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Page 1 lists fifteen books which influenced Deepak the most.
See also Fifteen Books
Page 2 lists another fifteen books which are among the most recommended and popular titles on the subject.
Page 3 onward are several other informative books on markets, loosely ordered by subject and author.
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Unknown Market Wizards: The best traders you've never heard of
By Jack D. Schwager
Investing, Markets, Story, Trading
This is the newest of the Wizard books by Jack Schwager published in November 2020. It has another fascinating collection of superlative market success stories, but with a difference. These are the strategies of individual traders who have accumulated a fortune, and are generally not known to the world at large, while the earlier books featured mostly brilliant - but well-known - fund managers. Most of the traders featured in the new book have notched up extraordinary returns - such as that of a trader who averaged a 337% annual return over a 13-year period.
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Market Wizards
By Jack D. Schwager
Story, Markets, Investing, Trading
The first of the popular Wizard books by Jack Schwager. All these books consist of interviews which the author conducted with top traders he chose. This book features interviews with many legendary names. The list of wizards interviewed is : Michael Marcus, Bruce Kovner, Richard Dennis, Paul Tudor Jones, Gary Bielfeldt, Ed Seykota, Larry Hite, Michael Steinhardt, William O’Neil, David Ryan, Marty Schwartz, James B. Rogers Jr., Mark Weinstein, Brian Gelber, Tom Baldwin, Tony Saliba and Dr. Van K. Tharp.
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The New Market Wizards
By Jack D. Schwager
Story, Markets, Investing, Trading
This book is a sequel to the popular Market Wizards, and if you enjoyed reading the first of the four Wizard books, you will enjoy this one too!
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Hedge Fund Market Wizards
By Jack D. Schwager
Story, Markets, Investing, Trading
The fourth of the Wizard books, Hedge Fund Market Wizards is more technical than its predecessors, and will appeal to those looking for finer detail in trading strategies.
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Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets
By John J. Murphy
Technical Analysis
John Murphy is an American financial market analyst, and is considered the father of inter-market technical analysis. He has authored several books including Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets. He later revised and broadened this book into Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets. (Wikipedia)
Those two books have been the entry point into technical analysis for several traders.
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Trading Systems and Methods
By Perry J. Kaufman
Markets, Trading
Perry J. Kaufman is an American systematic trader, index developer, and quantitative financial theorist. He is considered a leading expert in the development of fully algorithmic trading programs. Beginning as a “rocket scientist” in the aerospace industry, Kaufman worked on the navigation and control systems for the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, the predecessor of the Hubble Space Telescope. Moreover, he was involved in the development of navigation systems for Project Gemini which were later used for Apollo missions. (Wikipedia)
This book integrates statistical knowledge with the development and testing of trading systems, and is a very informative read for those looking for mathematical solutions, rather than assertions. It is more quantitative than its predecessor Smarter Trading.
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Smarter Trading
By Perry J. Kaufman
Trading
Perry J. Kaufman is an American systematic trader, index developer, and quantitative financial theorist. He is considered a leading expert in the development of fully algorithmic trading programs. (Wikipedia)
This book provides a qualitative framework for designing trading systems, especially on how to make them more robust and deal with price shocks. It also covers risk, and how to test a trading system.
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How to Day Trade for a Living
By Dr Andrew Aziz
Technical Analysis, Trading
This is a very good and popular book for beginners to understand and practice day trading, and has been written by a chemical engineer. Among other techniques a handful of technical analysis methods are also explained. There are sections on risk and money management, as well as on trading psychology.
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Evidence-Based Technical Analysis
By David Aronson
Trading, Technical Analysis
The author divides Technical Analysis into subjective and objective, where only the latter can be tested. It then provides a statistical framework for testing these. A lot can be learned from this book for testing trading systems. It also provides the results of tests Aronson conducted on the S&P 500 using several technical analysis formulae.
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How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market
By Nicolas Darvas
Story, Investing, Trading
Nicolas Darvas was a dancer, self-taught investor and author. After failing initially, be developed a Box trading pattern which enabled him to make a fortune on the market. This popular book is an autobiographical account of his forays into the market, and an explanation of his Box method.
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Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom
By Van K. Tharp
Technical Analysis, Trading
This is a popular book for traders who use technical analysis, but do not want to explore the mathematical side of system trading too deeply - making it perhaps a little easier to understand than the more quantitative books.
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Campaign Trading
By Jack Sweeney
Trading
Former editor of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazine. His MAE (maximum adverse excursion) and MFE (maximum favourable excursion) are explained well in this book. These are techniques which help in deciding on stop losses and minimum targets based on past price behaviour of the stock, rather than charts - or some other arbitrary measure.
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Trade Like a Hedge Fund
By James Altucher
Trading
James Altucher is an American hedge-fund manager, author, podcaster and entrepreneur who has founded or cofounded over 20 companies. He has published 20 books and he is a contributor to publications including The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and The Huffington Post. (Wikipedia)
Trade like a hedge fund outlines twenty altogether different strategies employed by hedge funds, thereby providing useful insights for traders.
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Trader Vic II: Principles of Professional Speculation
By Victor Sperandeo
Trading
Victor Sperandeo , known as “Trader Vic”, is a US trader, index developer, and financial commentator based in Grapevine, Texas. He serves as the President and CEO of Alpha Financial Technologies, LLC (AFT), is a founding partner of EAM Partners L.P., and serves as the President and CEO of its general partner, EAM Corporation.
Sperandeo traded in commodities, particularly in the energy and metals sectors. He is renowned for having 'predicted' the stock market crash of 1987 during an extensive interview in the September 21 issue of Barron's; on October 16, one trading session prior to Black Monday, Sperandeo shorted the Dow and made 300% during a day the DJIA fell by over 20%.
In this book he talks about his trading philosophy and uses a wide variety of methods - ranging from technical to fundamental analysis to options and day-trading, and goes into far greater detail than the preceding Trader Vic book.
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Practical Speculation
By Victor Niederhoffer and Laurel Kenner
Markets, Trading
Victor Niederhoffer is an American hedge fund manager, champion squash player, bestselling author and statistician. His investment funds provided high and consistent returns for several years, interspersed with dramatic failures in 1997 and 2007.
This book is something of a contrarian work, where he is critical about several conventional investment methods, and offers instead very different ways of looking at the market.
