How many books related to investing have you read?

Hey guys,

as there are around 30 to 50 must-reads about investing, trading or understanding business, I was wondering how you manage to get through all these books (with some of them having more than 500 pages). Do you have a routine to read at least one book per month or have you read all these well-known books at all? I find it difficult to find enough time for reading (especially time when your mind is fresh), having worked all day long.

 

In no particular order..

  1. Quantitative Trading by Ernest Chan
  2. Algorithmic Trading: Winning Strategies and Their Rationale by Ernest Chan
  3. Algorithmic Trading & DMA by Barry Johnson
  4. Automated Trading - Max Dama
  5. C# Programming
  6. Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip Fisher
  7. Market Wizards series by Jack Schwager
  8. An Introduction to Hedge Fund Strategies by Gregory Connor and Teo Lasarte
  9. Inside the House of Money by Steve Drobny
  10. Intelligent Investor by Warren Buffet (this is my least favorite. fuck this meme book)
  11. Option Pricing and Volatility by Sheldon Natenberg
  12. Heard on the Street by Timothy Crack
  13. Technical Analysis of Stock Trends by Robert D. Edwards and John Magee
  14. Vault S&T guide

I have PDFs of all of these, let me know if you want a copy of something

 

I got started with futures by going through all of FuturesTrader71's library of daily analysis and a few books on volume profiling. I've done very well in that arena. In terms of equity investing, I've read 3 books on options, 1 on dividend investing and the intelligent investor. I learned a lot from actually reading through a dividend investors blog, which was insightful. I pour most of my profits from trading into dividend stocks.

 
Best Response

I read less often now but when when I was real gung ho I'd usually make a habit of reading during any time I'd otherwise be doing something mindless/ wso, sports where my fave teams weren't playing, weekend mornings if I wasn't nursing a hangover, lunch breaks at work, flights, and so on. Not all inclusive, but here's some good ones (nothing surprising)

Interpretation of financial statements, both the graham and Buffett versions Margin of safety Intelligent investor Warren Buffett way Common stocks uncommon profits Jack Welch: winning & straight from the gut The most important thing Wiley's little book series: Chris Browne, Joel greenblatt All of David dremans books When markets collide (not the best unless you love macro stuff) The World is flat (Friedman) Snowball Fortunes formula A gift to my children (rogers) Value investing today (brandes) Sam Walton made in america All of Malcolm gladwells books Most of Paul j Meyers books Benjamin Graham on value investing Alchemy of finance (awful, awful book imo but Soros is brilliant so worth a shot)

 

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