books: stock exchange

books: stock exchange

books:

Berkley Trade Genesis Weight Fits Stock exchange

How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities

John Cassidy

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009

Great Read
This is a great account of capitalism and how the facts....any great lover of macroeconomics should not miss this book..Its beyond a five star rating.

Candlestick Charting For Dummies

Russell Rhoads

For Dummies, 2008

Incredible Book, Incredible Author
I met Mr. Russell Rhoads at the CBOE during a tour. That same day I met Jim Rogers. Mr. Rhoads' book is as incredible as he is. I await your future titles. Your competition is Jim Rogers.

Irrational Exuberance

Robert J. Shiller

Crown Business, 2006

Credible Exposition
The author first mentioned the twelve precipitating factors for a bubble. Precipitating factors like capitalism explosion and ownership society, new information technology, supportive governmental monetary policies and analysts' optimistic forcast. This ...

The Little Book That Beats the Market (Little Books. Big Profits)

Joel Greenblatt

Wiley, 2005

A Formulaic Approach to Investing
In some ways, the average investor is like a man looking for the right combination to get at the riches in a vault. Unlocking the market's treasures - knowing which stocks to buy and sell - is a difficult mystery seemingly beyond his powers. Joel Greenblatt is the ...

High Probability Trading Strategies: Entry to Exit Tactics for the Forex, Futures, and Stock Markets (Wiley ...

Robert C. Miner

Wiley, 2008

Very practical advice
I read this book and could not put it down. I have read a lot about Fibonacci, Elliot Wave, and all the other trading strategies. I think that this book provides invaluable insight to bring the strategies together in a real world way, which is what I think the ...

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Wiley Investment Classics)

Edwin Lefèvre

Wiley, 2006

A book that got me into trading
This is among the books, if not the only one, that got me started in trading. So many reviewers have said more than I can. My feeling is if after reading this book you do not like it, then the probably is close to certainty that trading is not for you. It's been many ...

Investing For Dummies, Fifth edition

Eric Tyson

Wiley, 2008

From Dummy to Smarty
After reading this book, I finally have the knowledge and confidence to invest. I'm 32 years old and I'm so glad I've taken the time to educated myself, now having 27 years to consider in making the most of my money and investments.

Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading

Alexander Elder

Wiley, 2002

Informative, enlightening, inspiring--provides a glimpse into a profound and perceptive mind that happens to be that of a trader
Other reviewers have done a good job describing how the first two adjectives listed in the title of my review--"informative" and "enlightening"--apply to Elder's book. I would like to focus on the third adjective: inspiring, because I believe this is a characteristic ...

Den of Thieves

James B. Stewart

Touchstone Books, 1992

True story about Insurance industry
This is a TRUE story about the rip off that Prudential did to the American public. This was prior to the scandal about Worldcom, etc. Although some of it is a bit dull and dry, stay with it. I know I did. And, it was mind blowing to learn how men in power can ...

Bailout Nation, with New Post-Crisis Update: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the ...

Barry Ritholtz

Wiley, 2010

4.5 stars-Shows how Wall Street speculators were able to deregulate the financial sector starting in the late 1970's
The author does an excellent job in this book ,overall, in showing how Wall Street speculator firms (Bear Stearns,Goldman Sachs,Lehman Brothers,Merrill Lynch,Morgan Stanley,hedge funds,private equity firms,etc.)were able to take over the Republican and Democratic ...

Exchange-Traded Funds For Dummies

Russell Wild

For Dummies, 2006

A note to Mr. Wild
I am thoroughly enjoying reading your ETFs for Dummies book, and have delved into Index Investing for Dummies to a lesser extent. You have made investing in ETFs easy for me to understand -and anything but boring- and I feel much more secure about making some upcoming ...

The Disciplined Trader: Developing Winning Attitudes

Mark Douglas

Prentice Hall Press, 1990

phenomenal content + painful writing style
Even if you don't trade, you should read this book. The insight the author gives into a person's psyche is astounding. I learned more from this book than from dozens of psychology books and the couple of psych classes I took in college. On the downside, the author's ...

Technical Analysis of Stock Trends

Robert D. Edwards, John Magee, ...

AMACOM, 2007

Review
I've read quite a significant amount of trading books, but this one beats the rest by far. It was written in layman's terms with practical applications. A real treasure trove.

How to Trade In Stocks

Jesse Livermore

McGraw-Hill, 2006

Jesse Livermore Lives On
Livermore lived during the Great Depression and was known as "The Boy Plunger" for taking on large positions. He had been trading stocks since he was 15 and was regarded as one of the best speculators of his time. He made and lost millions, and this was back when a ...

After the Trade Is Made: Processing Securities Transactions

David M. Weiss

Portfolio Hardcover, 2006

Happy Memories
I had the fortune to be personally tought by Mr David Weiss. He used this incredible book as the basis of a 2 week series of lectures on the minutiae of trade processing. He made up for the shocking content of the book with his array of monogrammed Brooks Brothers ...