This book treats stock trading as an adventure, but it is also a good introduction to the mentality of stock trading. This autobiography is set in the first half of the twentieth century and stars Jesse Livermore, who was a natural speculator. Jesse Livermore was very much larger than life, even though that is a [...]
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Book Review: Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
Liar’s Poker will not give you many good trading ideas. It will also give a rather out dated view of how the financial markets operate today as it misses out on the computer revolution in the market. However it is useful in setting the rather mad, borderline insane, scene that makes up for many professional [...]
March 25th, 2010 
IndependentInvestor Book Review: The Zurich Axioms, by Max Gunther
The Zurich Axioms is a classic. In fact it’s the first investment book I ever read from cover to cover. It’s also got a very easy to read style. I was fourteen when I read it. This isn’t as odd as it sounds as Max Gunther claims to have been thirteen when he first made [...]
March 9th, 2010 IndependentInvestor Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
I first read Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds during the internet bubble. Although I can’t say it made me rich, it kept me from becoming poor. It is an evergreen book, having been written more than 150 years ago by the Scottish journalist Charles Mackay. I hate to say it but it [...]
March 5th, 2010 IndependentInvestor 
