alright, so i'm getting a few days off work coming up in a month or so, and am looking for some recommendations on technically challenging but immediately useful books in trading -- maybe we could pool ideas & get everyone a list? i feel like many books in finance/trading could be classified into the dimensions of: (a) Technically challenging material vs. Non-challenging/easy to read - eg. stuff you could really dig deep like a textbook vs. something like a novel to be flipped over for general ideas (b) Immediately useful vs. Non-"immediately useful" - eg. immediately useful would be ideas that are well-defined, empirically solid and described in such a way that could be directly applied w/o having to peel back layers of assumptions in toy models so there would be 4 broad categories and some examples for could be 1. Technically challenging, Immediately useful - Options Futures Other Derivatives (John Hull), Fabozzi textbooks, Natenberg volatility 2. Non-challenging, Immediately useful - Market wizards, Reminiscences, Trading & Exchanges, Graham and Dodd Security Analysis, Most newswires would be here probably 3. Technically challenging, Non-"immediately useful" - a few of those Springer continuous time finance books, lol 4. Non-challenging, Non-"immediately useful" - marketing materials by online gurus, etc More ideas for category #1 above would be good, gotta get a workout in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_options_valuation Taking this topic to eBay Books will fill your mailbox with regular "presents"...
Any of the books by John Ehlers: Rocket Science for Traders Cybernetic Analysis Cycle Analytics Ehlers work is about modeling the market as cycles plus noise, using tools from the field of digital signals processing. Some people are of the philosophy that anything from the physics realm applied to the world of finance is a severe misapplication of physics. That is for you to decide.
On the fixed income side, there is also Tuckman and Jha - both are very useful if you dabble in these markets.
If you plan to read technical/challenging articles/books then i will point you directly to financial academic research. You may try SSRN and search directly what you are interested in ... Or alternatively, you can try Quantedia, which has a curated algo/quant trading research sorted based on various criterias ...
If the authors had the end of all knowledge, why would they write a book on it? Cause "they" want to help people? What a crock of shite. Still comes down to your own searching and trying thousand avenues before you find something you understand in your own way. Go to college library, read book on physics on how to intercept missiles(price).
why read books when you can get similar info on net for free? there is a treasure to be found in trading.....but you have to search....it took me 20 years...it took a man 25 years of searching for a sunken treasure in a ship to find it if you are not hungry for success..but are blinded by greed......then look some where else