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El Trader Inteligente

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[[DOWNLOADS — pending. This is where Javier's PDFs will go: summaries, revision sheets, exercises.]]

Books I recommend

The standard works in this field, picked for what they teach rather than for what they promise. None of them will make you money on its own, and any book that says it will is not on this list. They are in reading order: the readable ones first, the hardest last. The ones Amazon sells have a link; the ones it does not are on the list all the same.

  • Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre

    Published in 1923 and still quoted, because what it describes is not a technique but how people behave when money is involved. It reads like a novel. The easiest one here to start with.

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  • Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas

    About the psychological side: why someone who knows what to do ends up doing something else once they are in front of the screen. It is the discipline book almost everyone in this field ends up citing.

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  • Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets by John J. Murphy

    The reference textbook, and it reads like one: dense, and not something to get through in one sitting. It works better as something to look things up in than as a book to read cover to cover.

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  • Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager

    Interviews with traders whose methods contradict one another and who did well anyway. That is exactly what makes it useful: it makes clear there is no single right way, which is hard to see when you are starting.

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  • The Daily Trading Coach by Brett N. Steenbarger

    Practical psychology split into 101 short chapters, meant to be read one a day. It suits someone working through exercises each week who wants something short in between.

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  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

    Not a trading book, which is why it is on the list. It explains why the brain makes poor decisions under uncertainty when money is involved, which is precisely the situation you will be in. Written by a Nobel laureate in economics.

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