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Best Trading Books for Beginners
A sane starting order for a new trader: one orientation book, one method book, one reference, and the psychology book before bad habits set in.
Trading for a Living
Elder's classic trio: psychology, a trading system (Triple Screen), and money management, written for the independent trader.
The New Trading for a Living
The updated edition: modern markets, updated tools, and the same backbone of psychology, method, and risk control.
How to Make Money in Stocks
The CAN SLIM system: earnings growth, new highs, cup-and-handle bases, and strict loss cutting. The root text of modern breakout trading.
How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market
A dancer trading by telegram develops the Darvas box: buy strength breaking out of a range, trail a stop, ignore the noise. Short and readable in a day.
Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets
The standard textbook: trend, support and resistance, chart patterns, indicators, and intermarket relationships in one reference.
Trading in the Zone
The book on trading psychology: thinking in probabilities, accepting risk on every trade, and removing the emotional charge from losses.
Market Wizards
Interviews with the great traders of the 1980s: Paul Tudor Jones, Ed Seykota, Bruce Kovner and others on entries, exits, and above all risk.