nokomisjeff has a great list here: http://masteroftheuniverse.wordpress.com/books-to-download/ Most of these books are courtesy of Gutenberg.org and have to be downloaded. If yâall have any extra links for me to add, drop me a note. The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek Hidden Treasures, or Why Some Succeed While Others Fail by Harry Lewis âSuccessfull Stock Speculationâ Butler âFundamentals of Prosperityâ Babson âLetter from Self-Made Merchant to his Sonâ by George Horace Lorimer âThe Tipsterâ Edwin Lefevre âAnthemâ Ayn Rand âBartleby the Scrivenerâ Melville âThe Pitâ Frank Norris âDon Quixoteâ Cervantes âReminiscencesâ Le Fevre âTheory of the Leisure Classâ Veblen âChance and Luckâ Proctor Speculation on the Stock and Produce Exchange of the United States by Emery Principles of Political Economy by Roscher The Market-Place by Harold Ferderic Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange by John Francis Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay Everybodyâs Guide to Money Matters by William Cotton The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Frenzied Finance by Thomas William Lawson The Guilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner The Villainy of Stock Jobbers Detected by Daniel Dafoe The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Twenty Eight Years in Wall Street by Henry Clews Random Reminiscences of Men and Events by John D. Rockefeller Beat the Market The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin Complete published works by Sir Francis Galton My Life and Loves by Frank Harris How to Trade in Stocks by Jesse Livermore 45 Years in Wall Street by W.D. Gann Written by masteroftheuniverse January 4, 2009 at 3:37 am
Non-Trading books that every trader should read ----------------------- "The Gift of Fear". (basically, discover intuition and why we should embrace intuition). "Blink" Although there is one short chapter which mentions trading the book is about gut instinct. While we all would like to live and die on gut instinct or intuition, it is real and has a basis in knowledge and experience. Pretty cool subject and a refreshing read from the ordinary finance genre.
"The Talent Code "is good http://www.amazon.com/Talent-Code-G...684X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1301008827&sr=8-1
Understanding how the world really works is the first key to grasping the markets. With this said, the 3 books that influenced me the most and continue to in this regard are 1. Techgnosis 2. The fourth turning 3. The 500 year delta Enjoy!