Trading books

[Photon]

Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk

I haven't yet read this but can't wait.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Extreme-Money-M ... 460&sr=8-1

I have read Trades, Guns & Money from the same author and I thought it was a really good read:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Traders-Guns-Mo ... pd_sim_b_1

[superfrank]

thanks for that Photon. 'will give it a go.

“an idiosyncratic yet withering analysis of how 30 years of financial alchemy and excessive credit have plunged us into what feels like a slow-motion depression… addresses, one by one, the overarching themes of the great credit boom and bust of the late 20th century.

Black humor is Das’ natural medium, and he gave me a rueful chuckle every few pages. You know that a writer is hard to pigeonhole when the advance praise compares him to both Candide and Hunter S. Thompson. I prefer to view Das as a modern-day Ishmael with an attitude, a weathered seaman who has witnessed firsthand the crazed hunt of hedge-fund captains for alpha, the great whale of superior investment returns.

… I could only endorse the conclusion. “There is no simple, painless solution” to the fix we’re in, Das writes. “The world has to reduce debt, shrink the financial part of the economy, and change the destructive incentive structures in finance. Individuals in developed countries have to save more and spend less.”

[superfrank]

One for the investors out there...



The Invisible Hands: Hedge Funds Off the Record - Rethinking Real Money
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Invisible-Hands-Hedge-Record-Rethinking/dp/047060753X/ref=wl_it_dp_o_npd?ie=UTF8&coliid=IBG9YLA0NOVI0&colid=1C0YLGO5A807V

[andyfuller]

"Bets and the city" by Sally Nicoll. Funny, sassy and takes a lighter look at the serious side of trading.
luck to you all
Groovy

Just read this - took about 2 days (which is very quick for me). It is more of an entertaining book as said above. I picked up a few things and it got my mind thinking which lead to me looking at various other things but other than that it I found it more of a fun book to read just before bed.

Can't see her ever making it (Maybe she has) she just doesn't seem to have the mindset for it. She did a trade where she chased her way out of a loss to a profit just so she could post a profit and wrote that she had done something correct by doing this which just looked like chasing to me.

I got it from Amazons Used Books section for just under £3 but it was Brand New as far as I could tell.

[Ferru123]

Can't see her ever making it (Maybe she has) she just doesn't seem to have the mindset for it.

I actually sent Sally Nicolls an email a while back, and I got the impression that she is now succeeding with spread betting.

Jeff

[andyfuller]

I actually sent Sally Nicolls an email a while back, and I got the impression that she is now succeeding with spread betting.

Is there anyone you haven't emailed

Fair play to her if she has - she must have made a good bit out of this book as it seems to sell well.

[Ferru123]

In my neck of the woods, it's the closest thing to intelligent conversation I'm going to get!

Jeff

Is there anyone you haven't emailed

[andyfuller]

Has anyone had any experience of this book:

Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques: a Contemporary Guide to the Ancient Investment Techniques of the Far East

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Japanese-Candle ... =8-3-fkmr0

[Ferru123]

It's the classic book on the subject, but there's a school of thought that says that candlestick analysis is pure bs.

Jeff

[andyfuller]

there's a school of thought that says that candlestick analysis is pure bs.

I would say there is a school of thought on just about everything that says such and such is bs. Best just to find what works for the individual I guess and keep an open mind as otherwise you risk missing out on things.

It's the classic book on the subject

Have you read the book at all Jeff?