List of Trading Novels

Here is a list of books I believe are essential reads. For the Top 50 list, these books have significantly broadened or deepened my understanding of market dynamics, enhanced my personal investment psychology as a trader, and refined my investment methodology. Each title is rated on a scale of 1 to 10 in terms of quality and relevance. Additionally, the Top Non-Investment-Related Books list includes works that have aligned my personal psychology, contributing to my success. Books written before 1960 have their copyright dates in bold. It’s fascinating to read books from different eras to see that human nature remains constant. This consistency underscores why a robust methodology can endure for decades, if not centuries.

1. How to Make Money in Stocks by William O’Neil
2. How to Make Money Selling Stocks Short by William O’Neil and Gil Morales
3. Trend Following by Michael Covel
4. The Battle for Investment Survival by Gerald Loeb (1935)
5. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre (1923)
6. Lessons from the Greatest Stock Traders of All Time by John Boik
7. The Best: Tradingmarkets.com Conversations with Top Traders by Kevin Marder
8. The New Market Wizards by Jack Schwager
9. Market Wizards by Jack Schwager
10. Bulls Bears & Millionaires by Robert Koppel
11. The Mind of a Trader by Alpesh B. Patel
12. How to Trade in Stocks by Jesse Livermore (1940)
13. The Winning Edge by Jake Bernstein and Nancy Toghraie
14. Zen in the Markets by Edward Allen Toppel
15. Stock Market Logic by Norman Fosback
16. The Art of Contrary Thinking by Humphrey B. Neill (1954)
17. Wall Street Ventures and Adventures by Richard Wyckoff (1930)
18. The Wall Street Waltz by Kenneth Fisher
19. The Momentum-Gap Method by Robert Cable
20. How I Made $2 Million in the Stock Market by Nicolas Darvas (1960)
21. Money Talks by Robert Koppel
22. The Roaring 2000s by Harry Dent, Jr.
23. Tape Reading and Market Timing by Humphrey B. Neill (1931)
24. Only Yesterday-An Informal History of the 1920s by Frederick Allen (1931)
25. Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
26. The Amazing Life of Jesse Livermore by Richard Smitten
27. Jesse Livermore Speculator King by Paul Sarnoff
28. How to Be a Billionaire by Martin Fridson
29. One-Way Pockets: The Book of Books on Wall Street Speculation by Don Guyon (1917)
30. Twenty-Eight Years in Wall Street by Henry Clews (1888)
31. Secrets of the Investment All-Stars by Kenneth Stern
32. Causes of the 1929 Stock Market Crash by Harold Biermann, Jr.
33. Trader Vic-Methods of a Wall Street Master by Victor Sperandeo
34. Trader Vic II-Principles of Professional Speculation by Victor Sperandeo
35. Winning on Wall Street by Martin Zweig
36. Trading for a Living by Dr. Alexander Elder (with study guide)
37. The Ups and Downs of a Wall St. Trader during the Depths of the Great Depression of the 1930s by David Feldman
38. Statistical Reasoning by Gary Smith
39. Wall Street: A Pictorial History by Leonard Levinson
40. Oh Yeah? By Edward Angly (1931)
41. Market Timing for the Nineties by Stephen Leeb
42. Intermarket Technical Analysis by John Murphy
43. Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay (1841)
44. Encyclopedia of Technical Market Indicators by Robert Colby & Tom Meyers
45. The New Money Masters by John Train
46. The Technical Analysis Course by Thomas Meyers
47. The Tao Jones Averages by Bennett Goodspeed
48. The Money Culture by Michael Lewis
49. The Hulbert Guide to Financial Newsletters by Mark Hulbert

Best of the rest

1. The Education of a Speculator by Victor Niederhoffer
2. Secrets of Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets by Stan Weinstein
3. One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch
4. Investments (Text used in MBA Investments 233 course at UC Berkeley)
5. Inside Wall Street by S. Marshall Kemper (1920-1942)
6. Dun & Bradstreet’s Guide To Your Investments 1991 by Nancy Dunnan
7. Confusion de Confusiones by Joseph de La Vega (1800s)
8. Confessions of a Stock Broker by Andrew Lanyi
9. Classics II by Charles D. Ellis
10. Bernard Baruch: My Own Story by Bernard Baruch
11. What Works on Wall Street by James O’Shaunessy
12. The Super Traders by Alan Rubenfeld
13. The Nature of Risk by Justin Mamis
14. The Mathematics of Money Management by Ralph Vince
15. Men and Mysteries of Wall Street by James Medbery (1878)
16. Market Movers by Nancy Dunnan and Jay Pack
17. Economics by Paul Samuelson and William Nordhaus (text)
18. The New Technical Trader by Tushar Chande and Stanley Kroll
19. The Merchant Bankers by Joseph Wechsberg
20. The Five-Day Momentum Method by Jeff Cooper
21. The New Stock Market by Diana Harrington, Frank Fabozzi, and H. Russell Fogler
22. How to Buy Stocks, 7th edition, by Louis Engel and Brendan Boyd
23. Handbook of Financial Markets by Frank Fabozzi
24. The Corporate Alchemists by Lee Davis
25. Portfolio Management Formulas by Ralph Vince
26. Hit and Run Trading by Jeff Cooper

Non-Investment Related Books:

1. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
2. A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
3. The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles
4. Ask and It Is Given by Esther Hicks
5. The Law of Attraction by Esther Hicks
6. Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield
7. Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson
8. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
9. The World As I See It by Albert Einstein
10. Wooden by John Wooden
11. Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
12. Right Reason by William F. Buckley, Jr.
13. The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump
14. Leaders by Richard Nixon
15. Malcolm Forbes-The Man Who Had Everything by Christopher Winans
16. The Elements Beyond Uranium by Glenn Seaborg