 | Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel, Fourth Edition by David M. Levine
Buy new: $174.67 / Used from: $29.98 Before you trade, you must learn statistics, grasshopper. Easy to read and follow.
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 | Statistics for Business and Economics and Student CD-ROM, Fifth Edition by Paul Newbold
Buy new: $166.67 / Used from: $1.73 More mathematical than stats for managers. Good supplement when the above is lacking.
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 | The Complete Arbitrage Deskbook by Stephane Reverre
Buy new: $37.77 / Used from: $30.56 Still waiting for this to arrive....have not read, but has high marks from the course instructor who has been a trader for years.
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 | Investment Science by David G. Luenberger
Buy new: $100.00 / Used from: $52.13 Good foundation to financial theory. A little dry, but readable.
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 | Financial Modeling - 2nd Edition: Includes CD by Simon Benninga
Buy new: $64.13 / Used from: $23.98 This lets you model almost everything from "Investment Science" into Excel. Focus is on excel, but has a little financial theory.
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 | Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications (New York Institute of Finance) by John J. Murphy
Buy new: $53.55 / Used from: $42.88 One of the TA bibles, and the only TA bible I've read. Quite comprehensive.
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 | Intermarket Analysis: Profiting from Global Market Relationships (Wiley Trading) by John Murphy
Buy new: $50.40 / Used from: $43.74 Unique book. Learn to track global economic trends using only charts.
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 | Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques by Sheldon Natenberg
Buy new: $40.95 / Used from: $30.25 If you only buy one book on this list, this is it. This is THE book on options as far as I'm concerned.
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 | Options as a Strategic Investment by Lawrence G. McMillan
Buy new: $50.40 / Used from: $41.74 Overly verbose and not as useful as Natenberg.
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 | Spreadsheet Modeling and Decision Analysis by Cliff Ragsdale
Buy used from: $20.88 Some good chapters in optimization and beginning time series.
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 | Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (5th Edition) by John C. Hull
Buy used from: $44.00 VERY mathematecal, but a great reference. I frequent reference when I need to reprogram an option model.
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 | Futures, Options, and Swaps by Robert W. Kolb
Buy used from: $6.25 Less mathematical than Hull. Get both. Read this first, then graduate to Hull.
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 | Non-Linear Time Series Models in Empirical Finance by Philip Hans Franses
Buy new: $40.49 / Used from: $23.00 Easier to follow than Tsay in my opinion. Has some more cutting edge material too.
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 | Analysis of Financial Time Series by Ruey S. Tsay
Buy used from: $35.00 Zzzzzzzzz. Good book I'm told, but the overly mathematical nature puts me to sleep. Time series is tricky, but this book makes it trickier. Still this is "the" book for financial time series.
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