A comment by Andrew on Barry’s post about the SEC wanting to ban all short selling sent me to my copy of Michael Panzner’s book Financial Armageddon. Andrew stated that “tonight’s event draws me to the last paragraph of ch.7 in Michael Panzer’s Financial Armageddon“. When I read that paragraph I [...]

Unfortunately I haven’t had a chance to read my review copy of Timothy Sykes‘ new book ‘An American Hedge Fund: How I Made $2 Million as a Stock Operator & Created a Hedge Fund’. But since you all read financial blogs I’m sure you’ve seen at least one of the many rave reviews across [...]

I’m really looking forward to reading Kedrick Brown’s book, Trend Trading: Timing Market Tides. It’s been near the top of my reading list for several weeks now. (I really need to carve out more reading time!). I’ve only skimmed through it thus far but it looks like a very good read. Kedrick [...]

Somehow, between writing for his own site, his TraderFeed Blog, TradingMarkets.com and various presentaions Dr. Steenbarger found the time to write a new book, Enhancing Trader Performance. I just got my hands on a copy and am looking forward to reading it. Dr. Brett wrote a little bit about the book yesterday [...]

After reading some of John Carter’s articles in Stocks, Futures and Options Magazine I was looking forward to reading his then upcoming book “Mastering the Trade: Proven Techniques for Profiting from Intraday and Swing Trading Setups“. It was obvious from his articles that John had some good insights into how the markets work [...]

Here’s a book that fans of “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator” should enjoy: “Fifty Years in Wall Street” by Henry Clews. I saw this book in the bookstore this morning. It has an interesting, er, story — it’s been out of print forever but Victor Niederhoffer had a copy of the older [...]

In writing How Markets Really Work: A Quantitative Guide to Stock Market Behavior (buy from Amazon.com) Larry Connors and Conor Sen (son of fellow blogger Ron Sen, MD) set out to do for the stock market what Moneyball did for baseball — debunk conventional wisdom trough the use of statistical analysis. This quote [...]

I’ve gotten some comments from people who have read that ‘Stikky Stock Charts’ book so I’m glad that my quick analysis of that book seems to be on point. ‘Doink’ left this comment today:

I read “Getting Started in Technical Analysis” first, got confused, then found Stikky Stock Charts. Great beginners book, took me [...]

Here’s an interesting book that I discovered today in the bookstore: Stikky Stock Charts: Learn The 8 Major Stock Chart Patterns Used By Professionals And How To Interpret Them To Trade Smart–in One Hour, Guaranteed. The book teaches some of the basics of technical analysis in a very simple and straight-forward way. I [...]

Jon, aka Fickle Trader, has a review of the new hardcover version of “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”. The paperback one of my favorite stock market books and since I’m due for a re-reading of it I may have to pick up this new edition. Here’s the description from Amazon:

Unknown to most [...]