, it's a good book with a lot of good information that can be used in the markets... I hope some of these titles can help; I've tried to share some titles which have helped me personally, and I know are not simply amateurish trash.
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  • Apr 15, 2010 6:28pm Apr 15, 2010 6:28pm
definitely, van tharpe "trading your way to financial freedom". it gives a simple probabilty based approach as to how to look at the market. especially the example in the book on probabilty and pulling colored marbles from a bag. keep it simple let your winners be larger than your losers thats how i found my success.
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  • May 3, 2010 2:56am May 3, 2010 2:56am
"An Arbitrage Guide to Financial Markets" by Robert Dubil

This is a broad overview of how arbitrage is used in the spot, forwards, and options markets. In the same vein as Harris' "Trading and Exchanges" but shorter, more didactic. A useful read for the newbie trader.
"If The Fool persists in his Folly he will become wise." - William Blake
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  • Aug 31, 2010 2:01am Aug 31, 2010 2:01am
Quoting TJPLD
No book will make you a profitable trader.
Do your own stuff. Copying will not work.
If you need to learn the basics you can
find a quick summary somewhere on the net.
It's not that much.
Everybody learns in different ways. If you don't have any other way to learn books are great. Until you get into specific strategies, they all say the same thing. Know what you are going to do before you place a trade. Know why you are trading a specific currency pair, when to enter, where to set a stop, and how much profit to go for. If you don't know exactly what you are doing, the market will take your money.
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