The PDF useful sources thread

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GMO Quarterly Letter from April 2011 focusing on commodities. This is a macro view kind of letter so don't expect any trading tips.

Origins of Trend Trading

Here is and excellent read that deserves my 5-stars rating. It's one of the basic foundations of my trading philosophy.

15 pages... read it thoroughly several times. There is a priceless lesson in there


(excellent thread Bug, I've been subscribed since the beginning

Zurich Axioms, which is one of Larry Williams favorite books, a book all about liquidity( i'm still working on this one), a paper on institutional orderflow and a really cool book about how to be a futures trader.

Glad you like it. And thanks for the contribution.

New pdf from Rogoff and and Reinhart, authors of the book This Time Is Different. I am posting this pdf here because I'm getting a wee bit tired of people saying that the 'new normal' is something PIMCO thought of first. It's not. They just looked at past history, just like Rogoff and Reinhart did, and made appropriate conclusions (John Mauldin did the same). The main lesson here is that banking crises always result in lackluster economic growth. If this is a topic that interests you, have a look at Richard Koo's work on Japan and balance sheet recessions.

New pdf focusing on the benefits of exercise. There will be more pdfs on this topic in the future. Exercise is very important, but statistics show people are getting fatter and fatter. Some of the negative effects of not moving yourself and accumulating fat are not acute and don't require medical treatment, but they are equally destructive as they wreak havoc with your brain (memory, mood, decision making skills etc.). This is an issue I will keep on bringing up via various new pdfs.

PS.
Although the pdf list a few other tips than just moving yourself, the scientifically proven benefits of exercising are powerful enough to overpower everything else on the list. Eating slowly might be a new and fun experience for some, but getting your heart pumping oxygen into every nook and cranny of your body is something that only exercising will be able to do.

This book doesn't contain any trading strategies but it is about psychological side of trading.

.....if a market’s price is going to make an exceptional move in one direction or another, it must first make a moderate move in that direction, leading to the conclusion that if an initiation can be made at that moderate level, the remaining portion of the trend can be followed for a significant period of time thereafter and liquidated at a profit.

Price breakout (phase change), pullback (entry) continuation (momentum) of initial break (follow the trend)

Some cool stuff on hedge funds and a few papers that relate to the impact of the moves of these type of big players. I have been focusing on some past post's by guys like grkfx, Razorjack and Scotty B etc... trying to figure what are some highly probable causes and scenario's of big moves in FX and other markets.

The law of charts- Joe Ross.

edit- Stole the TTE from Vantage's thread.


p.s.-
I have included Peaks and Troughs by Martin Pring.
And a pdf by Greg Capra that in my opinion is a very helpful study for those concerned with swing analysis.

The teachings of two of the best traders on ff, FTI and Redsword11.
Plus, Art of war.

Traders, you may have to visit their respective threads; FTI's 'Technical Analysis Fallacy' and Redsword11's 'Price is everything' for thorough understanding.
Its worth the effort in my humble opinion.

Cant attach price is everything.pdf here due to its massive size. Heres the link though.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=99XRL9SJ

p.s. Thanks for starting the thread, Bug.. much appreciated.

Another cool read about predatory trading.

A book that I think is out of print now, but FxSurfer has mentioned that it is A+ stuff, and a paper on how mutual funds are sometimes the prey of hedge funds.

Oh shit! Great find on the PDF and thanks for sharing it with us. I've got a copy but, I doubt that many others had it - until now! A real gem; not an easy read and it's difficult to figure out the logic and applicability of it until perhaps a few reads through. Hands down Steidlmayer's greatest work. A major problem - perhaps the main problem - that people have in the markets is that they have no idea, really what the function of markets really are. This book helps to clarify things on a very fundamental level.

Thanks again!

Very cool response ,thank you, especially coming from the guy that pointed it out, thanks FXSurfer! I really, really appreciate the people on this forum that have shared the material that lit their path for them. FF is a really cool, almost contradictory blend of people just down to share idea's and develop their capitalist/trader acumen, and that keeps me interested!

With that said, i have a few more cool things under the 1.9 MB limit.

The first is the classic Mark Douglas Trading In The Zone, the second is about Wall Street's new top investor's and the third is a quick run down of predatory trading using a slide presentation ( cool concept, but difficult to apply ). I wish I knew how to edit a PDF down to 1.9 MB, then I could upload a few really hard to find things.

simple but valuable points. thanks for this post

you could zip them into chunks of 1.8mb files. for example, 7-zip has the final archiving option of "split to volumes".

I'm posting a paper by Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff titled This Time Is Different (it was later turned into a book, so if you prefer that, go to Amazon). It's a fairly important review of what authors themselves call 'eight centuries of financial folly'. Basically it's a review of eight centuries of sovereign debt and defaults. The reason for posting it is because I'm sick and tired of hearing people blame the fiat system for the faults of government while acting like the gold standard is the end all be all solution - it doesn't even come close to that. It is never the system that has caused governments to go into debt, but reckless spending (in the past debts were usually racked up due to wars, now it's transfer payments and inefficient allocation of resources). As a super-brief summary of the whole document, I present to you figure 1 from the paper.

Also by Carmen Reinhart:
The Liquidation of Government Debt w. M. Belen Sbrancia (overview of financial repression)
Growth in a Time of Debt w. Ken Rogoff
The Aftermath of Financial Crises w. Ken Rogoff

This is a really simple and very useful diagram that someone here at FF posted about order flow, but i forget who originally posted it.

This is a really good template to begin modeling order flow trades with, so i thought it would make a good post.

I also posted the Cliff notes version of Macro and Micro economics, it's a pretty good over view

Not a PDF but, IMO the best chapter fr. Human Action:

The Chimera of Nonmarket Prices