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This here is full of interviews with traders and investors who are in charge of gobs of money and are good enough at what they do to wind up interviewed in a book like this. I read most but not all of this book, it's good. There is a second version too, updated. I think this one was written in the late 80's. There were a couple of "oh shit!!" moments while reading this, lots of good information tucked into the interviews. THICK. <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/sweendoglongisle/Picture446_17Dec05.jpg" alt="" /> This is that "Rule The Freakin Markets" joint that I mentioned in an earlier post. This is the hardcover, it's in a paperback version now I think. I recommend this for a beginner, real easy to read and good information that you can put to use right away. I made money off this, and referred back to it a couple times including this week. <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/sweendoglongisle/Picture447_17Dec05.jpg" alt="" /> This one is about finding stocks that move in price ranges and buying at the bottom or shorting at the tops of the range while it rolls along. I was disappointed in the purchase to be honest, don't buy it. <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/sweendoglongisle/Picture448_17Dec05.jpg" alt="" /> "Trading for a Living" is advanced and a bit expensive. It's basically a textbook, actually I think there is a workbook that goes along with it which I didn't buy. It's well worth the price, but not the first thing you want to read if you are just getting started. You have to be REALLY into this shit to read this and have a working knowledge of how things work to be able to get through it. <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/sweendoglongisle/Picture449_17Dec05.jpg" alt="" /> These two are BIBLES for some people. Same author for both, I read the blue covered one when I was young and it's the one you want to read before the other one. These books should be read with a copy of the Investors Business Daily newspaper at hand, as they are written by the publisher of that paper and they kind of go hand in hand. You'll see what I mean if you go this route. This is not for buy-and-hold and forget about it investors, it is for people who want to move money around and be disciplined about it. I highly recommend these books. Blue cover first though. Read it with a highliter too, there is so much good info in here you'll want to mark it as you go so you can refer back to it. For real, these are bibles for a lot of people out there. You need these. <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/sweendoglongisle/Picture450_17Dec05.jpg" alt="" /> Options are risky as shit and you need elephant balls to trade them. These are advanced books. If you want to go balls out and have some money you can stand risking (I lost 100% on one investment in options last year, but also made over 100% 7 times this year as well), options or futures are the way to go. I think there are books that are more suitable for beginners though, but I'm not up on them. <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/sweendoglongisle/Picture451_17Dec05.jpg" alt="" /> This was a good one, I never finished it though I kind of skipped around in it to chapters that I felt I needed to read first. It's a primer on how the markets have changed and how the old "buy-and-hold" strategy does not really fit anymore. Also discusses how the internet has changed things, basically lays out how investing has changed for the mid-2000's. Pretty good. I heard the author interviewed on the radio and he was interesting, that's what made me buy it. I should look at it some more. <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/sweendoglongisle/Picture452_17Dec05.jpg" alt="" /> The book on the left is about buying the companies that have their own corporate insiders (CEOs, directors, people like that) buying shares. You can find that information easily, but honestly I just summed up the book in one sentence. It's a waste of time. They say the same shit in every chapter but word it differently. If a CEO has faith in his own company and is buying up shares, that company is worth a look. Fuck that book, you don't need it. The one on the right is good, sums up the philosophies of a few top traders including Jesse Livermore and William O'Neil. Good, and cheap and thin too. Fast read and worth the price because it might lead you in a direction you didn't know about. <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/sweendoglongisle/Picture453_17Dec05.jpg" alt="" /> These are discussed in the thread already. On the left is a printing of Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (there are many versions, it's a classic) and on the right is Extraordinary Popular blahblahblah. Both are mentioned above, in posts by myself and FadedGlory. At some point in your education you have to read these books or you are soft. <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/sweendoglongisle/Picture454_17Dec05.jpg" alt="" /> I just started reading this and it's good so far. Broke out the highliter for it, only 50 pages in though. I like it. Breaks down how to catch price swings. <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/sweendoglongisle/Picture455_17Dec05.jpg" alt="" /> These are good too, but I just started reading them also and am only about 100 pages into them. Just One Thing is a bunch of wealthy dudes dropping one nugget on you that they feel is crucial knowledge to have. It's a good book, but not for freshmen. More for seniors. The other one, Ordinary People Extraordinary Profits; I broke out the highliter on that too. It's technical though, and not the first book you want to read. But keep an eye on it for the future. <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/sweendoglongisle/Picture456_17Dec05.jpg" alt="" /> I got some more books on my work truck and a few loaned out to some folks, but I think there are enough here for you to look into. I got another post planned for tomorrow which will help some of you dudes also. <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/sweendoglongisle/sweenstand.jpg" alt="" />

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