 | A Beginner's Guide to Short Term Trading: Maximize Your Profits in 3 Days to 3 Weeks by Toni Turner
Buy new: $11.32 / Used from: $3.00 Good overview.
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 | Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading by Alexander Elder
Buy new: $38.53 / Used from: $19.95 Great mechanics for trend trading.
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 | Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline and a Winning Attitude by Mark Douglas
Buy new: $31.50 / Used from: $21.99 Great message - Stay Present!
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 | Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques, Second Edition by Steve Nison
Buy new: $58.82 / Used from: $41.88 Most candlestick books are similar. I'm not a big fan of candlesticks. One of these books showed that the probability of accuracy is in the 48.xx% to 52.xx% range. Pretty slim odds.
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 | How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times and Bad, Fourth Edition by William O'Neil
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $6.41 This guy must be smart, as the founder of Investor's Business Daily, but this book is a tough read. Lots of charts, but difficult to implement. Maybe I don't have the trained eye. I have to squint to see the opportunities!
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 | High Probability trading by Marcel Link
Buy new: $25.51 / Used from: $16.88 Good step by step learning process. Covers the basics. Ends with system trading.
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 | High Probability Trading Strategies: Entry to Exit Tactics for the Forex, Futures, and Stock Markets (Wiley Trading) by Robert C. Miner
Buy new: $41.17 / Used from: $34.33 Not my favorite. Uses the wave theory of which I'm not a big fan.
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 | Chart Your Way To Profits: The Online Trader's Guide to Technical Analysis (Wiley Trading) by Tim Knight
Buy used from: $23.94 Written by the author that built the Think Or Swim platform. This guy loves charts. More fun than O'Neils book.
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 | Entries & Exits: Visits to 16 Trading Rooms (Wiley Trading) by Alexander Elder
Buy new: $59.85 / Used from: $28.88 Pretty coffee table book. Repetitive.
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 | The Global Trader: Strategies for Profiting in Foreign Exchange, Futures and Stocks by Barbara Rockefeller
Buy new: $85.00 / Used from: $0.01 Buy and Hold is bunk. A good chapter on FOREX basics. Recommends forex futures with good consumer regulations, over forex spot trading. Warns of central bank intervention which can cause a currency market to move unexpectedly.
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 | Create Your Own Hedge Fund: Increase Profits and Reduce Risks with ETFs and Options (Wiley Trading) by Mark D. Wolfinger
Buy new: $37.82 / Used from: $29.29 Just like the cover says, he gives a brief overview of ETFs, and then discusses how to trade options on the ETFs. David Fry's book is better.
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 | Create Your Own ETF Hedge Fund: A Do-It-Yourself ETF Strategy for Private Wealth Management (Wiley Finance) by David Fry
Buy new: $51.39 / Used from: $12.45 Good evolution history of the investment vehicles with back office broker salesmanship, mutual funds, and ETFs. Good chapter on Bullish Bias, and how the industry wants you to keep buying anything. He also presents a good list of hedge fund strategies - Convertible Arbitrage, Equity neutral, Event Driven, Global Macro, etc.
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 | The Investor's Guide to Active Asset Allocation: Using Technical Analysis and ETFs to Trade the Markets by Martin J. Pring
Buy new: $43.17 / Used from: $10.96 Great intro into business cycles and how they are played out in the with respect to bonds, stocks, and commodities. He then discusses the sector rotation in the cycles. It gets a little thick at times, and you need to squint to see the point. Uses a lot of comparative graphs to do the analysis. Good practice. Hard to put into practice.
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 | Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom by Van Tharp
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $13.41 Thorough approach to trading. Requires studying. Worth the time.
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 | Mindtraps: Mastering the Inner World of Investing by Roland Barach
Buy used from: $82.65 This book helps me sleep. Roland identifies all the ways that we torture ourselves in our mind, and exposes it for what it is, a mindtrap. Eighty eight traps, written in 1988, and as relevant today as 20 years ago.
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 | The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide: Protect Your Savings, Boost Your Income, and Grow Wealthy Even in the Worst of Times by Martin D. Weiss
Buy new: $18.84 / Used from: $0.01 There is not enough content in this book. All fluff.
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 | The Bond Book: Everything Investors Need to Know About Treasuries, Municipals, GNMAs, Corporates, Zeros, Bond Funds, Money Market Funds, and More by Annette Thau
Buy used from: $2.19 Comprehensive. Explained GNMAs better than anything I could find elsewhere.
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 | Fundamentals of the Bond Market by Esme Faerber
Buy used from: $3.72 Fun workbook format for learning about bonds. (Fun?)
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 | Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse by Peter D. Schiff
Buy used from: $0.01 Great book on future economics. Recommends hard assests and foreign investments. Run from the dollar!
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 | The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel by Stephen Leeb
Buy used from: $1.17 Good argument for the rising cost of commodities, especially energy resources in the future as emerging markets become more profitable, they will not have surplus to sell to 1st world countries (like the US) except at a premium.
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 | Game Over: How You Can Prosper in a Shattered Economy by Stephen Leeb
Buy used from: $0.01 Similar to his oil books. Makes a few recommendations for investments; energy commodities, and energy rich countries.
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| Modern Economic Issues (The Great Courses: Business & Economics) by Professor Robert Whaples
Buy used from: $20.00 This is an excellent and thorough college course on economic issues, ranging from poverty, energy, insurance, etc.
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 | Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power (P.S.) by John Steele Gordon
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $5.84 Fantastic history of American wealth, starting with the Mayflower. A must read for anyone trying to understand how capital, tariffs, transportation, and politics create and destroy opportunities.
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![Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- And How It Can Renew America [HOT FLAT & CROWDED 7D]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KRkZUHM3L._SL75_.jpg) | Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- And How It Can Renew America [HOT FLAT & CROWDED 7D] by Thomas L.(Author) ; Wyman, Oliver(Read by) Friedman
Buy used from: $22.66 Thomas Friedman is an optimist. Rising tides will raise all boats. Growth can be good for everyone. It is NOT a zero sum game.
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 | The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen by Arthur B. Laffer
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $0.01 Laffer created the Laffer curve, which states that there is an optimum tax rate that will create the greatest revenue. Go below that optimum, and the government misses an opportunity. Go above that optimum, and the government discourages additional investments. It is a valid argument.
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 | Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One by Thomas Sowell
Buy used from: $9.85 You win in chess by being able to think more moves ahead than your opponent. Sowell, applies that type of thinking to areas of economics. I enjoyed his prediction on real estate. McMansions will not survive the energy crisis, or the post baby boomer generation's aversion to audacity and opulence.
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![The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash [TRILLION DOLLAR MELTDOWN 5D]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WS8-7bqzL._SL75_.jpg) | The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash [TRILLION DOLLAR MELTDOWN 5D] by Charles R.(Author) ; Summers, Nick(Read by) Morris
One of the better books on the financial crisis.
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