 | Investments with S&P bind-in card by Zvi Bodie
Buy new: $147.20 / Used from: $27.97 The textbook on investments... If you need to find the difference between and information ratio and a Sharpe ratio, this is the book for you.
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 | Principles of Financial Engineering, Second Edition (Academic Press Advanced Finance) by Salih N. Neftci
Buy new: $60.03 / Used from: $55.88 For advanced securities derivatives analysis... Probably worth picking up to see how ridiculous the CDS and swap markets became... Could be out of print in a few years depending on regulations in the OTC markets.
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 | Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques by Sheldon Natenberg
Buy new: $40.95 / Used from: $31.84 The "must read" for derivatives traders and strategies. If you can't get past chapter 5, you should never think about trading options, futures, or forwards.
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 | Investment Psychology Explained: Classic Strategies to Beat the Markets by Martin J. Pring
Buy new: $29.20 / Used from: $6.25 Great "rules based" trading strategies primer. I especially like the traders' heuristics later in the book.
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 | Options as a Strategic Investment by Lawrence G. McMillan
Buy new: $53.55 / Used from: $49.99 The "Bible" on options
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 | Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders by Jack D. Schwager
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $10.97 Awesome stories of top traders
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 | The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders by Jack D. Schwager
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $11.98 Updated version of previous Market Wizards book
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 | Hedge Hunters: Hedge Fund Masters on the Rewards, the Risk, and the Reckoning by Katherine Burton
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $7.45 Good backgrounder on the 1990-2007 period
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 | Fooling Some of the People All of the Time Updated and Revised: A Long Short Story by David Einhorn
Buy new: $18.87 / Used from: $12.98 Sarcatic, but very true
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 | Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.99 Phenominal
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 | The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Buy new: $18.48 / Used from: $8.99 Classic read
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 | Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Buy new: $18.48 / Used from: $17.63 Another stab to the heart of "normal distributions"
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 | When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.20 Beware of those who know your "book" and can trade against it
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 | The Ivy Portfolio: How to Invest Like the Top Endowments and Avoid Bear Markets by Mebane T. Faber
Buy new: $32.97 / Used from: $26.95 Reads like the website, which is another great read
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 | Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment, Fully Revised and Updated by David F. Swensen
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $14.99 Remarkable thinking... Worthy of great praise - like "Nobel" at some point...
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 | Martin Zweig's Winning on Wall Street by Martin Zweig
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $0.01 Father of a quantitative approach to macro investing. Many of the checklists on the super model are good to review.
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 | Running Money: Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets and My Hunt for the Big Score by Andy Kessler
Buy new: $11.24 / Used from: $0.22 Just an incredible documentary of the great tech bull and how ridiculous the hedge fund and fund-of-fund world can be in heard mentality. The story of Bernie Madoff explained to some degree years before the hoax was revealed.
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 | Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets by Steven Drobny
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $7.99 Another good "top stories" from top traders book.
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