Category: Trading Book Reviews

Books are a big part of any trader’s education. With that in mind, here is a collection of trading book reviews. Hopefully they help you make a good buying (or not buying) decision.

Book Review: Bond Girl

Got an interest in Wall Street and want some fairly light-weight fiction to read? If so, this might be a book worth getting.

Book Review: Broken Markets

A critical look at the actions and impacts of high frequency trading in the US stock market with thoughts on how to fix it.

Book Review: Hedge Fund Market Wizards

This latest addition to the the Market Wizards series is a good read no matter where you are on the spectrum of market experience.

Book Review: Currency Trading in the Forex and Futures Markets

A pretty good job of outlining the different ways one can trade the currency market, though with a strong bias

Book Review: Buy and Hedge

If you are a stock market trader/investor, this book is worth reading to gain perspective on how you can reduce return volatility.

Book Review: The Option Trader’s Workbook

This book could give you a good working knowledge of options trading and strategies, but you need to be ready to put in the effort.

Book Review: Currency Trading for Dummies

A very expansive look at trading the foreign exchange market for newbies

Book Review: Laughing at Wall Street

A look at how individuals can make really big money in stocks playing in areas where they have an advantage over the institutions.

Book Review: The Inner Voice of Trading

This books takes a good look at trader emotional intelligence and how it, combined with trading to your personality, is critical.

Book Review: Mastering Market Timing

An excellent educational resources for learning how markets form tops and bottoms and act during trending periods.

Book Review: Time the Markets

This book takes a look at using fundamental inputs in trading system design and development, though is a bit limited.

Book Review: George Lindsay and the Art of Technical Analysis

George Lindsay was a prominent newsletter writer in the 60s and 70s. This book describes his primary analysis techniques.

Book Review: The Global Economic System

Excellent discussion of market liquidity and how it plays a part in major economic events like the financial crisis.

Book Review: Trend Commandments

An intense look at the psychology and mentality of the trend following approach to trading

Book Review: Investing with Volume Analysis

Learn just about everything there is to know about incorporating volume in your trading or investing

Book Review: Trade the Trader

This book suggests that applying basic technical analysis methods is no longer sufficient

Book Review: Nerds on Wall Street

A pretty expansive look at the history of computerized methods applied in the financial markets.

Book Review: Trading on Corporate Earnings News

Stock market traders will definitely want to pick up a copy of this book!

Book Review: Profiting With Condor Options

Condor option strategies have become popular and this book takes a look.

Book Review: The Great Deleveraging

Discussion, data, and analysis of economic and stock market patterns

Book Review: Capital Offense

Focused on the array of personalities in and around the financial crisis.

Book Review: The Complete Trading Course

A front-to-back approach to applying technical analysis to trading

Book Review: Harmonic Trading, Volume One

A comprehensive and systematic look at Fibonacci based technical analysis and trading

Book Review: Trading Realities by Jeff Augen

Laying out some option strategies that could be used along with or in place of holding stocks

Book Review: On the Brink by Hank Paulson

Basically, a diary of Hank Paulson’s time as Treasury Secretary during the financial crisis

Book Review: Buy Don’t Hold

A practical text focused on the application of asset allocation looking at the market trend status

Book Review: Technical Analysis in the FX Markets

Interviews on forex analysis with 13 market analysts from around the world

Book Review: Popes and Bankers by Jack Cashill

May be of interest to those who like history and/or are interested in how we got where we are

Book Review: A Trader’s First Book on Commodities

A pretty solid introduction to futures trading

Book Review: Trading From Your Gut by Curtis Faith

Integrating the right-brain instincts and intuition you develop as a trader

Book Review: Making Sense of the Dollar

Ten myths about the dollar, international trade and related economics and politics

Book Review: Reading Minds and Markets

Primarily about asset allocation – picking the best place(s) to put money to work

Book Review: Trend Following

An indepth study of a trading philosophy

Book Review: Essentials of Foreign Exchange Trading

A pretty good basic overview and description of the retail forex market

Book Review: The Daily Trading Coach by Brett Steenbarger

Pretty much every trader can find useful lessons in this book

Book Review: The Motley Fool Million Dollar Portfolio

Stuff that’s been said before many times in other places

Book Review: Fooled by Randomness

People are fooled into believing what is random has meaningful causality

Book Review: Financial Shock, by Mark Zandi

A look back at the causes and drivers of the financial crisis

Book Review: The (Mis)Behavior of Markets

For those with a desire to understand how prices move, this is a good book.

Book Review: How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

A discussion of the various trades the author made over about 6 years

Book Review: Way of the Turtle

A deep discussion of the philosophy behind the Turtle trend following methodology

Book Review: American Sucker

A really interesting perspective on the thought process of the individual investor

Book Review: The Age of Fallibility by George Soros

As much a philosophical treatise as an exploration of global affairs

Book Review: The Power of Gold

Tracks the use of gold from a monetary perspective through most of human civilization

Book Review: The Complete TurtleTrader

Tells the story of the Turtles from selection to where they are today

Book Review: An American Hedge Fund

An autobiographical look at major trading success and giving it all back.

Book Review: Markets in Profile

A book that can make a huge difference in the way you look at the markets

Book Review: Enhancing Trader Performance by Brett Steenbarger

A book about developing trading expertise

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