 | Confessions of a Street Addict by James J. Cramer
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.06 The chapter when he describes the first few weeks of his hedge fund plus the chapter when he describes his September 1998 drawdown are investment classics.
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 | No Bull: My Life In and Out of Markets by Michael Steinhardt
Buy used from: $0.01 His ability to stick out a long-term idea (e.g. bonds in the first chapter) stand out.
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 | Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street's Champion Day Trader by Martin Schwartz
Buy new: $13.26 / Used from: $6.99 Every chapter a roller coaster as Schwartz tries and succeeds in building a career as, largely, a daytrader
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 | Baruch: My Own Story by Bernard Mannes Baruch
Buy new: $27.69 / Used from: $20.81 Baruch learned the hard way to wait for the fat pitch, but then for forty years thats all he swung at. This book maybe my favorite
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 | Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
Buy used from: $3.87 Value investor, private equity investor, hedge fund manager, insurance CEO, arbitrageur, silver hog, currency trader. What else?
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 | Jesse Livermore: World's Greatest Stock Trader by Richard Smitten
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $10.99 Looking forward to Smitten's next book: Trade like Jesse Livermore
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 | Practical Speculation by Victor Niederhoffer
Buy new: $25.60 / Used from: $4.25 Almost every investor on this list, with the exception of Buffett, has had incredible rises, falls, and then rises again. Its a cycle. And Victor has lived to tell the tale.
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 | Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve by George Soros
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $3.76 I'm always fascinated by the career paths of these guys. Before they are legends they are mortals and its interesting to read about that time.
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 | How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market by Nicolas Darvas
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $1.21 despite the corny title, its a classic - particularly the section when he switched his environment and started losing money.
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 | Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders by Jack D. Schwager
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $1.49 all three "wizards" books are classics. Every year my favorite interviews change so just read them all.
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 | The New Investment Superstars: 13 Great Investors and Their Strategies for Superior Returns by Lois Peltz
Buy new: $38.18 / Used from: $4.08 |
 | Wall Street People: True Stories of Today's Masters and Moguls by Charles D. Ellis
Buy new: $47.60 / Used from: $18.95 |
 | Value Investing With the Masters: Revealing Interviews With 20 Market-Beating Managers Who Have Stood the Test of Time by Kirk Kazanjian
Buy used from: $7.99 |
 | The Money Masters by John Train
Buy used from: $27.95 |
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