First edition of the book was published in 1999, this one is the second edition and was published in 2007. In a quite long foreword already there are several good points about trading. Van Tharp tells how everyone trades his or her beliefs about the market and how his beliefs have changed over the course […]
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Crazy times in the world, huh? A year ago today, I was flying to NYC to meet other traders and attend a trading workshop. Can’t imagine that opportunity right now. However, something has stuck with me ever since. When I was on the plane, I was listening to a podcast that played an excerpt of […]
Published in 2012 by a discretionary trader Adam Grimes, this book is all about the basics and logic about technical analysis in financial trading, why and how it works. Some say technical analysis works because everyone looks at the charts and anticipates the same way but Grimes goes back to the Dow chart of 1929 […]
Another great book on psychology. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman reflects his thorough life work on human behavior and psychology. Tho it’s mostly about the topics in general, it also includes facts about trading psychology. Some of the keywords from this book are attention and effort, laziness, cognitive ease, surprises and causes, judgements, the […]
Trade Mindfully from Dr. Gary Dayton helped me a lot with trading psychology. This is not just a book, it is a textbook and a workbook in one. There are exercises in it and if you are serious about your business I recommend you finish all of these. It will all be for your own […]