All Time Best Books on Trading
If you had to pick one book and one book only that was your favorite on the topic of trading, which one would it be?
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Straight to Hell by John LeFevre is an awesome book
Why I Left Goldman Sachs
Trading in the zone by Michael Douglas is often overlooked, but definitely a great book on traders mindset and mentality.
Fun read: The Buy Side
Great read: Margin of Safety by Seth Klarman
Article: https://www.propublica.org/article/all-the-magnetar-trade-how-one-hedge…</a">The Magnetar Trade, super interesting read
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre
>“Another lesson I learned early is that there is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market to-day has happened before and will happen again. I've never forgotten that. I suppose I really manage to remember when and how it happened. The fact that I remember that way is my way of capitalizing experience.” ― Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
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new market wizards
by jack schwager
Flash Boys, The Big Short
Rogue Trader: How I Brought Down Barings Bank and Shook the Financial World
Rogue Trader, was the movie any good?
All in all yes. The movie definitely comes off as cheaply made but the plot was awesome. It's free on YouTube.
There's only one: Reminiscences
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