Recommended Reading

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I have taken great pains to research and list for you my suggested plan of attack in my books: Trading 101-How to Trade Like a ProTrading 102-Getting Down to Business, and Electronic Day Trading 101.   These books are available at your local bookstore (Barnes & Noble, BookStar, BDalton, Hastings, Crown, etc.) or through Traders Library, Amazon.com and all the other financial booksellers. 

Of course, you may order these and other books through The Money Mentor, online, as well.

Your First Reading List

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After you have read each of these at least twice, go on to the Secondary Reading List below.

Cover Book Title Author
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Trading 101-How to Trade Like a Pro 

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Getting Started in Trading

(I say "or" because the newer one is just an upgrade and re-write of the first one.)

Sunny J. Harris

Trading 102-Getting Down to Business

Sunny J. Harris

 

Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets  

John Murphy

 

A Short History of Financial Euphoria  

John Kenneth Galbraith

 

The Intelligent Investor  

Benjamin Graham

 

Keys to Understanding the Financial News  

Barrons

 

Technical Analysis from A to Z

Steven Achelis

EDAT Electronic Day Trading 101 Sunny J. Harris
  Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets
by John Murphy
ISBN#: 0-7352-0066-1
Number of pages: 556
Publisher: Prentice Hall.
Available in Hardcover.
Date Published: 1998
John Murphy
Click to see next page Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns
by Thomas Bulkowski
ISBN#: 0-471-29525-6
Number of pages: 576
Publisher: Wiley Trading Advantage.
Available in hardcover.
Date Published: 2000
Thomas Bulkowskki
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The Encyclopedia of Technical Market Indicators

Robert W Colby
  InterMarket Technical Analysis
ISBN#: 0-471-52433-6
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons.
Available in Hardcover.
Date Published: 1991
John Murphy
  Master Swing Trader
ISBN#: 0071363092
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: McGraw Hill.
Available in hardcover.
Date Published: 2000
 
Alan Farley
  The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies
by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Donna McCormickk
 
Jeffrey Owen Katz
     
     
     

Secondary Reading List

Start Here.  I have listed these books in the order in which I believe you should read them.  By the time you have read as many books on trading as I have (317 to date) you will have invested a small fortune in your library. 

Remember: Education is not Expensive.  Lack of Education Is!

 

Getting Started in Technical Analysis


 
by Jack D. Schwager
ISBN#: 0-471-29542-6
Traders Press Catalog #: 1466
Publisher: Wiley Trading Advantage.
Available in Softcover.
Date Published: 1998
Currently In Stock
 
 

Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets


 
by John Murphy
ISBN#: 0-7352-0066-1
Traders Press Catalog #: 153-B
Number of pages: 556
Publisher: Prentice Hall.
Available in Hardcover.
Date Published: 1998
 
     
The Master Swing Trader: Tools and Techniques to profit from Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities This is a complete, practical guide to making profitable short-term trades. hardcover. Retail Alan Farley
Bollinger on Bollinger Bands John Bollinger
  Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques: A Contemporary Guide to the Ancient Investment Techniques of the Far East

Steve Nison

  Trading Systems and Methods Hardcover. Retail Price: $85.00. On Sale Now for $55.25! You Save $29.75 (35%)! View more details.
Perry Kaufman
 
Publisher's Price: $35.00. On Sale Now for $22.75! You Save $12.25 (35%)!
ISBN#: 0-07-034002-1
Traders Press Catalog #: 650
Number of pages: 252
Publisher: McGraw Hill.
Available in Hardcover.
Date Published: 1995
 
Perry Kaufman
 
Publisher's Price: $175.00.
ISBN#: 0-9650461-0-9
Traders Press Catalog #: 1042
Number of pages: 239
Publisher: M. Gordon Publishing Group.
Available in Hardcover.
Date Published: 1995
Laurence Connors & Linda Bradford Raschke
 

Hit and Run Trading

  Publisher's Price: $100.00.
ISBN#: 0-9650461-2-5
Traders Press Catalog #: 1043
Number of pages: 157
Publisher: M. Gordon Publishing Group.
Available in Hardcover.
Date Published: 1996
 
Jeff Cooper
  The Compleat Day Trader

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ISBN#: 0-07-009251-6
Traders Press Catalog #: 578-A
Publisher: McGraw Hill.
Available in Hardcover.
Date Published: 1995
Currently In Stock

Jake Bernstein
  by Jake Bernstein
Publisher's Price: $55.00.
ISBN#: 0-471-16811-4
Traders Press Catalog #: 1229
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons.
Available in Hardcover.
Date Published: 1998
Jake Bernstein
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Advanced Reading List

Start Here.  I have listed these books in the order in which I believe you should read them.  These books are best left until you have read all the others, and probably until you have been trading for a while.  Some of the concepts in these advanced books will be best understood after you have made some mistakes on your own, and have accumulated your own list of questions.

 
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ISBN#: 0471527564
Traders Press Catalog #: 339
Number of pages: 253
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons.
Available in hardcover.
Date Published: 1990
Ralph Vince
 
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ISBN#: 0-471-04307-9
Traders Press Catalog #: 773
Number of pages: 205
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons.
Available in Hardcover.
Date Published: 1995
 
Ralph Vince