Books that have influenced you the most

trading:

1. education of a speculator--- niederhoffer

2. practical speculation---- niederhoffer/kenner

3. market wizards 1, 2--- schwager

4. woulda, coulda, shoulda---- cotttle

5. winner take all--- gallagher


non- trading---yet relevant to my trading:

1. techgnosis--- davis

2. 500 year delta-- taylor

3. envy----- schoek

4. the ethics of redistribution--- deJouvel



surfer

 

Trade your Way to Financial Freedom by Van K. Tharp.

I am through about a 1/3 and it is a great book, check out the reviews on amazon.com

 

I actually found a use for my copy of that piece of sh*t of a book. A Monitor stand!

 

http://eagletrader.blogspot.com/

List on the left column.. Cheers

 

number 4 for me

 

1. Reminiscenses of a Stock Operator, Edwin Lefevre

2. Techniques of a Professional Commodity Chart Analyst, Arthur Sklarew

3. Wheat Market, Fred Lowell

4. THE MANAGEMENT OF BOND INVESTMENTS AND TRADING OF DEBT, Dimitris Chorafas

5. An Embedded Software Primer, David E. Simon

 

Equalizer,
Why did you not like it?

 

Maybe not the one that has had the most influence, but certainly a good one to read:

Zen and the Art of Poker, by Larry Phillips
ISBN-10: 0452281261

There are innumerable parallels between poker and trading (as there are between sports and trading). For a superb analysis, see Brett Steenbargen today:
http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/

 

Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

 

Good One.

More Specifically for me, The Book of Proverbs.

And (though You guys hate his guts) Covels 1st Book, Trend Followers.