POLL: If you had to pick one trading book... Note: These books were selected from the Elitetrader/books as among the high rated books to demonstrate quality and having sufficient total votes to demonstrate interest. As there is only 10 max choices in a survey, not all could be included.
Those books are decent but you're missing some real gems like: "The Practical Speculator" by Neiderhoffer "When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management" by Lowenstein
Today: Dynamic Hedging - Taleb Five years ago: Trader Vic Twenty years ago: Probably the single most important book to read as a novice: http://www.amazon.com/Technical-Ana...6813547?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193889492&sr=8-1 When you come to the market from every angle, and understand what piece goes where, it is when you begin to make money. "...We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time..." - T.S. Eliot. It is only now that I understand, twenty years later, what the value of Murphys' book is, where I started. nitro