TA Book Thread

Here's my favorite 5:

• Advances in Financial Machine Learning by Marcos Lopez de Prado
• Method in Dealing in Stocks by Joseph Kerr
• How to Make Money in Stocks by William O'Neil
• Evidence-Based Technical Analysis by David Aronson
• Anchored VWAP by Brian Shannon

 

In terms of your list, I'm surprise Schwager or Kaufman's tomes are not included.

 

I've read 4 of the 5 Market Wizards books (just waiting for Unknown Wizards to release in paperback), and I've also read all the technical chapters of his Complete Guide to the Futures Markets. The technical chapters in that one are great for sure.

Which Kaufman do you mean? Don't think he's on my radar yet.

 

The Aronson sounds like it could help me, I'll check it out. Shannon's new Anchored VWAP book actually good?

 

I'm like 95/5 technical to fundamental where the 5 is basically make sure Powell isn't speaking today. I'm trying to find little ways to dial that down to 90/10, watching dollar strength, F/G Index etc. just to come up with some little sentiment edge going into the day. So far, it's only helped a little, and I'm not entirely sure it's worth the time/energy, but I'm still new enough to markets and generally curious to figure it's worth a shot.

 

“Trading Systems and Methods” by Perry Kaufman

 

Just read a few chapters of the Aronson. It's impressive, especially how thorough he is on cognitive biases, it's practically a work of philosophy at points, but the portions I read leave me with a question I've been struggling with for awhile now. He separates subjective from objective TA, and what I'm wondering is if they correspond neatly to discretionary and systematic, or if there isn't a 'happy medium' version of discretionary that is disciplined and rule-based but still allows for a lot of discretionary flexibility? Next few months with my 60/40 discretionary to systematic system is gonna answer that for me I guess.

 

I'll list the ones that made the post impact on me.

- The Richard D. Wyckoff Method of Trading and Investing in Stocks: A Course of Instruction in Stock Market Science and Technique
- Trades About To Happen by David Weis
- The Art and Science of Technical Analysis by Adam Grimes
- The Technical Analysis Course by Thomas Meyers

 

I don't know any of these, thanks, I'll check them out.

 

They are great? That means you are trading with those and made tons of $$$? Otherwise why are they great?