What was the first book you read on anything related to Wall Street ?

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  1. My first was...

    Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco



    The greed /backstabbing holy moly !

    Probably one of the greatest books ever...and a page turner to boot !
     
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  2. "The Shy Stegosaurus Of Cricket Creek"... didn't understand the metaphor at the time.
     
  3. speedo

    speedo

    Yep....fun read. Was it AMEX's Robinson who Kravis told to wait for the board meeting to end and he would get millions for his patience?
     
  4. CALLumbus

    CALLumbus

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    I think this was my first... 17 years ago :D
     
  5. Baron

    Baron ET Founder

    As much as I hate to admit it:

     
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  6. drm7

    drm7

    Probably Beat the Street (and later One Up on Wall Street) by Peter Lynch. The investing lessons have held up fairly well, despite some of the critcisms. (Hint: It's 1000x times more complicated than "buy what you know," and he says as much in the books.)

     
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  7. truetype

    truetype

    Kahneman & Tversky's "Judgment Under Uncertainty...," and Tufte's "Visual Display...," both published in 1982



     
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  8. Were you already a trader at the time you read these books ?

    I only ask because these books are an interesting choice for being the first books you read . So I'm assuming you were already deep into trading.

    As for me,I loved reading up on the inner workings/ characters and shenanigans of wall street before I ever starting trading.
     
  9. Visaria

    Visaria

    i think it was Vic Sperandeo's first book:Methods of a Wall Street Master

     
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  10. I don't think I have ever read any book about Wall Street/trading,

    But some time around the mid/late 90's...I read general books about real estate investing and creating businesses.
    There were some very small crumbs of market wisdom in those books.

    What Really propelled and sky-rocketed me to this world of wall street/trading...was the Fall 2008 housing Market crisis.
    That was the main and only true triggering variable that made me open the door to this new world, and step inside it...and really explore it,
     
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