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11 books match
Jack D. Schwager
Jack Schwager spent over twenty years as a director of futures research at leading Wall Street firms and later managed hedge fund portfolios. He interviews top traders across markets and draws out shared principles: risk control, discipline and adapting to markets. For beginners, as an entry point to trading literature.
Edwin Lefèvre
Edwin Lefèvre was a financial journalist who served as financial editor of Harper's Weekly. His thinly fictionalized account of speculator Jesse Livermore is a classic trading memoir, with lessons on speculation, crowd behavior and risk that still apply. For beginners and anyone interested in market history.
John J. Murphy
John Murphy is a former technical analyst for CNBC and has served as director of Merrill Lynch's Technical Analysis Futures Division. This comprehensive reference covers chart analysis, indicators and intermarket analysis. For intermediate readers who want one complete technical-analysis text.
Jack D. Schwager
The second volume of Jack Schwager's interviews with top traders, this time including option traders. Schwager is a long-time futures researcher and hedge fund portfolio manager. It covers how traders manage risk and think about markets. For beginners who enjoyed Market Wizards.
Steve Nison
Steve Nison, CMT, introduced Japanese candlestick charting to Western traders, and this is his core book on it. You learn the patterns and how to read them alongside other tools. For intermediate readers of charts.
Adam Grimes
Adam Grimes is a trader who has served as CIO of Waverly Advisors, an asset management and risk advisory firm, and his methods rest on statistical and quantitative research. He gives an evidence-minded treatment of technical analysis, market structure and trading process. For intermediate readers who want rigor rather than pattern lists.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Taleb, a former trader and risk manager who became a professor of risk engineering at New York University, explains why rare, extreme events dominate outcomes. That idea is central to how option risk works. For any reader, no trading background needed.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Taleb's earlier and more market-focused book on luck versus skill in trading results, drawn from nearly two decades as a quantitative trader. For beginners and anyone who judges strategies by past results.
Charles Kirkpatrick II, Julie Dahlquist
Written by Charles Kirkpatrick II, CMT, a two-time winner of the Market Technicians Association's Charles H. Dow Award and an adjunct finance professor at Brandeis, and Julie Dahlquist, PhD, CMT, editor of the Journal of Technical Analysis. It presents technical analysis as a discipline, with academic evidence for and against it. For advanced readers who want a rigorous, textbook-level treatment.
Jack D. Schwager
Jack Schwager spent over twenty years as a director of futures research at leading Wall Street firms and later managed hedge fund portfolios. He interviews top traders across markets and draws out shared principles: risk control, discipline and adapting to markets. For beginners, as an entry point to trading literature.
Edwin Lefèvre
Edwin Lefèvre was a financial journalist who served as financial editor of Harper's Weekly. His thinly fictionalized account of speculator Jesse Livermore is a classic trading memoir, with lessons on speculation, crowd behavior and risk that still apply. For beginners and anyone interested in market history.
John J. Murphy
John Murphy is a former technical analyst for CNBC and has served as director of Merrill Lynch's Technical Analysis Futures Division. This comprehensive reference covers chart analysis, indicators and intermarket analysis. For intermediate readers who want one complete technical-analysis text.
Jack D. Schwager
The second volume of Jack Schwager's interviews with top traders, this time including option traders. Schwager is a long-time futures researcher and hedge fund portfolio manager. It covers how traders manage risk and think about markets. For beginners who enjoyed Market Wizards.
Steve Nison
Steve Nison, CMT, introduced Japanese candlestick charting to Western traders, and this is his core book on it. You learn the patterns and how to read them alongside other tools. For intermediate readers of charts.
Adam Grimes
Adam Grimes is a trader who has served as CIO of Waverly Advisors, an asset management and risk advisory firm, and his methods rest on statistical and quantitative research. He gives an evidence-minded treatment of technical analysis, market structure and trading process. For intermediate readers who want rigor rather than pattern lists.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Taleb, a former trader and risk manager who became a professor of risk engineering at New York University, explains why rare, extreme events dominate outcomes. That idea is central to how option risk works. For any reader, no trading background needed.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Taleb's earlier and more market-focused book on luck versus skill in trading results, drawn from nearly two decades as a quantitative trader. For beginners and anyone who judges strategies by past results.
Charles Kirkpatrick II, Julie Dahlquist
Written by Charles Kirkpatrick II, CMT, a two-time winner of the Market Technicians Association's Charles H. Dow Award and an adjunct finance professor at Brandeis, and Julie Dahlquist, PhD, CMT, editor of the Journal of Technical Analysis. It presents technical analysis as a discipline, with academic evidence for and against it. For advanced readers who want a rigorous, textbook-level treatment.