TopTradersUnplugged Ultimate Guide 5th Edition 1222

the
ULTIMATE
GUIDE
to the best
INVESTMENT
BOOKS
5th Edition
INTRODUCTION
Dear Investor,
Many of us are, knowingly or unknowingly, betrayed by either short-term

thinking or seduced by the “buy and hold” investing philosophy, and don’t
know where to start if you want to learn and better understand how to think
like the most successful investors of today.
Sound familiar?
The good news is...it doesn’t have to be this way.
As you start your own search for an approach to investing that not only
intuitively makes sense but also has the hard evidence to support it...it can
be a challenge to find a list of books and resources where you can find
everything you need to understand and subsequently benefit from a new and
modern way of organizing your investments.
This includes how-to build a robust portfolio of liquid investments, adaptive

asset allocation, the importance of mind-set and psychology, which
alternatives investments to include, how to maximize diversification and
increase risk-adjusted returns, and how to successfully test as well as
perform risk/return analyses on these investment strategies.
And let’s not forget the important lessons we can learn from history, that we
so often forget.
You probably want to find a single resource that covers everything you need
to achieve your goal, like “From what you need to know to What you must do
to succeed”.
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The truth is that when I started my own search for a resource like this a few
decades ago, looking for a comprehensive guide... I wanted something that
could provide me with all the relevant information to help me make the
right decisions in order to build true wealth.
A resource that would allow investors like you and me to question the
commonly held belief of only investing in stocks & bonds, using buy & hold
strategies and how to improve upon this.
A resource that would guide us through the important questions that need
to be considered before investing in different asset classes and contain
helpful direction for us during the investing process and show us where to
find data to evaluate the strategies and explain how they operate.
What’s more...it should offer guidance on how to apply classic portfolio

construction tools to liquid alternatives, reveal how these investments can
help us evaluate and meet risk, return, and liquidity objectives and give
sound, practical advice in an easy-to-understand, readily digestible way.
And on top of this, it should identify tools, concepts, psychologies, and

philosophies that help keep investors like you and me more protected and
better able to make money when the next market bubble or surprise crisis
occurs. Because it will occur, and it may already have happened.
It should be designed for professional and individual investors, financial

advisors, and any other investor interested in finding the strategies which
can meaningfully improve the risk-reward profile of most, if not all portfolios.
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And finally, it should take a more holistic approach to exploring and
analyzing the macro challenges that we are all facing as a community, which
affect each and every one of us as individuals.
But the truth is, I did not find one single book that gave me all these
answers. Instead, I found a collection of highly engaging and well-written
books on these subjects...And in this Ultimate Guide...I want to share them
with you.
If you are serious about building SAFER and BETTER PERFORMING portfolios,
I hope this guide will be a valuable first step in your investment journey and I
urge you to get started TODAY.
And I invite you to join me each week on my podcast as I continue my raw &
honest investment journey through meaningful conversations with leading
experts from many parts of the global economic world we live in today.
To Your Success,
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen
Managing Director, DUNN Capital (Europe)
& Founder and Host of TopTradersUnplugged
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Before you jump into all the book titles I have collected for you, I wanted to
take a minute to tell you about a new and super useful tool.
As you probably know, during the low interest regime from about 2000 to
2020, it was easy to be an investor. All you needed to do was to be Long
Stocks and Long Bonds (ideally with leverage) embracing the virtues of Risk
Parity.
But since this regime ended and especially in a year like 2022, this approach
to investing whether in a 60/40, 70/30 or whatever combination you like…
frankly did not worked so well and the RISK in Risk Parity has become clear for
all of us to see.
So… what should investors do now?
Well, as you may have heard many wise investors say…you need to be
Diversified…across assets and strategies that have as little or no correlation to
each other.
But how do I find these non-correlated investment opportunities and find

out how much to invest in each?... I hear you say… Fear not…I have some
great news for you.
The firm I work for, DUNN Capital Management has developed a web-based
Portfolio Builder Tool that you can use for free to create your own portfolios
of US or International Equities, Global Bonds, Real Estate, Gold…and of course
Trend Following.
All you need to do to get started is to click the link below and fill out the
Accreditation Form (due to regulation) and you can build as many portfolios
as you would like, to see how you may be able to diversify your portfolio to be
better prepared for navigating an uncertain and potentially much more volatile
investment environment than the one we have left behind us.
ACCESS TO PORTFOLIO BUILDER
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Crypto�� 6
Geo Politics & Natural Resources ��11
Investment Strategy Insights�� 45
Making Better Investment Decisions�� 149
Managed Futures Essentials�� 202
Stories of Legendary Investors�� 221
The Historic Perspective ��253
Trend Following��308
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CRYPTO
The Blocksize War �� 7

Jonathan Bier
The Bitcoin Standard�� 8
Saefedean Ammous
Beyond Blockchain �� 9
Erik Townsend
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain�� 10
David Gerard
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THE BLOCKSIZE WAR

The battle for control over Bitcoin’s protocol rules
This book covers Bitcoin’s blocksize war, which was waged from August 2015
to November 2017.
On the surface the battle was about the amount of data allowed in each
Bitcoin block, however it exposed much deeper issues, such as who controls
Bitcoin’s protocol rules.
The author has provided a chronology of the most significant events. This
book explores some of the major characters in the conflict and includes
coverage, from both the front lines and behind the scenes, during some of the
most acute phases of the struggle.
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Authored By
Jonathan Bier
Publication Date
2021
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THE BITCOIN STANDARD

The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
When a pseudonymous programmer introduced “a new electronic cash
system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party” to a small online
mailing list in 2008, very few people paid attention. Ten years later, and
against all odds, this upstart autonomous decentralized software offers an
unstoppable and globally accessible hard money alternative to modern
central banks. The Bitcoin Standard analyzes the historical context to the rise
of Bitcoin, the economic properties that have allowed it to grow quickly, and its
likely economic, political, and social implications.
Bitcoin’s real competitive edge might just be as a store of value and network
for the final settlement of large payments―a digital form of gold with a built-in
settlement infrastructure.
As it challenges the most sacred of government monopolies, Bitcoin shifts

the pendulum of sovereignty away from governments in favor of individuals,
offering us the tantalizing possibility of a world where money is fully extricated
from politics and unrestrained by borders.
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Authored By
Saefedean Ammous
Publication Date
2018
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BEYOND BLOCKCHAIN
The Death of the Dollar and the Rise of Digital Currency
The cryptocurrency trend has continued to grow despite widespread
predictions that it would just be a flash in the pan. What if Digital Currency
is about to change the world in ways beyond our imagination? And what if
geopolitical forces our politicians don’t even understand have already inspired
China and Russia to use Digital Currency to attack the U.S. Dollar’s dominance
over the global financial system?
The Dollar has served as the world’s reserve currency since 1944, and the
fringe benefits have allowed the U.S. Government to borrow and spend
beyond its means and run massive trade deficits for decades. Now China
and Russia suddenly have a new lever to use which could upset the global
balance of power. Who would have guessed that technology breakthroughs
conceived by the inv
The invention of digital cash enables government-issued digital currency

systems that could completely modernize the global monetary system.
The potential benefits to society are so great that it’s hard to grasp their full
magnitude. But a digital currency system introduced by China and Russia
could upstage the Dollar and replace it as global reserve currency, causing
devastating consequences for the U.S. economy. Which country wins the new
digital currency race could change the course of human history.
Authored By
Erik Townsend
Publication Date
2018
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ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT

BLOCKCHAIN
David Gerard covers the origins and history of Bitcoin to the present day, the
other cryptocurrencies it spawned including Ethereum, the ICO craze and the
2017 crypto bubble, and the attempts to apply blockchains and smart con-
tracts to business, plus a case study on blockchains in the music industry.
This book takes a straightforward skeptical angle. The book does not focus on
details of cryptography and code or describe how a cryptocurrency or a block-
chain works. The book discusses the phenomena that have emerged as part
of the rise of Bitcoin and blockchain. This includes things such as the anony-
mous founder, Satoshi Nakamoto, the multiple high-profile failures of Bitcoin
exchanges, as well as clear examples of human folly, fraud and unconstrained
greed.
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Authored By
David Gerard
Publication Date
2017
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GEO-POLITICS
& NATURAL
RESOURCES
21st Century Monetary Policy ��13

Ben Bernanke
A Flag Worth Dying For ��14
Tim Marshall
Chip War��15
Chris Miller
Disorder��16
Helen Thompson
Disunited Nations��17
Peter Zeihan
Divided ��18
Tim Marshall
Financial Cold War ��19
James A. Fok
Geopolitical Alpha ��20
Marko Papic
How Civil Wars Start ��21
Barbara F. Walter
How the World Really Works ��22
Vaclav Smil
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Iceland’s Secret ��23
Jared Bibler
Inflation ��24
Steve Forbes, Nathan Lewis, Elizabeth Ames
MegaThreats ��25
Nouriel Roubini
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible��26
Peter Pomerantsev
Overreach �� 27
Susan L. Shirk
Prisoners of Geography��28
Tim Marshall
The Absent Superpower ��29
Peter Zeihan
The Accidental Superpower��30
Peter Zeihan
The Age of Walls��31
Tim Marshall
The Changing World Order��32
Ray Dalio
The Economic Weapon�� 33
Nicholas Mulder
The End of the Everything Bubble �� 34
Alasdair Nairn
The End of the World is Just the Beginning ��35
Peter Zeihan
The End of Theory ��36
Richard Bookstaber
The Great Demographic Reversal�� 37
Charles Goodhart & Manoj Pradhan
The Jungle Grows Back�� 38
Robert Kagan
The Power of Crisis��39
Ian Bremmer
The Power of Geography ��40
Tim Marshall
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order ��41
Ray Dalio
The World for Sale ��42
Javier Blas, Jack Farchy
This Is Not Propaganda �� 43
Peter Pomerantsev
Us vs. Them �� 44
Ian Bremmer
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21ST CENTURY MONETARY POLICY

The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
21st Century Monetary Policy takes readers inside the Federal Reserve,
explaining what it does and why.
The Federal Reserve deployed an extraordinary range of policy tools that

helped prevent the collapse of the financial system and the U.S. economy.
These strategies would have astonished Powell’s late-20th-century
predecessors, and the advent of these tools raises new questions about the
future landscape of economic policy.
Ben Bernanke takes a fresh look at the bank’s policymaking over the past
seventy years, including his own time as chair, and shows how changes in
the economy have driven the Fed’s innovations. In this book the author also
explores the return of inflation, cryptocurrencies, increased risks of financial
instability, and threats to its independence.
Experience the drama of those moments as Ben Bernanke shares the pivotal
moments that comprised his time at the Fed.
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Authored By
Ben Bernanke
Publication Date
2022
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A FLAG WORTH DYING FOR

The Power and Politics of National Symbols
For thousands of years flags have represented our hopes and dreams. They
represent the politics of high power as well as the politics of the mob.
In nine chapters (covering the USA, UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa,
Latin America, international flags, and flags of terror), Tim Marshall’s A Flag
Worth Dying For is a “brisk, entertaining read. Marshall presents an informative
survey of these highly visible symbols of national or international pride, and
explains how they figure in diplomatic relations and events today.
The author draws on more than twenty-five years of global reporting

experience to reveal the true meaning behind the symbols that unite us—and
divide us.
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Authored By
Tim Marshall
Publication Date
2016
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CHIP WAR
The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology
You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce
resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic,
and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually
everything—from missiles to microwaves—runs on chips, including cars,
smartphones, the stock market, even the electric grid. Until recently,
America designed and built the fastest chips and maintained its lead as the
#1 superpower, but America’s edge is in danger of slipping, undermined
by players in Taiwan, Korea, and Europe taking over manufacturing. Now,
as Chip War reveals, China, which spends more on chips than any other
product, is pouring billions into a chip-building initiative to catch up to the US.
At stake is America’s military superiority and economic prosperity. Economic
historian Chris Miller explains how the semiconductor came to play a critical
role in modern life and how the U.S. became dominant in chip design and
manufacturing and applied this technology to military systems. America’s
victory in the Cold War and its global military dominance stems from its ability
to harness computing power more effectively than any other power. But
here, too, China is catching up, with its chip-building ambitions and military
modernization going hand in hand. America has let key components of the
chip-building process slip out of its grasp, contributing not only to a worldwide
chip shortage but also a new Cold War with a superpower adversary that is
desperate to bridge the gap.
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Chris Miller
Publication Date
2022
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DISORDER
Hard Times in the 21st Century
The 21st century has brought a powerful tide of geopolitical, economic, and
democratic shocks. The fallout has led central banks to create over $25
trillion of new money, brought about a new age of geopolitical competition,
destabilized the Middle East, ruptured the European Union, and exposed old
political fault lines in the United States.
This book recounts three histories - one about geopolitics, one about the
world economy, and one about western democracies - and explains how in
the years of political disorder prior to the pandemic the disruption, in each,
became one big story.
The author illustrates how much of this turbulence originated in problems

generated by fossil-fuel energies. Even as the green transition takes place,
energy will invariably continue to drive the narrative.
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Authored By
Helen Thompson
Publication Date
2022
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DISUNITED NATIONS
The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war.
Peter Pomerantsev takes us to the front lines of the disinformation age—

from Kiev to Manila--where he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up
populists, “behavioral change” salesmen, Jihadi fanboys, Identitarians, truth
cops, and many others. Forty years after his Ukrainian dissident parents were
pursued by the KGB, Pomerantsev finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great
propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia — but the answers
he finds there are not what he expected.
Blending reportage, family history, and intellectual adventure, This Is Not

Propaganda explores how we can reimagine our politics and ourselves when
reality seems to be coming apart.
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Authored By
Peter Zeihan
Publication Date
2020
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DIVIDED
Why We’re Living in an Age of Walls
New from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography
We feel more divided than ever. This riveting analysis tells you why. Walls
are going up. Nationalism and identity politics are on the rise once more.
Thousands of miles of fences and barriers have been erected in the past
ten years, and they are redefining our political landscape. There are many
reasons why we erect walls, because we are divided in many ways: wealth,
race, religion, politics. In Europe the ruptures of the past decade threaten not
only European unity, but in some countries liberal democracy itself. In China,
the Party’s need to contain the divisions wrought by capitalism will define
the nation’s future. In the USA the rationale for the Mexican border wall taps
into the fear that the USA will no longer be a white majority country in the
course of this century. Understanding what has divided us, past and present,
is essential to understanding much of what’s going on in the world today.
Covering China; the USA; Israel and Palestine; the Middle East; the Indian
Subcontinent; Africa; Europe and the UK, bestselling author Tim Marshall
presents a gripping and unflinching analysis of the fault lines that will shape
our world for years to come.
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Authored By
Tim Marshall
Publication Date
2018
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FINANCIAL COLD WAR

A View of Sino-U.S. Relations From the Financial Markets
Rising tensions between China and the United States have kept the financial
markets on edge as a showdown between the world’s two largest economies
seems inevitable. But what most people fail to recognize is the major
impact that the financial markets themselves have had on the creation and
acceleration of the conflict.
In Financial Cold War: A View of Sino-US Relations from the Financial Markets,
author James Fok explores the nuances of China-US relations from the
perspective of the financial markets. The book helps readers understand
how imbalances in the structure of global financial markets have singularly
contributed to frictions between the two countries.
This book explores the intersection of economics and international relations,

financial markets, and the infrastructure underlying the international financial
system.
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Authored By
James A. Fok
Publication Date
2022
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GEOPOLITICAL ALPHA
An Investment Framework for Predicting the Future
Geopolitical Alpha posits that investors should ignore the media-hyped
narratives, insights from “smoke-filled rooms,” and most of their political
consultants and, instead, focus exclusively on the measurable, material
constraints facing policymakers. In the tug-of-war between policymaker
preferences and their constraints, the latter always win out in the end. Papic
uses a wealth of examples from the past decade to illustrate how one can use
his constraint-framework to generate Geopolitical Alpha. In the process, the
book discusses:
• What paradigm shifts will drive investment returns over the next decade.
• Why investment and corporate professionals can no longer treat geopolitics
as an exogenous risk.
• How to ignore the media and focus on what drives market narratives that
generate returns.
Perfect for investors, C-suite executives, and investment professionals,

Geopolitical Alpha belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in the
intersection of geopolitics, economics, and finance.
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Authored By
Marko Papic
Publication Date
2020
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HOW CIVIL WARS START

And How to Stop Them
Over the last two decades, the number of active civil wars around the world has almost
doubled. Walter reveals the warning signs—where wars tend to start, who initiates them,
what triggers them—and why some countries tip over into conflict while others remain
stable.
Perhaps surprisingly, both autocracies and healthy democracies are largely immune
from civil war; it’s the countries in the middle ground that are most vulnerable. And this
is where more and more countries, including the United States, are finding themselves
today.
Drawing on the latest international research and lessons from over twenty countries,
Walter identifies the crucial risk factors, from democratic backsliding to factionalization
and the politics of resentment. A civil war today won’t look like America in the 1860s,
Russia in the 1920s, or Spain in the 1930s. It will begin with sporadic acts of violence
and terror, accelerated by social media. It will sneak up on us and leave us wondering
how we could have been so blind.
In this urgent and insightful book, Walter redefines civil war for a new age, providing the
framework we need to confront the danger we now face—and the knowledge to stop it
before it’s too late.
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Authored By
Barbara F. Walter
Publication Date
2022
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HOW THE WORLD REALLY WORKS

The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going
This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our
survival and prosperity.
As information rich as our world is today, our general inability to connect the
dots in understanding the facts has prevented us from effectively tackling
problems. From globalization to our dependency on fossil fuels the facts are
often times the lesser of the forces driving decisions.
Looking at the world through this quantitative lens reveals hidden truths that
change the way we see our past, present and uncertain future.
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Authored By
Vaclav Smil
Publication Date
2022
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ICELAND’S SECRET
The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Con
Jared Bibler is an American who relocated to Iceland in 2004 only to find
himself in the middle of an unprecedented financial crisis a handful of years
later.
Personally wiped out and seeking to uncover the truth about a collapse that
brought the pastoral country to its knees, he became the lead investigator
into some of the largest financial crimes in the world. This work helped Iceland
to famously become the only country to jail its bank CEOs in the wake of the
2008 crisis.
But the real story behind that headline is far more complex ― and sinister.
A decade after the investigations, the story can be told at last and in full.
The crisis, barely understood inside or outside of Iceland even today, is a
cautionary tale for the world: an inside look at the high crimes that inevitably
follow Wild West capitalism.
With the next global financial meltdown just around the corner, this untold tale
is as timely as ever.
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Authored By
Jared Bibler
Publication Date
2021
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INFLATION
What It Is, Why It’s Bad, and How to Fix It
The cost-of-living explosion since the COVID pandemic has raised alarms
about a possible return of a 1970’s-style “Great Inflation.”
The authors say that today’s problems can be solved by discarding

longstanding beliefs such as the notion that central banks can create
prosperity through artificially creating money “out of thin air,” and also that
economic “stability” requires “a little inflation.”
The authors provide real world examples from the headlines and from history.
The book is a unique, real-world exploration of the subject that addresses
everyday concerns of Americans under siege by rising prices.
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Authored By
Steve Forbes, Nathan Lewis, Elizabeth Ames
Publication Date
2022
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MEGATHREATS
Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, And How to
Survive Them
Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini was nicknamed “Dr. Doom,” until his
prediction of the 2008 housing crisis and Great Recession came true--when
it was too late. Now he is back with a much scarier prediction, one that we
ignore at our peril. There are no fewer than ten overlapping, interconnected
threats that are so serious, he calls them Megathreats. From the worst debt
crisis the world has ever seen, to governments pumping out too much money,
to borders that are blocked to workers and to many shipments of goods, to
the rise of a new superpower competition between China and the U.S., to
climate change that strikes directly at our most populated cities, we are facing
not one, not two, but ten causes of disaster. There is a slight chance we can
avoid them, if we come to our senses—but we must act now.
In the 1970s, the U.S. faced stagflation: high rates of inflation combined with
stagnant employment and growth. Today, we are heading toward a Great
Stagflation that will make the 1970s look like a walk in the park.
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Authored By
Nouriel Roubini
Publication Date
2022
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NOTHING IS TRUE AND

EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE
The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia: into the lives
of Hells Angels convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the
souls of artists, bohemian theatre directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters,
supermodel sects, post-modern dictators and oligarch revolutionaries.
This is a world erupting with new money and new power, changing so fast
it breaks all sense of reality, where life is seen as a whirling, glamorous
masquerade where identities can be switched and all values are changeable.
It is home to a new form of authoritarianism, far subtler than 20th century
strains, and which is rapidly expanding to challenge the global order.
An extraordinary book - one which is as powerful and entertaining as it is

troubling - Nothing is True and Everything is Possible offers a wild ride into this
political and ethical vacuum.
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Authored By
Peter Pomerantsev
Publication Date
2014
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OVERREACH
How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise
China went from fragile superpower to global heavyweight, threatening
Taiwan as well as its neighbors in the South China Sea, tightening its grip on
Hong Kong, and openly challenging the United States for preeminence not
just economically and technologically but militarily. China began to overreach.
Shirk pries open the “black box” of China’s political system and looks at what
derailed its peaceful rise. When Xi Jinping took power in 2012, he capitalized
on widespread official corruption and open splits in the leadership to make
the case for more concentrated power at the top. In the decade following, and
to the present day―the eve of the 20th CCP Congress when he intends to
claim a third term―he has accumulated greater power than any leader since
Mao.
Here is a devastatingly lucid portrait of China today. Shirk’s extensive

interviews and meticulous analysis reveal the dynamics driving overreach.
To counter it, she argues, the worst mistake the rest of the world, and the
United States in particular, can make is to overreact. Understanding the
domestic roots of China’s actions will enable us to avoid the mistakes that
could lead to war.
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Authored By
Susan L. Shirk
Publication Date
2022
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PRISONERS OF GEOGRAPHY
Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us
things we want to know, not only about our current location or where we are
going but about the world in general. And yet, when it comes to geo-politics,
geography is not usually taken into consideration.
All leaders of nations are constrained by geography. The physical

characteristics of countries affect their strengths and vulnerabilities and the
decisions made by their leaders.
Marshall explains the complex geo-political strategies that shape the globe.
Prisoners of Geography is a concise and useful primer on geopolitics and a
critical guide to one of the major determining factors in world affairs.
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Tim Marshall
Publication Date
2015
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THE ABSENT SUPERPOWER

The Shale Revolution and a World Without America
The world is changing in ways most of us find incomprehensible. Yet, for
Americans, these changes are fantastic. Alone among the world’s powers,
only the United States is geographically wealthy, demographically robust, and
energy secure. That last piece - American energy security - is rapidly emerging
as the most critical piece of the global picture.
Author Peter Zeihan makes the case that geographic, demographic, and
energy trends were unraveling the global system. Zeihan takes the story a
step further, mapping out Russian aggression in Europe - starting with an
invasion of Ukraine - and a world where an increasingly energy independent
United States avoids the pitfalls of Europe and Asia’s dependence on
imported oil.
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Peter Zeihan
Publication Date
2016
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THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER

The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming
Global Disorder
Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold
strategic gambit that rewired the international system. Empires were abolished
and replaced by a global arrangement enforced by the U.S. Navy. With all the
world’s oceans safe for the first time in history, markets and resources were
made available for everyone. Enemies became partners. We think of this
system as normal - it is not. We live in an artificial world on borrowed time.
In The Accidental Superpower, international strategist Peter Zeihan examines

how the hard rules of geography are eroding the American commitment to
free trade; how much of the planet is aging into a mass retirement that will
enervate markets and capital supplies; and how, against all odds, it is the ever-
ravenous American economy that - alone among the developed nations - is
rapidly approaching energy independence.
These factors are doing nothing less than overturning the global system
and ushering in a new (dis)order. The shale revolution allows Americans to
sidestep an increasingly dangerous energy market. Only the United States
boasts a youth population large enough to escape the sucking maw of
global aging. Most important, geography will matter more than ever in a de-
globalizing world, and America’s geography is simply sublime.
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THE AGE OF WALLS

How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World
A new age of isolationism and economic nationalism is upon us. In fact, more
than a third of the world’s nation-states have barriers along their borders.
The Age of Walls is divided by geographic region. The author provides an

engaging context that is often missing from political discussion and draws
on his real life experiences as a reporter from hotspots around the globe. He
examines how walls, borders, and barriers have been shaping our political
landscape for hundreds of years, and especially since 2001, and how they
figure in the diplomatic relations and geo-political events of today.
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THE CHANGING WORLD ORDER

Why Nations Succeed and Fail
A few years ago, renowned investor Ray Dalio began noticing a confluence
of political and economic conditions he hadn’t encountered before in his fifty-
year career. They included large debts and zero or near-zero interest rates
in the world’s three major reserve currencies; significant wealth, political,
and values divisions within countries; and emerging conflict between a rising
world power (China) and the existing one (US). Seeking to explain the cause-
effect relationships behind these conditions, he began a study of analogous
historical times and discovered that such combinations of conditions were
characteristic of periods of transition, such as the years between 1930 and
1945, in which wealth and power shifted in ways that reshaped the world
order. Looking back across five hundred years of history and nine major
empires—including the Dutch, the British, and the American—The Changing
World Order puts into perspective the cycles and forces that have driven the
successes and failures of all the world’s major countries throughout history.
Dalio reveals the timeless and universal dynamics that were behind these
shifts, while also offering practical principles for policymakers, business
leaders, investors, and others operating in this environment.
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THE ECONOMIC WEAPON

The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First
developed in the early twentieth century as a way of exploiting the flows
of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they
function as an alternative to war. This view, however, ignores the dark paradox
at their core: designed to prevent war, economic sanctions are modeled on
devastating techniques of warfare.
Tracing the use of economic sanctions from the blockades of World War I to
the policing of colonial empires and the interwar confrontation with fascism,
Nicholas Mulder uses extensive archival research in a political, economic,
legal, and military history that reveals how a coercive wartime tool was
adopted as an instrument of peacekeeping by the League of Nations. This
timely study casts an overdue light on why sanctions are widely considered a
form of war, and why their unintended consequences are so tremendous.
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THE END OF THE EVERYTHING

BUBBLE
Why $75 Trillion Of Investor Wealth Is In Mortal Jeopardy
What makes the difference between an event like the Wall Street Crash of
1929 and a brief bear market?
Human behavior drives markets and when engagement becomes highly

speculative and manic a bull market can turn down in a flash. To many who
have made money in a bull market, history has proven that there is a high
probability that those times of pivotal high instability can lead to making
everyone much, much worse off.
The author examines the behaviors of markets. He shares insights into the all-
inclusive risks that some have called the “Everything Bubble”.
Nairn lays bare the level of danger with unprecedented detail and pieces
together the steps that brought us to the precipice. Lastly, he points out
options open to those willing to act now to avoid future harm to their wealth.
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THE END OF THE WORLD IS JUST

THE BEGINNING
Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper.
Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could
be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you
wanted it.
America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it
going.
Author Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or
regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food,
secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations
that are both shrinking and aging.
The list of countries that make it all work is smaller than you think. Which
means everything about our interconnected world - from how we manufacture
products, to how we grow food, to how we keep the lights on, to how we
shuttle stuff about, to how we pay for it all - is about to change.
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THE END OF THEORY

Financial Crises, the Failure of Economics, and the Sweep of
Human Interaction
Our economy may have recovered from the Great Recession―but not our
economics. In The End of Theory, Richard Bookstaber discusses why the
human condition and the radical uncertainty of our world renders the standard
economic model―and the theory behind it―useless for dealing with financial
crises. Bookstaber argues for a new approach called agent-based economics,
one that takes as a starting point the fact that we are humans, not the
optimizing automatons that standard economics assumes we are.
Bookstaber tackles issues such as radical uncertainty, when circumstances

take place beyond our anticipation, and emergence, when innocent, everyday
interactions combine to create sudden chaos. Starting with the realization that
future crises cannot be predicted by the past, he proposes an approach that
recognizes the human narrative while addressing market realities.
The End of Theory offers a novel and innovative perspective, along with a
realistic and human framework, to help prevent today’s financial system from
blowing up again.
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THE GREAT DEMOGRAPHIC

REVERSAL
Aging Societies, Waning Inequity, and an Inflation Revival
This book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and
globalization will shortly reverse three multi-decade global trends – it will raise
inflation and interest rates, but lead to a pullback in inequality. “Whatever the
future holds”, the authors argue, “it will be nothing like the past”.
Deflationary headwinds over the last three decades have been primarily due
to an enormous surge in the world’s available labor supply, owing to very
favorable demographic trends and the entry of China and Eastern Europe into
the world’s trading system. This book demonstrates how these demographic
trends are on the point of reversing sharply, coinciding with a retreat from
globalization.
Ageing can be expected to raise inflation and interest rates, bringing a slew
of problems for an over-indebted world economy, but is also anticipated to
increase the share of labor, so that inequality falls. Covering many social
and political factors, as well as those that are more purely macroeconomic,
the authors address topics including ageing, dementia, inequality, populism,
retirement and debt finance, among others.
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Charles Goodhart & Manoj Pradhan
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THE JUNGLE GROWS BACK

America and Our Imperiled World
Recent years have brought deeply disturbing developments around the globe.
American sentiment seems to be leaning increasingly toward withdrawal in
the face of such disarray.
In this essay, Robert Kagan elucidates the reasons why American withdrawal
would be the worst possible response, based as it is on a fundamental and
dangerous misreading of the world.
Like a jungle that keeps growing back after being cut down, the world has
always been full of dangerous actors who, left unchecked, possess the
desire and ability to make things worse. Kagan emphasizes the essential role
America has played, for decades, in keeping the world’s worst instability in
check.
A true realism, he argues, is based on the understanding that the historical

norm has always been toward chaos--that the jungle will grow back, if we let it.
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THE POWER OF CRISIS

How Three Threats - And Our Response - Will Change the World
In this revelatory, unnerving, and ultimately hopeful book, Bremmer details
how domestic and international conflicts leave us unprepared for a trio of
looming crises—global health emergencies, transformative climate change,
and the AI revolution. Today, Americans cannot reach consensus on any
significant political issue, and U.S. and Chinese leaders behave as if they’re
locked in a new Cold War. We are squandering opportunities to meet the
challenges that will soon confront us all.
In coming years, humanity will face viruses deadlier and more infectious than
Covid. Intensifying climate change will put tens of millions of refugees in flight
and require us to reimagine how we live our daily lives. Most dangerous of all,
new technologies will reshape the geopolitical order, disrupting our livelihoods
and destabilizing our societies faster than we can grasp and address their
implications.
Some farsighted political leaders, business decision-makers, and individual

citizens are already collaborating to tackle all these crises.
Bremmer shows us how we can use these coming crises to create the
worldwide prosperity and opportunity that 20th-century globalism promised
but failed to deliver.
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THE POWER OF GEOGRAPHY

Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
Tim Marshall’s Prisoners of Geography offered us a “fresh way of looking
at maps” (The New York Times Book Review), showing how every nation’s
choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas, and walls. Since then, the
geography hasn’t changed, but the world has.
Now, Marshall takes us into ten regions set to shape global politics. This is
“an immersive blend of history, economics, and political analysis that puts
geography at the center of human affairs” (Publishers Weekly).
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PRINCIPLES FOR DEALING WITH

THE CHANGING WORLD ORDER
Why Nations Succeed and Fail
A few years ago, Ray Dalio noticed a confluence of political and economic
conditions he hadn’t encountered before. They included huge debts and
zero or near-zero interest rates that led to massive printing of money in the
world’s three major reserve currencies; big political and social conflicts within
countries, especially the US, due to the largest wealth, political, and values
disparities in more than 100 years; and the rising of a world power (China) to
challenge the existing world power (US) and the existing world order. The last
time that this confluence occurred was between 1930 and 1945.
This realization sent Dalio on a search for the repeating patterns and cause/
effect relationships underlying all major changes in wealth and power over the
last 500 years.
In this remarkable and timely addition to his Principles series, Dalio brings
readers along for his study of the major empires—including the Dutch, the
British, and the American—putting into perspective the “Big Cycle” that has
driven the successes and failures of all the world’s major countries throughout
history.
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THE WORLD FOR SALE

Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s
Resources
The modern world is built on commodities - from the oil that fuels our cars to
the metals that power our smartphones.
We rarely stop to consider where they have come from. But we should.
The World for Sale lifts the lid on one of the least scrutinized corners of
the world economy: the billionaire commodity traders who buy, hoard, and
sell the earth’s resources. It is the story of how a handful of swashbuckling
businessmen became indispensable cogs in global markets, enabling an
enormous expansion in international trade and connecting resource-rich
countries - no matter how corrupt or war-torn - with the world’s financial
centers. The result is an eye-opening tour through the wildest frontiers of the
global economy, as well as a revelatory guide to how capitalism really
works.
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Javier Blas, Jack Farchy
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THIS IS NOT PROPAGANDA

Adventures in the War Against Reality Hardcover
When information is a weapon, every opinion is an act of war.
We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops,
hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very
reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our
sense of truth, we’ve lost not only our grip on peace and democracy — but our
very notion of what those words even mean.
Peter Pomerantsev takes us to the front lines of the disinformation age—

from Kiev to Manila--where he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up
populists, “behavioral change” salesmen, Jihadi fanboys, Identitarians, truth
cops, and many others. Forty years after his Ukrainian dissident parents were
pursued by the KGB, Pomerantsev finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great
propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia — but the answers
he finds there are not what he expected.
Blending reportage, family history, and intellectual adventure, This Is Not

Propaganda explores how we can reimagine our politics and ourselves when
reality seems to be coming apart.
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US VS. THEM
The Failure of Globalism
Those who championed globalization once promised a world of winners, one
in which free trade would lift all the world’s boats, and extremes of left and
right would give way to universally embraced liberal values. The past few
years have shattered this fantasy.
Ian Bremmer shows, in this eye-opening book, populism is still spreading.

Globalism creates plenty of both winners and losers, and those who’ve missed
out want to set things right. They’ve seen their futures made obsolete. They
hear new voices and see new faces all about them. They feel their cultures
shift. They don’t trust what they read. They’ve begun to understand the world
as a battle for the future that pits “us” vs. “them.”
Bremmer points to the next wave of global populism, one that hits emerging
nations before they have fully emerged. When human beings feel threatened,
we identify the danger and look for allies. We use the enemy, real or imagined,
to rally friends to our side. This book is about the ways in which people will
define these threats as fights for survival. It’s about the walls governments will
build to protect insiders from outsiders and the state from its people.
And it’s about what we can do about it.
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INVESTMENT
STRATEGY
INSIGHTS
7 Mistakes Every Investor Makes ��51

Joachim Klement
A Complete Guide to the Futures Market ��52
Jack D. Schwager and Mark Etzkorn
A Demon of Our Own Design��53
Richard Bookstaber
A Guide to Creating A Successful Algorithmic Trading Strategy ��54
Perry J. Kaufman
A Man for All Markets ��55
Edward O. Thorp
A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street ��56
Andrew W. Lo & A. Craig MacKinlay
A Random Walk Down Wall Street �� 57
Burton G. Malkiel
Active Value Investing ��58
Vitaliy N. Katsenelson
Algorithms to Live By��59
Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
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Alpha Trading��60
Perry J. Kaufman
Antifragile��61
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Beat the Dealer��62
Edward O. Thorp
Beat the Market ��63
Edward O. Thorp & Sheen T. Kassouf
Benjamin Grahams Net-Net Stock Strategy��64
Evan Bleker
Better than Alpha��65
Christopher M. Schelling
Beyond Diversification ��66
Sebastien Page
Building Reliable Trading Systems �� 67
Keith Fitschen
Central Banking 101 ��68
Joseph J. Wang
Dual Momentum Investing��69
Gary Antonacci
Dynamic Hedging�� 70
Efficiently Inefficient ��71
Lasse Heje Pedersen
Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns�� 72
Thomas Bulkowski
Expected Returns�� 73
Antti Ilmanen
Fewer, Richer, Greener �� 74
Laurence B. Siegel
Fooled by Randomness �� 75
Getting Back to Business �� 76
Daniel Peris
Global Asset Allocation �� 77
Mebane T. Faber
Global Value�� 78
Mebane T. Faber
Hedgehogging�� 79
Barton Biggs
How I Trade and Invest in Stocks and Bonds ��80
Richard D. Wyckoff
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How to Invest ��81
David M. Rubenstein
How to Make Money in Stocks��82
William J. O’Neil
In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio �� 83
Andrew W. Lo and Stephen R. Foerster
Investing Amid Low Expected Returns �� 84
Antti Ilmanen
Kaufman Constructs Trading Systems ��85
Perry J. Kaufman
Lecturing Birds on Flying��86
Pablo Triana, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Leveraged Trading�� 87
Robert Carver
Man of the Futures ��88
Leo Melamed
Market Sense and Nonsense ��89
Jack D. Schwager
Market Tremors ��90
Hari P. Krishnan, Ash Bennington
Mastering the Market Cycle ��91
Howard Marks
Narrative and Numbers ��92
Aswath Damodaran
Nerds on Wall Street��93
David J. Leinweber
Non-Consensus Investing ��94
Rupal J. Bhansali
One Up On Wall Street ��95
Peter Lynch & John Rothchild
Optimal Trading Strategies��96
Robert Kissell
Predatory Trading and Crowded Exits �� 97
James Clunie
Quantamental Investing��98
Dr. Qiwei Shi Hans Kullberg
Quantitative Trading ��99
Ernst P. Chan
Safe Haven�� 100
Mark Spitznagel
Skin in the Game �� 101
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Smart Portfolios �� 102
Robert Carver
Strategic Risk Management �� 103
Campbell R. Harvey, Sandy Rattray, Otto Van Hemert
Strategic Risk Taking�� 104
Aswath Damodaran
Systematic Trading �� 105
Robert Carver
Technical Analysis of Stock Trends �� 106
Robert D. Edwards, John Magee
The (mis)Behavior of Markets�� 107
Benoit Mandelbrot & Richard L. Hudson
The Allocator’s Edge�� 108
Phil Huber
The Alpha Formula �� 109
Chris Cain, Larry Connors
The Art of Execution �� 110
Lee Freeman-Shor
The Black Swan �� 111
The Economics of the Stock Market �� 112
Andrew Smithers
The Education of a Speculator�� 113
Victor Niederhoffer
The Encyclopedia of Technical Market Indicators�� 114
Robert W. Colby
The Evaluation and Optimiza-tion of Trading Strategies�� 115
Robert Pardo
The Flaw of Averages �� 116
Sam L. Savage, Jeff Danziger
The Fractal Geometry of Nature �� 117
Benoît B. Mandelbrot
The Handbook of Alternative Assets�� 118
Mark J. P. Anson
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf�� 119
John Coates
The Business One Irwin Guide to Trading Systems �� 120
Bruce Babcock
The Master Algorithm �� 121
Pedro Domingos
The Money Game�� 122
Adam Smith
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The Most Important Thing �� 123
Howard Marks
The New Rules for Investing Now�� 124
James O’Shaughnessy
The Next Perfect Trade �� 125
Alex Gurevich
The Price of Tomorrow �� 126
Jeff Booth
The Second Leg Down ��127
Hari P. Krishnan
The Systems Bible �� 128
John Gall
The Trades of March 2020�� 129
Alex Gurevich
The VIX Trader’s Handbook �� 130
Russell Rhoads
Timing Solutions for Swing Traders �� 131
Robert M. Lee & Peter Tryde
Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom �� 132
Van K. Tharp
Traders, Guns & Money �� 133
Satyajit Das
Trades About to Happen �� 134
David H. Weis
Trading for a Living �� 135
Alexander Elder
Trading Systems�� 136
Emilio Tomasini & Urban Jaekle
Trading Systems and Methods��137
Perry J. Kaufman
Trading Systems and Money Management�� 138
Thomas Stridsman
Trading Volatility �� 139
Colin Bennett
Treasury Bond Basis �� 140
Galen Burghardt & Terry Belton
Van Tharp’s Definitive Guide To Position Sizing�� 141
Van Tharp
Volatility Trading �� 142
Euan Sinclair
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars�� 143
Jim Paul & Brendan Moynihan
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What Works on Wall Street �� 144
When Prime Brokers Fail �� 145
J. S. Aikman
Winning the Loser’s Game �� 146
Charles D. Ellis
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius Even if You’re Not Too Smart ��147
Joel Greenblatt
Way of the Trader�� 148
Ian Murphy
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7 MISTAKES EVERY INVESTOR

MAKES
And How to Avoid Them
Seven Mistakes Every Investor Makes (And How To Avoid Them) calls upon
years of experience and scientific research to deliver expert insight into the
most common mistakes plaguing investors. From there, Klement outlines
his personal tools and techniques, developed, refined and successfully
implemented over many years in the finance industry, to help avoid and
mitigate such mistakes. His ultimate aim: to help you help yourself.
The mistakes covered include forecasting, short- and long-term orientation,

repeating past errors, confirmation bias, not delegating to experts, and blind
trust of traditional assumptions.
Seven Mistakes Every Investor Makes (And How to Avoid Them) is a must-
have guide for every investor. Packed with scientific research and personal
wisdom, this book draws together the most common investing mistakes in
order to practically reveal how to overcome and eliminate them.
Don’t make another avoidable mistake by missing out on this book.
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2020
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A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE

FUTURES MARKET
Technical Analysis, Trading Systems, Fundamental Analysis,
Options, Spreads, and Trading Principles
This fully revised and updated edition provides a solid foundation in futures
market basics, details key analysis and forecasting techniques, explores
advanced trading concepts, and illustrates the practical application of these
ideas with hundreds of market examples. A Complete Guide to the Futures
Market:
• Details different trading and analytical approaches, including chart analysis,

technical indicators and trading systems, regression analysis, and basic
models.
• Step-by-step instructions for developing and testing trading ideas and
systems.
• Illustrates a wide range of option strategies, and explains the trading
implications of each.
• Details a wealth of practical trading guidelines and market insights from a
recognized trading authority.
• Trading futures without a firm grasp of this market’s realities and nuances is
a recipe for losing money. A Complete Guide to the Futures Market offers
serious traders and investors the tools to keep themselves on the right side
of the ledger.
Authored By
Jack D. Schwager and Mark Etzkorn
Publication Date
2017
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A DEMON OF OUR OWN DESIGN

Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation
Inside markets, innovation, and risk. Why do markets keep crashing and why
are financial crises greater than ever before? As the risk manager to some
of the leading firms on Wall Street-from Morgan Stanley to Salomon and
Citigroup-and a member of some of the world’s largest hedge funds, from
Moore Capital to Ziff Brothers and FrontPoint Partners, Rick Bookstaber has
seen the ghost inside the machine and vividly shows us a world that is even
riskier than we think.
The very things done to make markets safer, have, in fact, created a world that
is far more dangerous. From the 1987 crash to Citigroup closing the Salomon
Arb unit, from staggering losses at UBS to the demise of Long-Term Capital
Management, Bookstaber gives readers a front row seat to the management
decisions made by some of the most powerful financial figures in the world
that led to catastrophe, and describes the impact of his own activities on
markets and market crashes. Much of the innovation of the last 30 years has
wreaked havoc on the markets and cost trillions of dollars. A Demon of Our
Own Design tells the story of man’s attempt to manage market risk and what
it has wrought. In the process of showing what we have done, Bookstaber
shines a light on what the future holds for a world where capital and power
have moved from Wall Street institutions to elite and highly leveraged hedge
funds.
Authored By
Richard Bookstaber
Publication Date
2017
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A GUIDE TO CREATING A
SUCCESSFUL ALGORITHMIC
TRADING STRATEGY
If you’re looking to develop a successful career in algorithmic trading, this
book has you covered from idea to execution as you learn to develop a
trader’s insight and turn it into profitable strategy. Coverage includes learning
to recognize opportunities and identify a sound premise, and detailed
discussion on seasonal patterns, interest rate based trends, volatility, weekly
and monthly patterns, the 3-day cycle, and much more— with an emphasis
on trading as the best teacher. By actually making trades, you concentrate
your attention on the market, absorb the effects on your money, and quickly
resolve problems that impact profits.
Algorithmic trading began as a “ridiculous” concept in the 1970s, then became

an “unfair advantage” as it evolved into the lynchpin of a successful trading
strategy and will help you effectively reap the benefits of this important
trading method.
Algorithmic trading strategies are everywhere, but they’re not all equally
valuable. It’s far too easy to fall for something that worked brilliantly in the
past, but with little hope of working in the future. A Guide to Creating a
Successful Algorithmic Trading Strategy shows you how to choose the best,
leave the rest, and make more money from your trades.
Authored By
Perry J. Kaufman
Publication Date
2016
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A MAN FOR ALL MARKETS

From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the
Market
The incredible true story of the card-counting mathematics professor
who taught the world how to beat the dealer and, as the first of the great
quantitative investors, ushered in a revolution on Wall Street.
Legendary mathematician Edward O. Thorp invented card counting, proving

the seemingly impossible: that you could beat the dealer at the blackjack
table. His remarkable success and mathematically unassailable method
caused such an uproar that casinos altered the rules of the game to thwart
him and the legions he inspired. Gambling was forever changed.
Subsequently, Thorp shifted his sights to “the biggest casino in the world” Wall
Street. Thorp ushered in the era of quantitative finance we live in today. Along
the way, the so-called godfather of the quants played bridge with Warren
Buffett, crossed swords with a young Rudy Giuliani, detected the Bernie
Madoff scheme, and, to beat the game of roulette, invented, with Claude
Shannon, the world’s first wearable computer.
Thorp tells the story of what he did, how he did it, his passions and
motivations, and the curiosity that has driven him to disregard conventional
wisdom and devise solutions to seemingly insoluble problems.
Authored By
Edward O. Thorp
Publication Date
2018
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A NON-RANDOM WALK DOWN

WALL STREET
For over half a century, financial experts have regarded the movements of
markets as a random walk--upredictable meanderings akin to a drunkard’s
unsteady gait--and this hypothesis has become a cornerstone of modern
financial economics and many investment strategies. Here Andrew W. Lo
and A. Craig MacKinlay put the Random Walk Hypothesis to the test. In this
volume, which elegantly integrates their most important articles, Lo and
MacKinlay find that markets are not completely random after all, and that
predictable components do exist in recent stock and bond returns.
The articles track the exciting course of Lo and MacKinlay’s research on the
predictability of stock prices from their early work on rejecting random walks
in short-horizon returns to their analysis of long-term memory in stock market
prices. A particular highlight is their now-famous inquiry into the pitfalls of
“data-snooping biases” that have arisen from the widespread use of the same
historical databases for discovering anomalies and developing seemingly
profitable investment strategies. This book invites scholars to reconsider
the Random Walk Hypothesis, and, by carefully documenting the presence
of predictable components in the stock market, also directs investment
professionals toward superior long-term investment returns through
disciplined active investment management.
Authored By
Andrew W. Lo & A. Craig MacKinlay
Publication Date
2002
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A RANDOM WALK DOWN WALL

STREET
The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
Today’s stock market is not for the faint of heart. At a time of frightening
volatility, what is the average investor to do?
The answer: turn to Burton G. Malkiel’s advice in his reassuring, authoritative,

gimmick-free, and perennially best-selling guide to investing. Long established
as the first book to purchase before starting a portfolio or 401(k), A Random
Walk Down Wall Street now features new material on “tax-loss harvesting,” the
crown jewel of tax management; the current bitcoin bubble; and automated
investment advisers; as well as a brand-new chapter on factor investing and
risk parity. And as always, Malkiel’s core insights—on stocks and bonds, as
well as real estate investment trusts, home ownership, and tangible assets
like gold and collectibles— along with the book’s classic life-cycle guide to
investing, will help restore confidence and composure to anyone seeking a
calm route through today’s financial markets.
Authored By
Burton G. Malkiel
Publication Date
1973
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ACTIVE VALUE INVESTING

Making Money in Range Bound Markets
One of the most significant challenges facing today’s active investor is how to make
money during the times when markets are going nowhere. There is little guidance on
how to invest in range bound markets.
In this book, author and respected investment portfolio manager Vitaliy Katsenelson
makes a convincing case for range-bound market conditions and offers readers a
practical strategy for proactive investing that improves profits. This guide provides
investors with the know-how to modify the traditional, fundamentally driven strategies
that they have become so accustomed to using in bull markets, so that they can work in
range bound markets. It offers new approaches to margin of safety and presents terrific
insights into buy and sell disciplines, international investing, “Quality, Valuation, and
Growth” framework, and much more.
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Vitaliy N. Katsenelson
Publication Date
2007
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ALGORITHMS TO LIVE BY
The Computer Science of Human Decisions
A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be
applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making
problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind.
All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to
a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day
or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new
activities and familiar favorites is the most fulfilling? These may seem like
uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same
constraints, so computer scientists have been grappling with their version of
such issues for decades. And the solutions they’ve found have much to teach
us.
In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, acclaimed author Brian Christian and

cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths show how the algorithms used by computers
can also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better
hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming
choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding
a parking spot, from organizing one’s inbox to understanding the workings of
memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science
into strategies for human living.
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Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
Publication Date
2016
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ALPHA TRADING
Profitable Strategies That Remove Directional Risk
From a leading trading systems developer, how to make profitable trades
when there are no obvious trends How does a trader find alpha when markets
make no sense, when price shocks cause diversification to fail, and when it
seems impossible to hedge? What strategies should traders, long conditioned
to trend trading, deploy? In Alpha Trading: Profitable Strategies That Remove
Directional Risk, author Perry Kaufman presents strategies and systems for
profitably trading in directionless markets and in those experiencing constant
priceshocks.
The book details how to exploit new highs and lows Describes how to hedge
primary risk components, find robustness, and craft a diversification program
Other titles by Kaufman: New Trading Systems and Methods, 4th Edition and
A Short Course in Technical Trading, both by Wiley Given Kaufman’s 30 years
of experience trading in almost every kind of market, his Alpha Trading will
be a welcome addition to the trading literature of professional and serious
individual traders for years to come.
Authored By
Perry J. Kaufman
Publication Date
2011
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ANTIFRAGILE
Things That Gain from Disorder
From the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost
philosophers of our time, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a book on how some
systems actually benefit from disorder.
In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem; in Antifragile he offers a definitive

solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from
fragilities and adverse events. For what he calls the “antifragile” is one step
beyond robust, as it benefits from adversity, uncertainty and stressors, just as
human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension.
Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, and proposing

that things be built in an antifragile manner. Extremely ambitious and
multidisciplinary, Antifragile provides a blueprint for how to behave-and thrive-
in a world we don’t understand and which is too uncertain for us to even try
to understand. He who is not antifragile will perish. Why is the city state better
than the nation state, why is debt bad for you, and why is almost everything
modern bound to fail? The book covers innovation, health, biology, medicine,
life decisions, politics, foreign policy, urban planning, war, personal finance,
and economic systems. Throughout, the voice and recipes of the ancient
wisdom from Phoenician, Roman, Greek, and Medieval sources are heard
loud and clear.
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BEAT THE DEALER

A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One
Edward O. Thorp is the father of card counting, and in this classic guide he
shares the revolutionary point system that has been successfully used by
professional and amateur card players for generations. This book provides:
• An overview of the basic rules of the game.

• Proven winning strategies ranging from simple to advanced.
• Methods to overcome casino counter measures.
• Ways to spot cheating.
• Charts and tables that clearly illustrate key concepts.
A fascinating read and an indispensable resource for winning big, Beat the
Dealer is the bible for players of this game of chance.
Authored By
Edward O. Thorp
Publication Date
1962
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BEAT THE MARKET

A Scientific Stock Market System
The book offers step-by-step instructions, with explanatory, charts and tables,
whereby anyone with 2000.00$ brokerage account can conduct his own
investment program. Details are given of actual investments made by the
authors, one of whom more then doubled $100,000 in five years.
Authored By
Edward O. Thorp & Sheen T. Kassouf
Publication Date
1967
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BENJAMIN GRAHAMS NET-NET

STOCK STRATEGY
A practical guide to successful deep value investing in today’s
markets
This book is a guide to implementing net-net stock strategy. Benjamin Graham
swore by this strategy in 1975 and Warren Buffet endorsed this strategy in
2014. The author has spent a decade studying Graham’s strategy and looking
at its real-world performance.
The author has compiled an ultimately practical guide to implementing net-net

stock strategy – and reaping the rewards – in today’s markets.
In this book, Evan defines the strategy for investors, then walks readers
through the strategy’s philosophy, as well as academic and industry studies
assessing the framework and its implementation.
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Evan Bleker
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2020
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BETTER THAN ALPHA

Three Steps to Capturing Excess Returns in a Changing World
The authors explain why strategies based on “beating the markets” are
doomed to failure and provides a simple three-step framework for making
better investment decisions.
This book takes a look at what it takes to understand what drives investment
returns, how superstar investment managers generated excess returns in the
past, and why strategies that worked in the past don’t necessarily make sense
today.
Better Than Alpha walks you through the process of minimizing the impacts
of behavioral biases and making decisions that create a higher probability of
meeting your objectives.
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Christopher M. Schelling
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BEYOND DIVERSIFICATION
What Every Investor Needs to Know About Asset Allocation
Asset allocation is the key to investing performance. Unfortunately, no single
approach works perfectly―developing the right balance requires a clear-eyed
look at the many models available to you, various investing methodologies,
and your or your client’s level of risk tolerance. And that’s where this important
guide comes in.
This book is a deep dive into the how’s and why’s of asset allocation and
is organized by the three decisive components of a successfully allocated
portfolio: Return Forecasting, Risk Forecasting, and Portfolio Construction.
The real world examples, used by the author, help to bring to life the concepts
and approaches outlined in the book.
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Sebastien Page
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BUILDING RELIABLE TRADING

SYSTEMS
Tradable Strategies That Perform as They Backtest and Meet
Your Risk-Reward Goals
Traders have long been drawn to the idea of translating their strategies
and ideas into trading systems. While successful trading systems have
been developed, in most cases, they work very well for a period of time in
specific markets, but perform less well across all markets in all time frames.
Nobody understands this better than Keith Fitschen — a thought-leader in
trading system development — and now, with “Trading Strategy Generation +
Website,” he shares his extensive experience in this field with you.
“Trading Strategy Generation” skillfully explains how to take market insights

or trading ideas and develop them into a robust trading system. In it, Fitschen
describes the critical steps a trader needs to follow, including: translating
the market insight into a rules-based approach; determining entry and exit
points; testing against historical data; and integrating money management
and position sizing into the system. The author details exactly what it takes to
build, test, and implement a profitable technical trading system. Written with
the serious trader in mind, “Trading Strategy Generation” is an accessible
guide to building a system that will generate realistic returns over time.
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Keith Fitschen
Publication Date
2013
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CENTRAL BANKING 101

The Federal Reserve is one of the most powerful institutions in the world, and
also one of the most difficult to understand.
The Fed acts through its Open Markets Desk, which sits at the heart of the
global financial system as the world’s ultimate and limitless provider of dollars.
On behalf of policy makers, the Desk gathers market intelligence from all
the major market participants, sifts through reams of internal data, and works
behind the scenes to keep the financial system intact. The financial crises
of 2008 and 2020 abated only through the emergency interventions of the
Desk.
Joseph Wang spent five years studying the monetary system as a trader on
the Desk. This book is a distillation of his experience that aims to educate and
demystify.
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Joseph J. Wang
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DUAL MOMENTUM INVESTING

An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk
Dual Momentum Investing details the author’s own momentum investing
method that combines U.S. stock, non-U.S. stock, and aggregate bond
indices--in a formula proven to dramatically increase profits while lowering
risk. Antonacci reveals how momentum investors could have achieved
long-run returns nearly twice as high as the stock market over the past 40
years, while avoiding or minimizing bear market losses--and he provides the
information and insight investors need to achieve such success going forward.
His methodology, supported by rigorous academic research, is designed to
pick up on major changes in relative strength and market trend.
“This is an excellent book on the various forms of price momentum and why
they work, including a very clever way to use them. I highly recommend
investors read this book.” - James P. O’Shaughnessy, author, What Works on
Wall Street, Chairman and CEO of O’Shaughnessy Asset Management
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Gary Antonacci
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DYNAMIC HEDGING
Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options
Written by a leading options trader and derivatives risk advisor to global banks
and exchanges, this book provides a practical, real-world methodology for
monitoring and managing all the risks associated with portfolio management.
Fills a big gap in investment literature -- the only book to sharecomplex
options trading strategies and advanced risk management methods with
trading professionals.
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EFFICIENTLY INEFFICIENT
How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined
Efficiently Inefficient describes the key trading strategies used by hedge
funds and demystifies the secret world of active investing. Leading financial
economist Lasse Heje Pedersen combines the latest research with real-world
examples and interviews with top hedge fund managers to show how certain
trading strategies make money--and why they sometimes don’t.
Pedersen views markets as neither perfectly efficient nor inefficient. Rather,

they are inefficient enough that money managers can be compensated for
their costs through the profits of their trading strategies and efficient enough
that the profits after costs do not encourage additional active investing.
Pedersen analyzes how the market price of stocks and bonds can differ from
the model price, leading to new perspectives on the relationship between
trading results and finance theory. He explores several different areas in
depth--fundamental tools for investment management, equity strategies,
macro strategies, and arbitrage strategies--and he looks at such diverse
topics as portfolio choice, risk management, equity valuation, and yield curve
logic. The book’s strategies are illuminated further by interviews with leading
hedge fund managers: Lee Ainslie, Cliff Asness, Jim Chanos, Ken Griffin, David
Harding, John Paulson, Myron Scholes, and George Soros.
Efficiently Inefficient effectively demonstrates how financial markets really

work.
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Lasse Heje Pedersen
Publication Date
2015
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHART
PATTERNS
Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns, Third Edition expands upon Bulkowski’s
Second Edition with fully revised and updated material on chart patterns.
The author provides insights into identifying chart patterns, chart patterns as
they relate to stop loss orders, chart pattern performance, and trading busted
patterns.
This book is a comprehensive guide to this method of market analysis. The

edition includes revised statistics on 75 chart patterns in an easy-to-read
format.
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Thomas Bulkowski
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EXPECTED RETURNS
An Investor’s Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards
This book is about harvesting market rewards from a wide range of
investments. It discusses how to forecast returns under different parameters.
Expected returns of major asset classes, investment strategies, and the effects
of underlying risk factors such as growth, inflation, liquidity, and different risk
perspectives, are also explained.
The approach outlined in this book is premised on the concept that judging
expected returns requires balancing historical returns with both theoretical
considerations and current market conditions. The author relies on extensive
empirical evidence, surveys of risk-based and behavioral theories, and
practical insights.
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Antti Ilmanen
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FEWER, RICHER, GREENER

Prospects for Humanity in an Age of Abundance
Despite our world seemingly being inundated, from all sides, by everything
from stagnant economic growth to climate deterioration, the author reveals
that the world has improved—and will continue to improve—in almost every
dimension imaginable.
This practical yet lighthearted book makes a convincing case for having
gratitude for today’s world and optimism about the bountiful world of
tomorrow. Life has actually improved tremendously. We live in the safest,
most prosperous time in all human history. Technology is helping billions of
people rise above levels of mere subsistence. This technology of prosperity is
cumulative and rapidly improving.
This book is a must-read for anyone who wishes to regain hope for the
present and wants to build a better future.
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Laurence B. Siegel
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FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS
The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Taleb sets forth the idea that modern humans are often unaware of the
existence of randomness. They tend to explain random outcomes as non-
random.
Human beings:
• Overestimate causality, e.g., they see elephants in the clouds instead of
understanding that they are in fact randomly shaped clouds that appear to
our eyes as elephants (or something else)
• Tend to view the world as more explainable than it really is. So they look for
explanations even when there are none.
Other misperceptions of randomness that are discussed include:

• Survivorship bias. We see the winners and try to learn from them, while
forgetting the huge number of losers.
• Skewed distributions. Many real life phenomena are not 50:50 bets like
tossing a coin, but have various unusual and counter-intuitive distributions.
According to Taleb: “Option sellers, it is said, eat like chickens and go to the
bathroom like elephants”, which is to say, option sellers may earn a steady
small income from selling the options, but when a disaster happens they lose
a fortune.
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GETTING BACK TO BUSINESS

Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors
We are in a time of enormous risk. Economic growth is anemic, and political
risk to the capital markets is on the rise. In the US, a generation of white-collar
baby boomers is heading into retirement with insufficient assets in their 401(k)
programs, and industrial workers are stuck with materially underfunded pen-
sion plans.
This book is set against the backdrop of challenging times and the investing
industry’s current set of practices and assumptions - modern portfolio theory
(MPT) - is based on a half-century-old formula that is supposed to deliver the
maximum amount of return for a given amount of risk.
In Getting Back to Business, author Daniel Peris proposes a radical new ap-
proach that does away with MPT in favor of a more intuitive, common-sense
approach practiced by business people in their own affairs everyday: cash
returns on cash investments.
Balancing detailed historical evidence with a practitioner’s real-world exper-

tise, Peris asks questions that point to a solution that makes sense in today’s
challenging investing landscape.
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Daniel Peris
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2018
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GLOBAL ASSET ALLOCATION

A Survey of the World’s Top Asset Allocation Strategies
With all of our focus on assets - and how much and when to allocate them -
are we missing the bigger picture?
Our book begins by reviewing the historical performance record of popular

assets like stocks, bonds, and cash. We look at the impact inflation has on
our money. We then start to examine how diversification through combining
assets, in this case a simple stock and bond mix, works to mitigate the
extreme drawdowns of risky asset classes.
But we go beyond a limited stock/bond portfolio to consider a more global

allocation that also takes into account real assets. We track 13 assets and
their returns since 1973, with particular attention to a number of well-known
portfolios, like Ray Dalio’s All Weather portfolio, the Endowment portfolio,
Warren Buffett’s suggestion, and others. And what we find is that, with a few
notable exceptions, many of the allocations have similar exposures.
And yet, while we are all busy paying close attention to our portfolio’s
particular allocation of assets, the greatest impact on our portfolios may be
something we fail to notice altogether.
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Mebane T. Faber
Publication Date
2015
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GLOBAL VALUE
How to Spot Bubbles, Avoid Market Crashes, and Earn Big
Returns
Investment bubbles and speculative manias have existed for as long as
humans have been involved in markets. Is it possible for investors to identify
emerging bubbles and then profit from their inflation? Likewise, can investors
avoid the bursting of these bubbles, and the extreme volatility and losses
found in their aftermath to survive to invest another day?
Over 70 years ago, Benjamin Graham and David Dodd proposed valuing
stocks with earnings smoothed across multiple years. Robert Shiller later
popularized this method with his version of the cyclically adjusted price-to-
earnings (CAPE) ratio in the late 1990s and correctly issued a timely warning of
poor stock returns to follow in the coming years. We apply this valuation metric
across more than 40 foreign markets and find it both practical and useful.
Indeed, we witness even greater examples of bubbles and busts abroad than
in the United States. We then create a trading system to build global stock
portfolios, and find significant outperformance by selecting markets based on
relative and absolute valuation.
Authored By
Mebane T. Faber
Publication Date
2014
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HEDGEHOGGING
Rare is the opportunity to chat with a legendary financial figure and hear
the unvarnished truth about what really goes on behind the scenes.
Hedgehogging represents just such an opportunity, allowing you to step
inside the world of Wall Street with Barton Biggs as he discusses investing in
general, hedge funds in particular, and how he has learned to find and profit
from the best moneymaking opportunities in an eat-what-you-kill, cutthroat
investment world.
Authored By
Barton Biggs
Publication Date
2008
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HOW I TRADE AND INVEST IN

STOCKS AND BONDS
Being Some Methods Evolved and Adopted During MyThirty-
three Years Experience in Wall Street
Richard Wyckoff was a Wall Street legend. Not only did he make a fortune,
but he also was the longtime editor and publisher of The Magazine of Wall
Street and the developer of successful methods to analyze and forecast the
market. In this book, originally published in 1922, Wyckoff lays out his insider’s
knowledge for everyone, especially those who are willing to study before
risking one’s own money. After all, he wrote, “”in Wall Street as anywhere
else, the chief essential is common sense, coupled with study and practical
experience.”” He covers topics such as the six rules he’s found helpful, why
he adopted Harriman’s principle, what he looks for before buying a bond, the
earmarks of a desirable investment, the importance of knowing who owns a
stock, and how to recognize manipulation in the market.
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Richard D. Wyckoff
Publication Date
2019
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HOW TO INVEST
Masters on the Craft
David M. Rubenstein spent years interviewing the greatest investors in the
world to discover the time-tested principles, wisdom, and tools that guide their
practice. Rubenstein spent more than three decades in the hypercompetitive
world of private equity, now distills everything he’s learned about the art and
craft of investing, from venture capital, real estate, private equity, hedge funds,
to crypto, endowments, SPACs, ESG, and more.
• How did Stan Druckenmiller short the British pound in one trade for a
profit of $1 billion dollars?
• What made Sam Zell the best real estate investors in the world?
• How did Mike Novogratz make $250 million off crypto in one year?
• How did Larry Fink build BlackRock from scratch into a firm that
manages more than $10 trillion?
• How did Mary Callahan Erdoes rise to the top of J.P. Morgan’s wealth
management division, managing over $4 trillion all over the world?
• How did Seth Klarman perfect value investing to consistently deliver net
returns of nearly 20 percent?
How to Invest reveals the thinking of the most successful investors in the
world. Whether you’re brand-new to investing or a seasoned professional,
this book will transform the way you approach investing forever.
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David M. Rubenstein
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HOW TO MAKE MONEY IN STOCKS

A Winning System in Good Times or Bad
The third edition of a practical rule book for becoming an investment
professional. It offers guidance for those who want to make smart investments
- even if they’ve never owned stocks before. This updated edition includes
new concepts, improved chart graphics and new research tools. Key issues
include: making money reading the daily financial pages; picking the best
industry groups in the market; reading charts to improve stock selection and
timing; reducing losses and mistakes; and turning a profit from reading and
analyzing the news.
Authored By
William J. O’Neil
Publication Date
1988
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IN PURSUIT OF THE PERFECT

PORTFOLIO
The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who
Shaped the Way We Invest
Is there a Perfect Portfolio of assets for investors, one that offers the ideal
mix of risk and reward? Over the past decade the authors have asked this
question of ten prominent iconic figures and thought leaders in the industry
- Harry Markowitz, Bill Sharpe, Gene Fama, Jack Bogle, Myron Scholes, Bob
Merton, Marty Leibowitz, Bob Shiller, Charley Ellis, and Jeremy Siegel - and
their answers were both expected and unexpected.
This book is about the people and their pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio. While
working towards this goal, they faced a number of important questions such
as (to list a few of the questions tackled in the book):
• What do we really mean by diversification, and why is it important?

• How should performance be measured?
• How important are different equity styles, such as small cap and value?
• How should one approach investing when other investors may not be
acting rationally?
In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio provides insight into these questions and
more.
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Andrew W. Lo and Stephen R. Foerster
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INVESTING AMID LOW EXPECTED

RETURNS
Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least
For a generation, falling yields and soaring asset prices have boosted realized
returns. However, this past windfall leaves retirement savers and investors
now facing the prospect of record-low future expected returns. Emphasizing
this pressing challenge, the book highlights the role that timeless investment
practices – discipline, humility, and patience – will play in enabling investment
success. It then assesses current investor practices and the body of empirical
evidence to illuminate the building blocks for improving long-run returns in
today’s environment and beyond. It concludes by reviewing how to put them
together through effective portfolio construction, risk management, and cost
control practices.
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Antti Ilmanen
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KAUFMAN CONSTRUCTS TRADING

SYSTEMS
This is a step-by-step guide to developing a successful trading system
for stocks and futures. Perry Kaufman is recognized as one of the leading
developers and consultants in the financial industry, with a successful trading
record that goes back 40 years. He is the author of “Trading Systems and
Methods, 6th Edition,” said to be the most definitive book in its field.”Kaufman
Constructs Trading Systems” not only answer key questions about trading
systems and development that were asked by attendees at his conferences,
it takes the process to another level, giving more examples of systems
and covering far more topics that are essential to success. It has also been
published as an ebook so that it can be easily accessed worldwide.
Readers will find a complete discussion of trends systems, mean reversion

methods, and both daily and intraday trading systems. Mr. Kaufman explains
why certain markets are better for trend systems while others are best for
mean reversion. He gives you a deep understanding of the principles that
make systems profitable. He steps you through the entire process from the
idea to the rules, from testing to deciding on the final model.There are two
other valuable sections in this book. The first is the evaluation of risk, and
ways to control it. Without proper risk control there can be no success. The
second is determining stock or commodity selection when creating a portfolio.
Years of experience have gone into the rules for stock selection, although
they turn out to be very simple.This easy to read book will be a most valuable
addition to your library to help you on the road to success.
Authored By
Perry J. Kaufman
Publication Date
2020
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LECTURING BIRDS ON FLYING

Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Financial Markets?
For the past few decades, the financial world has often displayed an
unreasonable willingness to believe that “the model is right, the market is
wrong”, in spite of the fact that these theoretical machinations were largely
responsible for multple crashes throughout history. Nassim Taleb first
addressed the conflicts between theoretical and real finance in his technical
treatise on options, Dynamic Hedging. In this book, Pablo Triana offers a
powerful indictment on the trustworthiness of financial theory, explaining—in
jargon-free plain English—how malfunctions in these quantitative machines
have wreaked havoc in our real world.
Triana first analyzes the fundamental question of whether financial markets

can be solved mathematically. He shows that the markets cannot be tamed
with equations, presenting a list of obstacles to prove his point: maverick
unlawful human actions rule the markets, unexpected and unimaginable
events shape the markets, and historical data is not necessarily a trustworthy
guide to the future of the markets. He details how the field of financial
economics evolved from a descriptive discipline to an abstract.He explains
how Wall Street and other financial centers became eager employers of
scientists, and how scientists became eager employees of financial firms.
Authored By
Pablo Triana, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Publication Date
2009
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LEVERAGED TRADING
A professional approach to trading FX, stocks on margin, CFDs,
spread bets and futures for all traders
With the right broker, and just a few hundred dollars or pounds, anyone can
become a leveraged trader. The products and tools needed are accessible
to all: FX, a margin account, CFDs, spread-bets and futures. But this level
playing field comes with great risks. Trading with leverage is inherently
dangerous. With leverage, losses and costs – the two great killers for traders
– are magnified. This does not mean leverage must be avoided altogether,
but it does mean that it needs to be used safely. In Leveraged Trading, Robert
Carver shows you how to do exactly that, by using a trading system. A trading
system can be employed to tackle those twin dangers of serious losses and
high costs.
The trading systems introduced in this book are simple and carefully designed
to use the correct amount of leverage and trade at a suitable frequency.
Robert shows how to trade a simple Starter System on its own, on a single
instrument and with a single rule for opening positions. He then moves on
to show how the Starter System can be adapted, as you gain experience
and confidence. The system can be diversified into multiple instruments and
new trading rules can be added. For those who wish to go further still, advice
on making more complex improvements is included. For those trading with
leverage, looking for a way to take a controlled approach and manage risk, a
properly designed trading system is the answer.
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Robert Carver
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MAN OF THE FUTURES

The Story of Leo Melamed and the Birth of Modern Finance
As the founder of financial futures and initiator of Globex, the world’s first
global electronic trading system, Leo Melamed revolutionized the finance
industry. Man of the Futures, his definitive memoir, recounts Melamed’s
journey from Holocaust survivor and accidental runner at the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange (CME), to one of the most prominent leaders in the world
of finance.
At 33, Melamed gave up a promising law career to pursue his dream of

becoming a full-time pit-trader at the CME. He quickly ascended the ranks
to become chairman. From there, he set out to disrupt the status quo and
ultimately transform both the exchange itself and the broader finance industry.
Together with behind-the-scenes reminiscences about the financial markets,

this narrative delves into Melamed’s philanthropic work at the US Holocaust
Memorial Museum, as well as his fascinating dealings with political figures at
home in Chicago, at the White House, and around the world in China, Japan,
Singapore, Great Britain, Russia, South Korea, and Brazil.
Man of the Futures offers exclusive access to the rationale behind some of the
biggest financial decisions and dealings in the late 20th and early 21st century.
Join Leo Melamed for this fascinating and revealing story of a life lived in
pursuit of the future.
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MARKET SENSE AND NONSENSE

How the Markets Really Work (and How They Don’t)
Investment errors are hardly the exclusive domain of novice investors.
Investment professionals commit their own share of routine errors. One
common error that manifests itself in many different forms is the tendency
to draw conclusions based on insufficient or irrelevant data. The housing
bubble of the 2000s provided a classic example. This book is a compilation
of the fundamental investment errors the author has observed over his
career in the markets. Errors that permeate widely accepted academic
precepts, professional money management methodologies, and investment
behavior. This book will be insightful to professionals and yet readable by the
broader audience with an interest in investment, trading, and finance. This
book combines multiple concepts, spanning both traditional and alternative
investments, and topics ranging from basic to sophisticated, into a single
accessible book.” How Markets Really Work” challenges many of the concepts
that are at the core of both investment theory and practice.
Authored By
Jack D. Schwager
Publication Date
2012
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MARKET TREMORS
Modern markets have been influenced by a combination of Central Bank
policy, disintermediation of commercial banks through regulation, and the
growth of passive products such as ETFs.
This book takes a look at various ways of dealing with the credit, positioning
and liquidity risk that investors face in the modern age. The book asserts that
due to the influence that banks and regulations have exerted, volatility is no
longer providing an accurate barometer of true risk.
The authors have drawn from the fields of statistical physics and game theory
to simplify and quantify the impact of very large agents on the distribution of
forward returns.
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Hari P. Krishnan, Ash Bennington
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MASTERING THE MARKET CYCLE

Getting the Odds on Your Side
The legendary investor shows how to identify and master the cycles that
govern the markets.
We all know markets rise and fall, but when should you pull out, and when
should you stay in? The answer is never black or white, but is best reached
through a keen understanding of the reasons behind the rhythm of cycles.
Confidence about where we are in a cycle comes when you learn the patterns
of ups and downs that influence not just economics, markets and companies,
but also human psychology and the investing behaviors that result.
If you study past cycles, understand their origins and remain alert for the
next one, you will become keenly attuned to the investment environment
as it changes. You’ll be aware and prepared while others get blindsided by
unexpected events or fall victim to emotions like fear and greed.
By following Marks’s insights — drawn in part from his iconic memos over the
years to Oaktree’s clients — you can master these recurring patterns to have
the opportunity to improve your results.
Authored By
Howard Marks
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2018
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NARRATIVE AND NUMBERS

The Value of Stories in Business
Through a range of case studies, Narrative and Numbers describes how
storytellers can better incorporate and narrate numbers and how number-
crunchers can calculate more imaginative models that withstand scrutiny.
Aswath considers Uber’s debut and how narrative is key to understanding

different valuations. He investigates why Twitter and Facebook were valued
in the billions of dollars at their public offerings, and why one (Twitter)
has stagnated while the other (Facebook) has grown. Damodaran also
looks at more established business models such as Apple and Amazon
to demonstrate how a company’s history can both enrich and constrain its
narrative. And through Vale, a global Brazil-based mining company, he shows
the influence of external narrative, and how country, commodity, and currency
can shape a company’s story.
Narrative and Numbers reveals the benefits, challenges, and pitfalls of

weaving narratives around numbers and how one can best test a story’s
plausibility.
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Aswath Damodaran
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2017
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NERDS ON WALL STREET

Math, Machines, and Wired Markets
An intriguing look at how technology is changing financial markets, from an
innovator on the frontlines of this revolution.
Nerds on Wall Street tells the tale of the ongoing technological transformation
of the world’s financial markets. The impact of technology on investing is
profound, and author David Leinweber provides readers with an overview
of where we were just a few short years ago, and where we are going.
Being a successful investor today and tomorrow--individual or institutional--
involves more than stock picking, asset allocation, or market timing: it involves
technology. And Leinweber helps readers go beyond the numbers to see
exactly how this technology has become more responsible for managing
modern markets. In essence, the financial game has changed and will
continue to change due entirely to technology. The new players, human or
otherwise, offer investors opportunities and dangers. With this intriguing and
entertaining book, Leinweber shows where technology on Wall Street has
been, what it has meant, and how it will impact the markets of tomorrow.
Authored By
David J. Leinweber
Publication Date
2009
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NON-CONSENSUS INVESTING
Being Right When Everyone Else Is Wrong
Through a range of case studies, Narrative and Numbers describes how
storytellers can better incorporate and narrate numbers and how number-
crunchers can calculate more imaginative models that withstand scrutiny.
Aswath considers Uber’s debut and how narrative is key to understanding

different valuations. He investigates why Twitter and Facebook were valued
in the billions of dollars at their public offerings, and why one (Twitter)
has stagnated while the other (Facebook) has grown. Damodaran also
looks at more established business models such as Apple and Amazon
to demonstrate how a company’s history can both enrich and constrain its
narrative. And through Vale, a global Brazil-based mining company, he shows
the influence of external narrative, and how country, commodity, and currency
can shape a company’s story.
Narrative and Numbers reveals the benefits, challenges, and pitfalls of

weaving narratives around numbers and how one can best test a story’s
plausibility.
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Rupal J. Bhansali
Publication Date
2019
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ONE UP ON WALL STREET

How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the
Market
Peter Lynch believes that average investors have advantages over Wall Street
experts. Since the best opportunities can be found at the local mall or in
their own places of employment, beginners have the chance to learn about
potentially successful companies long before before professional analysts
discover them. This headstart on the experts is what produces ‘tenbaggers’,
the stocks that appreciate tenfold or more and turn an average stock portfolio
into a star performer. In this fully updated edition of his classic bestseller,
Lynch explains how to research stocks and offers easy-to-follow directions for
sorting out the long shots from the no shots. He also provides valuable advice
on how to learn as much as possible from a company’s story, and why every
investor must ignore the ups and downs of the stock market and focus only on
the fundamentals of the company in which they are investing.
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Peter Lynch & John Rothchild
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OPTIMAL TRADING STRATEGIES

Quantitative Approaches for Managing Market Impact and
Trading Risk
The decisions that investment professionals and fund managers make have
a direct impact on investor return. Unfortunately, the best implementation
methodologies are not widely disseminated throughout the professional
community, compromising the best interests of funds, their managers,
and ultimately the individual investor. But now there is a strategy that lets
professionals make better decisions. This valuable reference answers crucial
questions such as:
• How do I compare strategies?

• Should I trade aggressively or passively?
• How do I estimate trading costs, “slice” an order, and measure
performance?
and dozens more. Optimal Trading Strategies is the first book to give
professionals the methodology and framework they need to make educated
implementation decisions based on the objectives and goals of the funds they
manage and the clients they serve.”
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Robert Kissell
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PREDATORY TRADING AND

CROWDED EXITS
New thinking on market volatility
In this book, James Clunie looks at a series of market phenomena that
involve security prices moving temporarily away from their ‘fair value’, creating
opportunities for traders to profit (and the risk of losses for the unaware).
These phenomena have only recently begun to be well understood and key
among them are those known as ‘predatory trading’ and ‘crowded exits’.
By understanding these phenomena thoroughly a trader can gain an edge

over being a victim of the phenomena. The knowledge of these situations also
supports better and proactive market engagement.
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James Clunie
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QUANTAMENTAL INVESTING
Utilizing Market Intelligence & Big Data to Achieve a Market
Edge
Investing has increasingly become a competitive field with resources being
allocated to chasing fewer market opportunities. The Quantitative Easing
policies of Global Central Banks has driven investors to hunt for returns using
innovative approaches. Big Data has enabled investors to analyze extremely
large data sets in revealing patterns, trends, and associations, especially
relating to human behavior and interactions in markets. An astute investment
strategy should have a unique perspective on the current market environment
and wholly understand why certain patterns are occurring or which catalysts
may derail an otherwise resilient strategy.
By utilizing a combination of systematic processing of Big Data and pattern

recognition, one can harness a market edge disparate from experts in each
domain individually. That is the very definition of a “market edge”. That is
why we believe in Quantamental Investing as a superior strategy to navigate
the increasingly hyper-competitive investment landscape and build robust
returns. These simple studies contained in this book are just a small snippet
of the potential power of Big Data, helping to build a savvy investor’s market
intelligence, navigate an increasingly competitive financial landscape and
capitalize on investment opportunities through the Power of Quantamental
Investing.
Authored By
Dr. Qiwei Shi Hans Kullberg
Publication Date
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QUANTITATIVE TRADING
How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business
In the newly revised Second Edition of Mark Spitznagel: How to Build Your
Own Algorithmic Trading Business, Dr. Ernest P. Chan shows you how to
apply both time-tested and novel quantitative trading strategies to develop or
improve your own trading firm.
You’ll discover new case studies and updated information on the application
of cutting-edge machine learning investment techniques. This new edition of
Quantitative Trading will also be of interest to individual investors interested in
exploring a career at a major financial institution.
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Ernst P. Chan
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SAFE HAVEN
Investing for Financial Storms
Contrary to everything we know from modern financial theory, can higher
returns actually come as a result of lowering risk? In Safe Haven, hedge fund
manager Mark Spitznagel answers these questions and more. After reading
this book it’s very possible that the reader will never look at risk mitigation the
same way again.
Mark ultimately argues that an equity tail hedge is the one safe haven that
is as good as--and even better than--gold. Mark also works through other
areas that are typically considered safe, like farmland and real estate, before
showing the reader how to align his/her portfolio to withstand a potential
crash.
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Mark Spitznagel
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SKIN IN THE GAME

Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
One of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to
understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute to a fair and just
society, detect nonsense, and influence others. Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows
how accepting one’s own risks is an essential attribute of heroes, saints, and
flourishing people in all walks of life.
Taleb challenges beliefs about the values of those who lead military
interventions, make financial investments, and propagate religious faiths.
Among his insights:
• For social justice, focus on symmetry and risk sharing.

• Ethical rules aren’t universal.
• Minorities, not majorities, run the world.
• You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot.
• Beware of complicated solutions (that someone was paid to find).
• True religion is commitment, not just faith.
“Skin in the Game” is one we have often heard but rarely stopped to truly
dissect. It is the backbone of risk management, but it’s also an astonishingly
rich worldview that, as Taleb shows in this book. As Taleb says, “The symmetry
of skin in the game is a simple rule that’s necessary for fairness and justice,
and the ultimate BS-buster,” and “Never trust anyone who doesn’t have skin
in the game. Without it, fools and crooks will benefit, and their mistakes will
never come back to haunt them.”
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SMART PORTFOLIOS
A Practical Guide to Building & Maintaining Intelligent
Investment Portfolios
Smart Portfolios is about building and maintaining smart investment portfolios.
At its heart are the three key questions every investor needs to answer:
• What to invest in.

• How much to invest.
• When to make changes to a portfolio.
Author Robert Carver addresses these three areas by providing a single

integrated approach to portfolio management. He shows how to follow a
step-by-step process to build a multi-asset investment portfolio, and how to
rebalance the portfolio efficiently. He covers both investment in collective
funds like ETFs, and direct investment in individual equities.
Smart Portfolios is detailed, comprehensive, and full of practical methods,

rules of thumb and techniques, all fully explained with examples. It is intended
for professional investors worldwide, including financial advisors, private
bankers, wealth managers and institutional funds; as well as experienced
private investors.
Authored By
Robert Carver
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2017
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STRATEGIC RISK MANAGEMENT

Designing Portfolios and Managing Risk
While the COVID-19 pandemic threw the importance of effective risk
management into sharp relief, many investment firms hang on to a traditional
and outdated model of risk management.
Strategic Risk Management: Designing Portfolios and Managing Risk delivers

a fresh approach to risk management in difficult market conditions. These
authors advocate for the amalgamation of portfolio design and risk monitoring
teams, incorporating risk management into every aspect of portfolio design.
The book provides a roadmap for the crucial aspects of portfolio design,
including defensive strategies, drawdown risk controls, volatility targeting, and
actively timing rebalancing trades. This roadmap is overlaid on a narrative of
actual events and outcomes.
Strategic Risk Management: Designing Portfolios and Managing Risk is a

valuable resource for financial policy makers, economics and finance scholars,
and anyone with even a passing interest in taking an active role in investing
for their future.
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Campbell R. Harvey, Sandy Rattray, Otto Van Hemert
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STRATEGIC RISK TAKING

A Framework for Risk Management
Risk has traditionally been viewed negatively: investors and companies
can lose money due to risk and therefore we typically penalize companies
for taking risks. But a company’s relationship with risk should be far more
nuanced.
In this book Aswath embraces the idea of seeking out and exploiting
intelligent risks. Aswath Damodaran–as a renown professor at NYU Stern
School of Business–is well positioned to take this strategic view.
Here, Damodaran helps you separate good risk (opportunities) from bad risk
(threats), showing how to utilize the former while protecting yourself against
the latter. Aswath introduces financial tools for evaluating risk, separating
opportunities from threats, and demonstrates how to draw on other disciplines
to make these tools even more effective.
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Aswath Damodaran
Publication Date
2008
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SYSTEMATIC TRADING
A Unique New Method for Designing, Trading, and Investing
Systems
This is not just another book with yet another trading system. This is a
complete guide to developing your own systems to help you make and
execute trading and investing decisions. It is intended for everyone who
wishes to systematise their financial decision making, either completely or to
some degree.
Author Robert Carver draws on financial theory, his experience managing

systematic hedge fund strategies and his own in-depth research to explain
why systematic trading makes sense and demonstrates how it can be done
safely and profitably. Every aspect, from creating trading rules to position
sizing, is thoroughly explained. The framework described here can be used
with all assets, including equities, bonds, forex and
commodities.
There is no magic formula that will guarantee success, but cutting out simple
mistakes will improve your performance. You’ll learn how to avoid common
pitfalls such as over-complicating your strategy, being too optimistic about
likely returns, taking excessive risks and trading too frequently.
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Robert Carver
Publication Date
2015
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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF STOCK

TRENDS
Technical Analysis of Stock Trends was the first book to produce a
methodology for interpreting the predictable behavior of investors and
markets. It revolutionized technical investment approaches and showed
traders and investors how to make money regardless of what the market is
doing. Now in its ninth edition, the book remains the benchmark by which all
other investment methodologies are measured. An indispensable reference
for technical traders, investors, and finance professionals.
Authored By
Robert D. Edwards, John Magee
Publication Date
1948
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THE (MIS)BEHAVIOR OF MARKETS

A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward
Benoit B. Mandelbrot, one of the century’s most influential mathematicians, is
world-famous for making mathematical sense of a fact everybody knows but
that geometers from Euclid on down had never assimilated: Clouds are not
round, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not smooth. To these classic
lines we can now add another example: Markets are not the safe bet your
broker may claim. In his first book for a general audience, Mandelbrot, with
co-author Richard L. Hudson, shows how the dominant way of thinking about
the behavior of markets-a set of mathematical assumptions a century old and
still learned by every MBA and financier in the world-simply does not work.
As he did for the physical world in his classic The Fractal Geometry of Nature,
Mandelbrot here uses fractal geometry to propose a new, more accurate way
of describing market behavior. The complex gyrations of IBM’s stock price
and the dollar-euro exchange rate can now be reduced to straightforward
formulae that yield a far better model of how risky they are. With his fractal
tools, Mandelbrot has gotten to the bottom of how financial markets really
work, and in doing so, he describes the volatile, dangerous (and strangely
beautiful) properties that financial experts have never before accounted for.
The result is no less than the foundation for a new science of finance.
Authored By
Benoit Mandelbrot & Richard L. Hudson
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2004
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THE ALLOCATOR’S EDGE

A modern guide to alternative investments and the future of
diversification
Alternative asset classes including private equity, hedge funds, catastrophe
reinsurance, real assets, non-traditional credit, alternative risk premia, digital
assets, collectibles, and other novel assets are now available to investors and
their advisors in a way that they never have been before.
The pursuit of diversification is not as straightforward as it once was ― and

the classic 60/40 portfolio may no longer be sufficient in helping investors
achieve their most important financial goals. With the ever-present need for
sustainable income and risk management, alternative assets are poised to
play a more prominent role in investor portfolios.
The author, in this book, provides detailed coverage across the spectrum
of alternative assets: their risk and return characteristics, methods to gain
exposure, and how to fit everything into a balanced portfolio.
Alternative investments are the allocator’s edge for the portfolios of tomorrow.
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Phil Huber
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THE ALPHA FORMULA

High Powered Strategies to Beat the Market with Less Risk
How would you like to make money when markets rise, decline, and go
through times of stress, and do so in a systematic way?
Larry Connors and Chris Cain CMT, winners of the prestigious 2020 Charles
H. Dow Award, teach you a better way to systematically manage your
portfolio, not only in bull markets but for all market conditions.
Most portfolios only make money when markets rise. This has been the history
of the asset management industry for decades. In The Alpha Formula, you will
learn how to systematically make money for the times when markets go up,
go down, and go through times of stress.
This step by step guide is backed by investment concepts created by

billionaire Ray Dalio, author of Principles, AQR, the second-largest hedge
fund manager in the world, and many other giants in the industry. This book
teaches you specific systematic data-driven strategies, backed by years of
historical test results, to grow your money in a consistent manner.
Authored By
Chris Cain, Larry Connors
Publication Date
2019
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THE ART OF EXECUTION

How the world’s best investors get it wrong and still make
millions
Over seven years, 45 of the world’s top investors were given between $25m
and $150m to invest by fund manager Lee Freeman-Shor. His instructions
were simple. There was only one rule. They could only invest in their ten best
ideas to make money.
Most of the investors’ great ideas actually lost money. Shockingly, a toss of a
coin would have been a better method of choosing whether or not to invest
in a stock. Nevertheless, despite being wrong most of the time, many of these
investors still ended up making a lot of money.
How could they be wrong most of the time and still be profitable?
The answer lay in their hidden habits of execution, which until now have only
been guessed at from the outside world.
This book explore these hidden habits, explaining them with real-life data,
case studies and stories taken from Freeman-Shor’s unique position of
managing these investors on a day-to-day basis.
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Lee Freeman-Shor
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2020
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THE BLACK SWAN

The Impact of the Highly Improbable
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics:
It’s unpredictable; carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an
explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it
was.
The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim
Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from
the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.
We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to
take into consideration what we don’t know. We are, therefore, unable to truly
estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and
categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the
“impossible.”
For years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know
more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and
inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our
world. The Black Swan will change the way you look at the world. Taleb is
a vastly entertaining writer, with wit, irreverence, and unusual stories to tell.
He has a polymathic command of subjects ranging from cognitive science to
business to probability theory.
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THE ECONOMICS OF THE STOCK

MARKET
In The Economics of the Stock Market, Andrew Smithers proposes a
model that is robust when tested, and (by including the impact of the stock
market on the economy) overcomes potential defects. The faults of the
current consensus model are shown to result typically from an unscientific
methodology in which assumptions are held to be valid despite their
incompatibility with data evidence.
Smithers demonstrates examples of these faults: the Miller/Modigliani

Theorem (the assumption that leverage does not affect the value of produced
capital assets); the assumption that short-term and long-term interest rates,
and the cost of equity capital, are co-determined; and the assumption that the
decisions of corporate managements aim to maximise the present value of
corporate assets (‘profit maximisation’) rather than the value determined by
the stock market.
This book proposes a model that includes and explains the stationarity of real
returns on equity, based on the interaction of the differing utility preferences
of the managers of companies and the owners of financial capital.
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THE EDUCATION OF A
SPECULATOR
The Education of a Speculator is a provocative and penetrating look into the
mind, the soul, and the strategies of one of the most controversial traders of all
time.
“A compelling and an entertaining read.” — The Wall Street Journal
“The Education of a Speculator offers plenty of insights into the way markets
work, but the epiphanies are what a reader might expect from Lao-tzu rather
than, say, Graham and Dodd.” — Worth Magazine
“The Education of a Speculator is the first meaningful book on speculating.

Successful speculating is as fine an art as chess, checkers, fishing, poker,
tennis, painting, and music. Niederhoffer brings forth the best from each of
these fields and shows the investor how their principles can enrich one’s life
and net worth.” — Martin Edelston
“With an original mind and an eclectic approach, Victor takes the reader from
Brighton Beach to Wall Street, visiting all stops of interest along the way. What
emerges is a book full of insights, useful to the professional and layman alike.”
— George Soros
Authored By
Victor Niederhoffer
Publication Date
1997
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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
TECHNICAL MARKET INDICATORS
Today’s most all-inclusive reference of technical indicators - what they are and
how to use them to add value to any trading program.
Technical analysis has become an incredibly popular investors’ tool for

gauging market strength and forecasting short-term direction for both markets
and individual stocks. But as markets have changed dramatically, so too have
technical indicators and elements. The Encyclopedia of Technical Market
Indicators provides an alphabetical and up-to-date listing of hundreds of
today’s most important indicators. It defines what each ndicator is, explains the
philosophy behind the indicator, and-- of the greatest importance-- provides
easy-to-understand guidelines for using it in day-to-day trading.
Broad in both scope and appeal, this one-of-a-kind reference painstakingly

updates information from the previous edition plus defines and discusses
nearly 100 new indicators.
Authored By
Robert W. Colby
Publication Date
1988
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THE EVALUATION AND OPTIMIZA-

TION OF TRADING STRATEGIES
A newly expanded and updated edition of the trading classic, Design, Testing,
and Optimization of Trading Systems.
Trading systems expert Robert Pardo is back, and in The Evaluation and
Optimization of Trading Strategies, a thoroughly revised and updated edition
of his classic text Design, Testing, and Optimization of Trading Systems,
he reveals how he has perfected the programming and testing of trading
systems using a successful battery of his own time-proven techniques. With
this book, Pardo delivers important information to readers, from the design
of workable trading strategies to measuring issues like profit and risk. Written
in a straightforward and accessible style, this detailed guide presents traders
with a way to develop and verify their trading strategy no matter what form
they are currently using–stochastics, moving averages, chart patterns, RSI, or
breakout methods.
Whether a trader is seeking to enhance their profit or just getting started in

testing, The Evaluation and Optimization of Trading Strategies offers practical
instruction and expert advice on the development, evaluation, and application
of winning mechanical trading systems.
Authored By
Robert Pardo
Publication Date
2008
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THE FLAW OF AVERAGES

Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty
In The Flaw of Averages, Sam Savage-known for his creative exposition of
difficult subjects- describes common avoidable mistakes in assessing risk in
the face of uncertainty. Along the way, he shows why plans based on average
assumptions are wrong, on average, in areas as diverse as healthcare,
accounting, the War on Terror, and climate change. In his chapter on Sex and
the Central Limit Theorem, he bravely grasps the literary third rail of gender
differences.
Instead of statistical jargon, Savage presents complex concepts in plain

English. In addition, a tightly integrated web site contains numerous
animations and simulations to further connect the seat of the reader’s intellect
to the seat of their pants.
The Flaw of Averages typically results when someone plugs a single number
into a spreadsheet to represent an uncertain future quantity. Savage finishes
the book with a discussion of the emerging field of Probability Management,
which cures this problem though a new technology that can pack thousands
of numbers into a single spreadsheet cell.
Authored By
Sam L. Savage, Jeff Danziger
Publication Date
2009
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THE FRACTAL GEOMETRY OF

NATURE
Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, and lightning does not
travel in a straight line. The complexity of nature’s shapes differs in kind, not
merely degree, from that of the shapes of ordinary geometry, the geometry of
fractal shapes.
Now that the field has expanded greatly with many active researchers,
Mandelbrot presents the definitive overview of the origins of his ideas and
their new applications. The Fractal Geometry of Nature is based on his highly
acclaimed earlier work, but has much broader and deeper coverage and more
extensive illustrations.
Authored By
Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Publication Date
1982
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THE HANDBOOK OF ALTERNATIVE

ASSETS
This book discusses and describes four types of alternative assets: hedge
funds, private equity, credit derivatives, and commodity futures. Hedge funds
and private equity are the best known of the alternative assets, but certainly
not the only alternative assets available. The author explores each one of
these alternative asset classes in detail, providing practical advice along with
useful research.
Offers a comprehensive examination of the four major classes as presented

in the ‘Handbook of Alternative Assets’. Merges data and strategies scattered
in numerous volumes into one handy guide for the serious investor. Discusses
hedge funds, private equity, credit derivatives, and commodity and managed
futures.
Authored By
Mark J. P. Anson
Publication Date
2002
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THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND

WOLF
Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust
A successful Wall Street trader turned Cambridge neuroscientist reveals
the biology of financial boom and bust, showing how risk-taking transforms
our body chemistry, driving us to extremes of euphoria or stressed-out
depression.
The laws of financial boom and bust, it turns out, have a lot to do with male
hormones. In a series of startling experiments, Canadian scientist Dr. John
Coates identified a feedback loop between testosterone and success that
dramatically lowers the fear of risk in men, especially young men; he has
vividly dubbed the moment when traders transform into exuberant high flyers
“”the hour between dog and wolf.”” Similarly, intense failure leads to a rise
in levels of cortisol, which dramatically lowers the appetite for risk. Coates’s
conclusions shed light on all types of high-pressure decision-making, from
the sports field to the battlefield, and leaves us with a powerful recognition:
to handle risk isn’t a matter of mind over body, it’s a matter of mind and
body working together. We all have it in us to be transformed from dog to
wolf; the only question is whether we can understand the causes and the
consequences.
Authored By
John Coates
Publication Date
2012
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THE BUSINESS ONE IRWIN GUIDE

TO TRADING SYSTEMS
Comprehensive and authoritative description of the theory, creation, and use
of mechanical trading systems. Presents historical tests of various trading
systems approaches in 10 markets over a 5 year period.
Authored By
Bruce Babcock
Publication Date
1989
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THE MASTER ALGORITHM

How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake
Our World
A thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and
the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own.
In the world’s top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent
the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge
from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask. In The Master
Algorithm, Pedro Domingos lifts the veil to give us a peek inside the learning
machines that power Google, Amazon, and your smartphone. He assembles a
blueprint for the future universal learner--the Master Algorithm--and discusses
what it will mean for business, science, and society. If data-ism is today’s
philosophy, this book is its bible.
Authored By
Pedro Domingos
Publication Date
2015
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THE MONEY GAME

“The best book there is about the stock market” --timeless investing basics by
the host of the Emmy Award–winning show Adam Smith’s Money World (The
New York Times Book Review).
In this book readers will learn about the intricacies of money and how the
stock market impacts every area of our lives. Data is king as the author shares
insights into how intuition and guilt can play havoc in the world of data and
how greed and fear can fuel the market.
The author shares market savvy insights into the ins and outs of risk, trends,
growth, and winners and losers. He paints a vivid picture of big money and
why timing is everything.
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Adam Smith
Publication Date
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THE MOST IMPORTANT THING

Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
Howard Marks, is renowned for his insightful assessments of market
opportunity and risk. After four decades spent ascending to the top of the
investment management profession, he is today sought out by the world’s
leading value investors, and his client memos brim with insightful commentary
and a time-tested, fundamental philosophy. Now for the first time, all readers
can benefit from Marks’s wisdom, concentrated into a single volume that
speaks to both the amateur and seasoned investor.
The Most Important Thing explains the keys to successful investment and the
pitfalls that can destroy capital or ruin a career. Mark details the development
of an investment philosophy that fully acknowledges the complexities of
investing and the perils of the financial world. Brilliantly applying insight to
today’s volatile markets, Marks offers a volume that is part memoir, part creed,
with a number of broad takeaways.
Marks expounds on such concepts as “second-level thinking,” the price/

value relationship, patient opportunism, and defensive investing. Frankly and
honestly assessing his own decisions--and occasional missteps--he provides
valuable lessons for critical thinking, risk assessment, and investment strategy.
Which element is the most essential? Successful investing requires attention
to many separate aspects, each of Marks’s subjects proves to be the most
important thing.
Authored By
Howard Marks
Publication Date
2011
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THE NEW RULES FOR INVESTING

NOW
Smart Portfolios for the Next Fifteen Years
A unique and timely new wealth-building strategy from a legendary
investment guru! When the dot-com bubble burst, many investors assumed
that it was just another temporary setback for the mighty S&P 500, which had
just enjoyed its best twenty-year real rate of return in over a century.
But James P. O’Shaughnessy, the bestselling author of What Works on Wall

Street and How to Retire Rich, doesn’t trust assumptions; he does rigorous
analysis. After digging into the long-term cyclical patterns of the last hundred
years, he concluded that almost every “lesson” investors learned in the past
twenty years no longer applies.
If you think you can protect your money by focusing on “safe” large-cap
stocks and mutual funds, you’re in for a big disappointment. In the new cycle
now under way, the stocks of small and midsize companies will consistently
outperform the large-cap growth stocks of the S&P 500. Large company value
stocks and intermediate term bonds will also do better than expected. ‘The
New Rules for Investing Now’ explains how the investment landscape has
changed, and what you should do about it.
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THE NEXT PERFECT TRADE

A Magic Sword of Necessity
What happens when a trader’s focus changes from forces that drive markets
to forces that drive successful trades?
Preparing for being a successful trader moves the focus to an offensive

approach to investing (versus defensive). This perspective requires thinking
of investing as a rigorous intellectual battle. It means that you need to prepare
for it thoroughly.
Every chapter in this book represents a step towards mastering the ‘sword of
necessity’. Whether you’re an experienced investor or just starting out, there
are concepts, presented in this book, that help you effectively equip yourself
for the next perfect trade.
Alex Gurevich is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of HonTe

Investments, a Bay Area based investment management firm. After earning
a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, Gurevich directed his
passion for strategy into a successful Wall Street career.
Authored By
Alex Gurevich
Publication Date
2015
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THE PRICE OF TOMORROW

Why Deflation is the Key to an Abundant Future
Technological advances are happening at a rate faster than our ability to
understand them, and in a world that moves faster than we can imagine, we
cannot afford to stand still.
Our economic systems were built for a pre-technology era when labour and
capital were linked, an era that counted on growth and inflation, an era where
we made money from inefficiency.
The only thing driving growth in the world today is easy credit, which is being
created at a pace that is hard to comprehend--and with it, debt that we will
never be able to pay back.
At this rate, our world will become profoundly more polarized and unsafe. We
need to build a new framework for our local and global economies, and soon;
we need to accept and embrace deflation. Otherwise, the same technology
that has the power to bring abundance to us and our world will instead
destroy it.
Jeff Booth details the technological and economic realities shaping our
present and our future, and the choices we face as we go forward--a
potentially alarming, but deeply hopeful situation.
Authored By
Jeff Booth
Publication Date
2020
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THE SECOND LEG DOWN

Strategies for Profiting after a Market Sell-Off
The Second Leg Down offers practical approaches to profiting after a
market event. Written by a specialist in global macro, volatility and hedging
overlay strategies, this book provides in-depth insight into surviving in a
volatile environment. Historical back tests and scenario diagrams illustrate
a variety of strategies for offsetting portfolio risks with after-the-fact options
hedging, and the discussion explores how a mixture of trend following and
contrarian futures strategies can be beneficial. Without a rational analysis-
based approach, investors often find themselves having to cut risk and buy
protection just as options are at their most over-priced. This book provides
practical strategies, expert analysis and the knowledge base to assist you in
recovering your portfolio.
Hedging strategies are often presented as expensive and unnecessary,

especially during a bull market. When equity indices and other unstable assets
drop, they find themselves stuck – hedging is now at its most expensive,
but it is imperative to hedge or face liquidation. This book shows you how to
salvage the situation, with strategies backed by expert analysis.
Authored By
Hari P. Krishnan
Publication Date
2017
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THE SYSTEMS BIBLE

The Beginner’s Guide to Systems Large and Small
The Indispensable Handbook of Systems-behavior, written specifically for
all of us who must daily cope with the Pitfalls, Foibles, and Failures of the
Systems that make up our Modern World..
Sixteen years in preparation, this THIRD Edition includes a new Preface,

three new chapters, new AXIOMS, THEOREMS AND RULES OF THUMB, and
many new Horrible Examples, for a total of 40 chapters covering the entire
field from the PRIMAL SCENARIO to the FAIL-SAFE THEOREM and including
the celebrated definition of GARBAGE that is fundamental to any real
understanding of SYSTEMANTICS.
Authored By
John Gall
Publication Date
2002
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THE TRADES OF MARCH 2020

A Shield Against Uncertainty
Alex Gurevich, Founder and CIO of HonTe Investments, has firsthand
experience in dealing with the consequences of a 35 percent loss in U.S.
stock markets over a three-week period.
The worldwide pandemic disrupted financial markets and devoured them like
a black hole. Alex shares the story of his team’s frantic efforts to survive the
crisis.
This book is rich with actual communications around the struggle the team
faced in those first terrifying days of loss and their herculean efforts and
moment-to-moment decisions that guided them out of the black hole that was
March 2020.
After earning a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, Gurevich

directed his passion for strategy into a successful Wall Street career.
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Authored By
Alex Gurevich
Publication Date
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THE VIX TRADER’S HANDBOOK

The History, Patterns, and Strategies Every Volatility Trader
Needs to Know
Russell Rhoads is one of America’s leading experts on VIX, the Volatility Index.
In The VIX Trader’s Handbook he takes a deep dive into all things associated
with volatility indexes and related trading vehicles. The handbook begins with
an explanation of what VIX is, how it is calculated, and why it behaves the way
it does in various market environments. It also explains the various methods of
getting exposure to volatility through listed markets.
The focus then moves on to demonstrate how traders take advantage of

various scenarios using futures, options, or ETPs linked to the performance
of VIX. Finally, a comprehensive review is presented of volatility events that
shook the markets, including the 1987 crash, Great Financial Crisis, 2010 flash
crash, and the 2020 pandemic.
By understanding how VIX behaved leading up to these market shocks, and

reacted afterwards, traders can better equip themselves ahead of future
events. A wide variety of strategies that are implemented in both bearish and
bullish equity markets are introduced and covered extensively throughout.
Authored By
Russell Rhoads
Publication Date
2020
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TIMING SOLUTIONS FOR SWING

TRADERS
Successful Trading Using Technical Analysis and Financial
Astrology
This is a remarkable new book that introduces a revolutionary approach to
non-day trading that combines the four basic dimensions of trend analysis—
price patterns, volume, price momentum, and price moving averages—with a
little financial astrology. The book is filled with examples of reliable indicators
and formulas you can use to help develop your own style of trading, specially
tailored to your individual needs.
Filled with real-life market examples to help you understand how to use the
matrix of moving averages, how to apply different sets of time frame moving
averages to form a trading decision, and how to determine the intermediate
state of the market using the Queuing Theory (QMAC)—which dissects the
interplay of long-term moving averages and helps anticipate major support
and resistance levels—this book is packed with the information you need to
maximize your trading potential.
Innovative and practical, Timing Solutions for Swing Traders is a hands-on

guide to applying a remarkable new approach to trading.
Authored By
Robert M. Lee & Peter Tryde
Publication Date
2012
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TRADE YOUR WAY TO FINANCIAL

FREEDOM
The bestselling holy grail of trading information-now brought completely up to
date to give traders an edge in the marketplace.
“Sound trading advice and lots of ideas you can use to develop your own
trading methodology.” — Jack Schwager, author of Market Wizards and The
New Market Wizards
This trading masterpiece has been fully updated to address all the concerns of
today’s market environment. With substantial new material, this second edition
features Tharp’s new 17-step trading model. Trade Your Way to Financial
Freedom also addresses reward to risk multiples, as well as insightful new
interviews with top traders, and features updated examples and charts.
Authored By
Van K. Tharp
Publication Date
1998
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TRADERS, GUNS & MONEY

Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives
Warren Buffett once memorably described derivatives as “financial weapons
of mass destruction”. Read this sensational and controversial account of the
often dazzling business of derivatives trading, and see if you agree.
No money is ever really made in financial markets. Markets merely transfer

wealth. As to how to make money? Well, it is basically theft, misrepresentation,
lies, cheating, deception or force. It is impossible to make the staggering
amounts made in derivatives in good years honestly.
Traders, Guns & Money is a wry and wickedly comic exposé of the culture,
games, and pure deceptions played out every day in trading rooms around
the world, usually with other people’s money. Whether you move in the
financial world yourself, know people who do, or have money invested in
stocks, shares or derivatives, this is a fascinating read guaranteed to make
you think.
Authored By
Satyajit Das
Publication Date
2006
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TRADES ABOUT TO HAPPEN

A Modern Adaptation of the Wyckoff Method
The definitive book on adapting the classic work of Richard Wyckoff to today’s
markets. Price and volume analysis is one of the most effective approaches
to market analysis. It was pioneered by Richard Wyckoff, who worked on Wall
Street during the golden age of technical analysis. In Trades About to Happen,
veteran trader David Weis explains how to utilize the principles behind
Wyckoff’s work and make effective trades with this method.
Page by page, Weis clearly demonstrates how to construct intraday wave

charts similar to Wyckoff’s originals, draw support/resistance lines, interpret
the struggle for dominance in trading ranges, and recognize action signals at
turning points.
• Analyzes markets one bar chart at a time, which recreates the ambiguity of
actual trading.
• Emphasizes reading price/volume charts without a secondary reliance on
mathematical indicators.
Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, Trades About to Happen
promises to be the definitive work on utilizing Wyckoff’s classic methods in
today’s turbulent markets.
Authored By
David H. Weis
Publication Date
2013
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TRADING FOR A LIVING

Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management
Trading for a Living Successful trading is based on three M’s: Mind, Method,
and Money. Trading for a Living helps you master all of those three areas:
• How to become a cool, calm, and collected trader

• How to profit from reading the behavior of the market crowd
• How to use a computer to find good trades
• How to develop a powerful trading system
• How to find the trades with the best odds of success
• How to find entry and exit points, set stops, and take profits
Trading for a Living helps you discipline your Mind, shows you the Methods
for trading the markets, and shows you how to manage Money in your trading
accounts so that no string of losses can kick you out of the game. To help you
profit even more from the ideas in Trading for a Living, look for the companion
volume—Study Guide for Trading for a Living. It asks over 200 multiple-choice
questions, with answers and 11 rating scales for sharpening your trading skills.
Authored By
Alexander Elder
Publication Date
1993
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TRADING SYSTEMS
A New Approach to System Development and Portfolio
Optimization
Trading Systems’ is an insight into what a trader should know and do in order
to achieve success on the markets. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to
build a winning trading system.
Divided into three parts, this book highlights exactly how you can build that
system. Part One is a short practical guide to trading systems’ development
and evaluation, forming the theoretical basis for Part Two. It condenses the
authors’ years of experience in a number of practical tips.
A step-by-step development process covering everything from the initial

code writing up to walk forward analysis and money management makes up
Part Two; a combination of Emilio Tomasini’s experience and Urban Jaekle’s
practical application of trading systems and evaluation. Part Three shows you
how to put systems for all different markets together in the most effective way.
A trader can never say he achieved success but only that he survived: the
black swan is always around the corner. ‘Trading Systems’ will help you find
your way among the unchartered waters of systematic trading and show you
what it takes to be the one that survives.
Authored By
Emilio Tomasini & Urban Jaekle
Publication Date
2009
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TRADING SYSTEMS AND METHODS

Perry Kaufman provides expert information on proven indicators, programs,
systems, and algorithms. Now in its sixth edition, this book provides readers
with the knowledge required to develop or select the trading programs
best suited for their needs. In-depth discussions of basic mathematical and
statistical concepts instruct readers on how much data to use, how to create
an index, how to determine probabilities, and how best to test your ideas.
This fully-revised edition offers new examples using stocks, ETFs and futures,
and provides expanded coverage of arbitrage, high frequency trading, and
sophisticated risk management models. More programs and strategies have
been added, such as Artificial Intelligence techniques and Game Theory
approaches to trading. This invaluable resource offers comprehensive
revisions and additional mathematical and statistical tools, trading systems,
and examples of current market situations, explains basic mathematical
and statistical concepts with accompanying code, and includes new Excel
spreadsheets with genetic algorithms, TradeStation code, MetaStock code,
and more.
This book is an indispensable reference on trading systems, system design

and methods for professional active traders, money managers, trading
systems developers.
Authored By
Perry J. Kaufman
Publication Date
2019
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TRADING SYSTEMS AND MONEY

MANAGEMENT
A Guide to Trading and Profiting in Any Market
While most trading books simply tack money management onto the end
of the book as an afterthought, Trading Systems and Money Management
recognizes the importance of proven money management principles to the
success of a trading program.
This step-by-step guide shows how to use stops to improve profit taking and
reduce losses, add filters such as moving averages and breakouts to improve
entry and exit points, and practice basic money management techniques to
improve the performance of any trading system.
Authored By
Thomas Stridsman
Publication Date
2003
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TRADING VOLATILITY
Trading Volatility, Correlation, Term Structure and Skew
The author writes, “One of the main reasons I decided to write this book, was
due to the lack of other publications that deal with the practical issues of using
derivatives. This publication aims to fill the void between books providing an
introduction to derivatives, and advanced books whose target audience are
members of quantitative modeling community.
In order to appeal to the widest audience, this publication tries to assume

the least amount of prior knowledge. The content quickly moves onto more
advanced subjects in order to concentrate on more practical and advanced
topics.”
Colin lays out the various approaches to derivatives and the role that
derivatives play in markets. In addition to exploring strategies, he looks to
answer some of the most common questions involving derivatives.
Whether you are just starting out in learning more about derivatives or you are
a member of the quantitative modeling community, there is something here
for everyone on the subject of derivatives.
NEW
Authored By
Colin Bennett
Publication Date
2014
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TREASURY BOND BASIS

An In-depth Analysis for Hedgers, Speculators and Arbitrageurs
Now in its third edition, “The Treasury Bond Basis” is the mandatory reference
text for Treasury bond and note futures trading rooms around the world. This
updated edition reflects the numerous market changes, chief among them the
Chicago Board of Trade’s decision to switch from an 8 percent to a 6 percent
conversion factor. Revisions include greater detail on hedging and trading,
updated explanations of options valuation and short delivery options, and
discussion of global bonds futures trading and applications.
Authored By
Galen Burghardt & Terry Belton
Publication Date
1989
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VAN THARP’S DEFINITIVE GUIDE

TO POSITION SIZING
Discover the right combination of probability, risk, and return to dramatically
improve your trading results and financial life. Evaluate the quality of your
trading system under every market condition. 90% of the performance
variation of professional traders is due to position sizing. This book shows
you how to gain control of your position sizing. Learn how to define your
objectives clearly and how to position size to meet them. Nearly 100 different
position sizing models are presented in this book, each of which has many
variations. The potential variations within each model illustrate the complexity
of the subject of position sizing.
Authored By
Van Tharp
Publication Date
2008
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VOLATILITY TRADING
In this second edition, Sinclair offers a quantitative model for measuring
volatility in order to gain an edge in everyday option trading endeavors. With
an accessible, straightforward approach, he guides traders through the basics
of option pricing, volatility measurement, hedging, money management, and
trade evaluation. This new edition includes new chapters on the dynamics
of realized and implied volatilities, trading the variance premium and using
options to trade special situations in equity markets.
The author uses volatility models, including brand new option trades for quant
traders, to illustrate the design and implementation of quantitative trading
strategies.
NEW
Authored By
Euan Sinclair
Publication Date
2013 (2nd Edition)
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WHAT I LEARNED LOSING A

MILLION DOLLARS
Jim’s rise took him from a small town in Kentucky to governor of the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all—his fortune, his reputation, and his job—
in one fatal attack of excessive economic hubris. Paul and Brendan revisit the
events that led to Paul’s disastrous decision and examine the psychological
factors behind bad financial practices in several economic sectors.
This book begins with the unbroken string of successes that helped Paul
achieve a jet-setting lifestyle and land a key spot with the Chicago Mercantile
Exchange. It then describes the circumstances leading up to Paul’s $1.6 million
loss and the essential lessons he learned from it—primarily that, although
there are as many ways to make money in the markets as there are people
participating in them, all losses come from the same few sources.
Investors lose money in the markets either because of errors in their analysis
or psychological barriers preventing the application of analysis. While all
analytical methods have some validity and make allowances for mistakes,
psychological factors can keep an investor in a losing position, causing him to
abandon one method for another in order to rationalize the decisions already
made. Paul and Moynihan’s cautionary tale includes strategies for avoiding
loss tied to a simple framework for understanding, accepting, and dodging the
dangers of investing, trading, and speculating.
NEW
Authored By
Jim Paul & Brendan Moynihan
Publication Date
1994
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WHAT WORKS ON WALL STREET

A Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies
of All Time
Recent history has witnessed one of the worst stock market beatings ever. As
a result, abysmal returns are being called “the new normal,” financial “experts”
are ringing the death knell of buy-and-hold, and investors’ faith in equities has
hit an all-time low. You have two choices. You can abandon the stock market
based on what is happening today. Or you can invest today based on what
will happen in the future.
What Works on Wall Street is the only investing guide that lets you see today’s
market in its proper context - as part of the historical ebb and flow of the stock
market. And when you see the data, you’ll see there is no argument: Stocks
work.
What Works on Wall Street continues to provide the most effective investing
strategies, presenting incontrovertible data on what works and what doesn’t.
This guide provides the objective facts and winning strategies you need; all
you have to do is make the decision to ignore the so-called market experts
and rely on the long-proven approach that has made What Works on Wall
Street an investing classic.
Authored By
Publication Date
1996
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WHEN PRIME BROKERS FAIL

The Unheeded Risk to Hedge Funds, Banks, and the
Financial Industry
An informative primer on the new landscape of leading prime brokers Before
the recent financial crisis, both regulators and market participants disregarded
the complex and dangerous nature of the relationship between prime
brokers (the banks) and their clients (the funds). In When Prime Brokers Fail,
J. S. Aikman examines the convoluted structure of this relationship, the main
participants, and the impact of the near collapse of prime brokerages on the
financial world.
Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, When Prime Brokers Fail takes
a close look at the unheeded risks of prime finance and lays out the steps
required for managers to protect their funds and bankers to protect their
brokerages.
Aikman examines the challenges, trends, and risks within the prime brokerage
space. He discusses the structural adjustments firms will need to make
to avoid similar disasters and analyzes the complex relationship between
hedge funds and their brokerages and the risks that multiply in extraordinary
markets. This timely book details the intricacies and interdependencies of
prime brokerages and the role that these operations play in our increasingly
dynamic financial system.
Authored By
J. S. Aikman
Publication Date
2010
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WINNING THE LOSER’S GAME

Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing
Technology, information overload, and increasing market dominance by
expert investors and computers make it harder than ever to produce investing
results that overcome operating costs and fees.
Winning The Loser’s Game is a candid, short, and super easy to read
book that walks you through the process of developing and implementing
a powerful investing strategy. In this new edition, the author applies the
expertise developed over his long, fruitful career.
This book outlines the core principles of successful investing and lays them
out in a way that the reader can really embrace.
NEW
Authored By
Charles D. Ellis
Publication Date
2021
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YOU CAN BE A STOCK MARKET

GENIUS EVEN IF YOU’RE NOT TOO
SMART
Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits
Joel Greenblatt shares his wealth of experience, in this book, as he explores
uncharted areas where the individual investor has a huge advantage over the
Wall Street pros. The author speaks to specific case studies as he explores the
hidden potential of the markets.
Joel Greenblatt is the former chairman of a Fortune 500 company and

founder of Gotham Capital, an investment partnership whose stock portfolio
achieved returns of $52 for each $1 invested at its inception.
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WAY OF THE TRADER

A complete guide to the art of financial trading
An indispensable tool for new traders who need to introduce order and
structure to their daily routine and for those who are unable to remain
profitable over the long run.
Ian Murphy examines the job of a trader and their relationship with the
market—how to survive where so many others have failed. He reveals the
habits of serious professionals including essential procedures such as the
‘Eight Checks’ and the ‘Nine Filters’ which should be employed by all traders
before a single penny is placed in the market. Most importantly, he explains
how the ‘Five Limits of Risk’ allow us to embrace the dangers at the heart of
trading, so we can face the market with confidence and clarity.
Using psychology—we see how the concept of a trading edge is overrated

and misunderstood. Buddhist techniques for working with the mind which can
be profitably employed in the market have also been discussed here.
The author shares three consistently profitable trading strategies which

expose opportunities inherent in the market and demonstrates how to
leverage those opportunities. Way of the Trader provides a wealth of practical
tools for those who wish to make a living from the markets.
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MAKING
BETTER
INVESTMENT
DECISIONS
Clash of the Financial Pundits�� 152

Joshua M. Brown, Jeff Macke
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway�� 153
Susan Jeffers
Figuring It Out �� 154
Charles D. Ellis
Fortune’s Formula�� 155
William Poundstone
Market Mind Games�� 156
Denise Shull
Misbehaving��157
Richard H. Thaler
Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) �� 158
Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson
Moneyball�� 159
Michael Lewis
Moods and Markets �� 160
Peter Atwater
149
More Than You Know�� 161
Michael J. Mauboussin
Noise�� 162
Daniel Kahneman, Cass Sunstein, Olivier Sibony
Nudge �� 163
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
Outliers�� 164
Malcolm Gladwell
Personal Benchmark�� 165
Charles Widger, Daniel Crosby
Principles �� 166
Ray Dalio
Quit��167
Annie Duke
Range �� 168
David Epstein
Risk Savvy �� 169
Gerd Gigerenzer
Signals�� 170
Dr. Philippa Malmgren
Socionomic Causality in Politics�� 171
Robert R. Prechter
Superforecasting ��172
Philip E. Tetlock
The Art of Thinking Clearly��173
Rolf Dobelli
The Behavioral Investor��174
Daniel Crosby
The Biggest Bluff ��175
Maria Konnikova
The Delusions of Crowds ��176
William J. Bermstein
The Devil’s Financial Dictionary �� 177
Jason Zweig
The Disciplined Trader Developing Winning Attitudes ��178
Mark Douglas
The Geometry of Wealth ��179
Brian Portnoy
The Illusion of Control �� 180
Jon Danielsson
The Investor’s Paradox �� 181
Brian Portnoy
150
The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion �� 182
Leonard C. MacLean, William T. Ziemba, Edward O. Thorp
The Latte Factor�� 183
David Bach, John David Mann
The Laws Of Trading�� 184
Agustin Lebron
The Laws of Wealth �� 185
Daniel Crosby
The Little Book of Behavioral Investing �� 186
James Montier
The Logic Of Failure ��187
Dietrich Dörner
The Long Game �� 188
Dorie Clark
The Mathematics of Gambling�� 189
Edward O. Thorp
The Organized Mind �� 190
Daniel J. Levitin
The Psychology of Money �� 191
Morgan Housel
The Research Driven Investor �� 192
Timothy Hayes
The Success Equation �� 193
The Undoing Project�� 194
Michael Lewis
Think Again�� 195
Adam Grant
Think for Yourself�� 196
Vikram Mansharamani
Thinking in Bets ��197
Annie Duke
Thinking, Fast and Slow�� 198
Daniel Kahneman
Trading in the Zone �� 199
Mark Douglas
Trading to Win�� 200
Ari Kiev
Your Money & Your Brain �� 201
Jason Zweig
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CLASH OF THE FINANCIAL

PUNDITS
How the Media Influences Your Investment Decisions for Better
or Worse
There is no shortage of financial advice these days. From cocky cable pundits
to nattering news columnists to off-grid online bloggers, there are more so-
called experts than ever before--and the noise can be downright deafening.
This no-bull, bottom-line guide from “”The Reformed Broker”” Josh Brown
and Yahoo Finance’s Jeff Macke will help you cut through the cacophony
and make the most of today’s media news. It’s an eye-opening crash course
in separating financial facts from fiction-featuring interviews with some of the
world’s most influential investors, including: Jim Cramer, Henry Blodget, Ben
Stein, Karen Finerman, Herb Greenberg, Barry Ritholtz.
You’ll also find invaluable insights from the original father of financial TV, Jim
Rogers, and from James Altucher, the most shockingly honest commentator in
the history of the medium.
Up-close. In-depth. All-true. Clash of the Financial Pundits is the one guide that
will change the way you look at markets and investing forever.
Authored By
Joshua M. Brown, Jeff Macke
Publication Date
2014
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FEEL THE FEAR AND DO IT

ANYWAY
The Phenomenal Classic that has Changed the Lives of Millions
Dynamic and inspirational, FEEL THE FEAR AND DO IT ANYWAY is filled with
concrete techniques to turn passivity into assertiveness. Dr. Susan Jeffers,
teaches you how to stop negative thinking patterns and reeducate your mind
to think more positively. You will learn: the vital 10-Step Positive Thinking
Process; how to risk a little every day; how to turn every decision into a “No-
Lose” situation, and much more.
Authored By
Susan Jeffers
Publication Date
1991
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FIGURING IT OUT
Sixty Years of Answering Investors’ Most Important Questions
In Figuring It Out: Answers to the Most Difficult Investment Questions, world-
renowned investing and finance guru Charles D. Ellis delivers a robust
collection of incisive essays on an array of perennial and contemporary
investing issues, from the rise and fall of performance investing to a
compilation of essential investing guidelines.
In the book, you’ll also find eye-opening discussions of:
• Whether bonds are an appropriate investment vehicle for long-term

investors.
• The costs of excessive liquidity in the typical portfolio.
• The characteristics of successful investment firms, and how to spot them.
A can’t-miss resource for the everyday retail investor, author Charles Ellis
draws on a lifetime of distinguished client service in the financial markets to
reward readers with common-sense and accessible advice that deserves to
be followed by anyone with an interest in maximizing their investment returns
over the long haul.
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FORTUNE’S FORMULA
The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the
Casinos and Wall Street
In 1956 two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting
rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital
age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein’s. The other was John L. Kelly
Jr., a Texas-born, gun-toting physicist. Together they applied the science of
information theory—the basis of computers and the Internet—to the problem
of making as much money as possible, as fast as possible.
Shannon and MIT mathematician Edward O. Thorp took the “”Kelly

formula”” to Las Vegas. It worked. They realized that there was even more
money to be made in the stock market. Thorp used the Kelly system with
his phenomenonally successful hedge fund, Princeton-Newport Partners.
Shannon became a successful investor, too, topping even Warren Buffett’s
rate of return. Fortune’s Formula traces how the Kelly formula sparked
controversy even as it made fortunes at racetracks, casinos, and trading
desks. It reveals the dark side of this alluring scheme, which is founded on
exploiting an insider’s edge.
Shannon believed it was possible for a smart investor to beat the market—and
Fortune’s Formula will convince you that he was right.
Authored By
William Poundstone
Publication Date
2006
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MARKET MIND GAMES

A Radical Psychology of Investing, Trading and Risk
What if the mystery of market crashes stems from a simple but total
misunderstanding of our own minds? Could everything we think we know
about ourselves — intelligence and rationality versus emotion and irrationality
— be off the mark? Yes!
Denise Shull introduces her radical and supremely rational approach to risk.
Her vision stems from the indisputable fact that human beings can’t make any
decision at all without emotion. We are taught that sidelining our emotions
is the best way to make good decisions — Shull declares the converse:
“emotions inform us”. Attempting to control them actually increases the risks
we take. Shull advocates treating feelings as data.
Shull logically but engagingly connects emotions, beliefs, and context to our
innate reaction to uncertainty and risk (yes, the two are different). In “”Market
Mind Games,”” she merges more than 20 years of studying risk decisions into
a single, astoundingly effective strategy.
A reasonable approach to emotion is the best way to win the investing game.
The methods Shull details in “Market Mind Games” shake the foundation of
conventional market and decision psychology. And, most important, they
work.
Authored By
Denise Shull
Publication Date
2011
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MISBEHAVING
The Making of Behavioural Economics
Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the
central agents in the economy are humans — predictable, error-prone
individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the
struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth — and change
the way we think about economics, ourselves, and our world.
Traditional economics assumes rational actors. Early on, Thaler realized

these Spock-like automatons were not like real people. We all succumb to
biases and make decisions that deviate from the standards of rationality
assumed by economists — we misbehave. And our misbehavior has serious
consequences. Dismissed at first by economists as a sideshow, the study
of human miscalculations and their effects on markets now drives efforts to
make better decisions in our lives, our businesses, and our governments.
Coupling recent discoveries in human psychology with a practical

understanding of incentives and market behavior, Thaler enlightens readers
about how to make smarter decisions in an increasingly mystifying world.
Misbehaving is a singular look into profound human foibles.
Authored By
Richard H. Thaler
Publication Date
2016
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MISTAKES WERE MADE (BUT NOT

BY ME)
Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of
public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Why the endless marital
quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in
ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell?
Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a

compelling look into how the brain is wired for self-justification. When we
make mistakes, we must calm the cognitive dissonance that jars our feelings
of self-worth. And so we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility,
restoring our belief that we are smart, moral, and right -- a belief that often
keeps us on a course that is dumb, immoral, and wrong.
Backed by years of research and delivered in lively, energetic prose, Mistakes

Were Made (But Not by Me) offers a fascinating explanation of self-deception
-- how it works, the harm it can cause, and how we can overcome it.
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Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson
Publication Date
2007
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MONEYBALL
The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Billy Beane had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget
that’s smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom
long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket
arms were the ticket to success. But Beane and his staff, buoyed by massive
amounts of carefully interpreted statistical data, believed that wins could be
had by more affordable methods such as hitters with high on-base percentage
and pitchers who get lots of ground outs.
Lewis was in the room with the A’s top management as they spent the
summer of 2002 adding and subtracting players and he provides outstanding
play-by-play. In the June player draft, Beane acquired nearly every prospect
he coveted and at the July trading deadline he engaged in a tense battle to
acquire a lefty reliever. Moneyball is populated with fascinating characters.
We meet Jeremy Brown, an overweight college catcher who most teams
project to be a 15th round draft pick. Sidearm pitcher Chad Bradford is
plucked from the White Sox triple-A club to be a key set-up man and catcher
Scott Hatteberg is rebuilt as a first baseman. Beane reinvents himself as a
front-office guru, relying on players completely unlike, say, Billy Beane. Lewis
offers accessible explanations of baseball stats and his roadmap of Beane’s
economic approach makes Moneyball an appealing reading experience for
business people and sports fans alike.
Authored By
Michael Lewis
Publication Date
2003
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MOODS AND MARKETS

A New Way to Invest in Good Times and in Bad
Peter Atwater has helped institutional investors, corporations and
policymakers map changing social moods to emerging market shifts, and use
that knowledge to identify huge new market opportunities.
In this book, Atwater shares his trademarked Horizon PreferenceTM approach

to selecting high-performance investments. Horizon PreferenceTM uses micro
and macro relationship horizons (“local” in bad times, and widening them to
the “global” in better times) and then translates that knowledge into better
investment decisions. Atwater’s Moods and Markets offers insights into
everything from market bubbles to the real challenges of making mergers
work
• Why “farm to table” and “locavore” movements are booming now, and
what’s likely to happen next
• Why Americans now want to rent homes even though it’s become far more
affordable to buy them
• Why the “Arab Spring” is bullish, and higher education is in deep trouble
• Which businesses prosper in a downturn, which prosper most in an upturn
– and why.
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Peter Atwater
Publication Date
2013
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MORE THAN YOU KNOW

Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places
Since its first publication, Michael J. Mauboussin’s popular guide to wise

investing has been translated into eight languages and has been named
best business book by BusinessWeek and best economics book by
Stragety+Business. Now updated to reflect current research and expanded to
include new chapters on investment philosophy, psychology, and strategy and
science as they pertain to money management, this volume is more than ever
the best chance to know more than the average investor.
Offering invaluable tools to better understand the concepts of choice and

risk, More Than You Know is a unique blend of practical advice and sound
theory, sampling from a wide variety of sources and disciplines. Mouboussin
builds on the ideas of visionaries, including Warren Buffett and E.O. Wilson,
but also finds wisdom in a broad and deep range of fields, such as casino
gambling, horse racing psychology, and evolutionary biology. For this edition,
Mauboussin includes fresh thoughts on human cognition, management
assessment, game theory, the role of intuition, and the mechanisms driving
the market’w mood swings, and explains what these topics tell us about smart
investing. More Than You Know shows how a multidisciplinary approach that
pays close attention that pays close attention to process and the psychology
of decision-making offers the best chance for long-ter financial results.
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NOISE
A Flow in Human Judgment
The authors define Noise as “the unwanted variability of judgments” where
bias are systematic errors in the same direction.
In Noise, the authors show the detrimental effects of inherent biases in judg-
ment in many fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic
science, bail, child protection, strategy, performance reviews, and personnel
selection. Wherever there is judgment, there is noise.
The book points out that most of us are unaware of these biases in judgment.
However, with a few simple remedies, people can reduce both noise and bias.
Reduction in noise makes for better decisions. Noise explains how and why
humans are so susceptible to noise in judgment—and what we can do about
it.
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Daniel Kahneman, Cass Sunstein, Olivier Sibony
Publication Date
2021
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NUDGE
Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Every day we make choices—about what to buy or eat, about financial
investments or our children’s health and education, even about the causes we
champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. Nudge is
about how we make these choices and how we can make better ones. Using
dozens of eye-opening examples and drawing on decades of behavioral
science research, Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and Harvard Law
School professor Cass R. Sunstein show that no choice is ever presented to
us in a neutral way, and that we are all susceptible to biases that can lead
us to make bad decisions. But by knowing how people think, we can use
sensible “choice architecture” to nudge people toward the best decisions
for ourselves, our families, and our society, without restricting our freedom of
choice.
Authored By
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
Publication Date
2009
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OUTLIERS
The Story of Success
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual
journey through the world of “”outliers””--the best and the brightest, the most
famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-
achievers different?
His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are
like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their
family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.
Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes
to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the
Beatles the greatest rock band.
Authored By
Malcolm Gladwell
Publication Date
2008
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PERSONAL BENCHMARK
Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment Management
In Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment
Management, Chuck Widger and Dr. Daniel Crosby outline the ways in which
a program of embedded behavioral finance, fueled by what matters most to
you, can be your protection against irrational financial behavior. Along the
way, you’ll learn how to improve your investment experience, increase returns
formerly sacrificed to misbehavior, and worry less about “The Economy” as
you become increasingly focused on “My Economy”.
Welcome to a new way of investing, a new paradigm for conceptualizing

wealth, and a system of turning emotion from your portfolio’s worst enemy into
its best friend!
In this new model, risk is simply the likelihood that we will underperform our
dreams. Irrationality is acting in ways that thwart our ability to reach those
dreams. And the optimal portfolio is not the one that generates the highest
return in abstraction, it is the one that helps us meet our goals without killing
our nerves before we get there.
This book gives advisors the tools needed to effectively communicate the
design and execution of the Personal Benchmark solution.
Authored By
Charles Widger, Daniel Crosby
Publication Date
2014
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PRINCIPLES
Life and Work
In Principles, Dalio shares what he’s learned over the course of his remarkable
career. He argues that life, management, economics, and investing can all be
systemized into rules and understood like machines. The book’s hundreds
of practical lessons, which are built around his cornerstones of “radical truth”
and “radical transparency,” include Dalio laying out the most effective ways
for individuals and organizations to make decisions, approach challenges,
and build strong teams. He also describes the innovative tools the firm uses
to bring an idea meritocracy to life, such as creating “baseball cards” for
all employees that distil their strengths and weaknesses, and employing
computerized decision-making systems to make believability-weighted
decisions. While the book brims with novel ideas for organizations and
institutions, Principles also offers a clear, straightforward approach to decision-
making that Dalio believes anyone can apply, no matter what they’re seeking
to achieve.
Here, from a man who has been called both “the Steve Jobs of investing” and
“the philosopher king of the financial universe”, is a rare opportunity to gain
proven advice unlike anything you’ll find in the conventional business press.
Authored By
Ray Dalio
Publication Date
2017
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QUIT
The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away
We are often told that the secret to success is hard work, determination, and
hours of practice. But in a fast-changing world, what if the really crucial skill
is knowing when to stick at something and when to change track and walk
away?
Quit makes the under-appreciated case for quitting and also shows you
how to get really good at it. Drawing on stories from elite athletes to Everest
climbers, comedians to musicians, Annie Duke (who left a successful poker
career) explains why learning to quit well is often crucial to success. She
provides clear strategies for working out when to cut your losses from a
business product that isn’t working, a relationship turned toxic, or a career that
won’t take you where you want to go.
You’ll learn how to spot the blocks to good quitting behaviour -- escalation
commitment, desire for certainty and the status quo bias -- and also how to
use tools like quitting contracts, flexible goal-setting and premortems to help
you quit cleanly and confidently.
Whether you’re facing a make-or-break business decision, a life-altering

personal choice or simply wanting to take more control of your life, Quit
provides a toolkit for change to help you make the best next move.
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Annie Duke
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2022
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RANGE
Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
In the book, the Author argues that range – defined as more diverse experi-
ence across multiple fields – is more relevant in today’s society than special-
ization because the “wicked problems” of the modern world require bridging
experience and knowledge from multiple fields to foster solutions.
David’s basic argument is that focus on early specialization is unwarranted.
He then argues that while specialization is useful for the kinds of problems
that occur in close, predictable environments, the modern world is character-
ized by multi-faceted problems which requires us to deal with a new situation
where we can’t rely on perfecting from known experience. As he puts it: “And
that is what a rapidly changing, wicked world demands – conceptual reason-
ing skill that can connect new ideas and work across contexts”.
David argues that range, combining knowledge and experience from multiple
fields and late specialization, is a better focus than early specialization.
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David Epstein
Publication Date
2019
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RISK SAVVY
How To Make Good Decisions
In the age of Big Data we often believe that our predictions about the future
are better than ever before. But as risk expert Gerd Gigerenzer shows, the
surprising truth is that in the real world, we often get better results by using
simple rules and considering less information.
In Risk Savvy, Gigerenzer reveals that most of us, including doctors, lawyers,
financial advisers, and elected officials, misunderstand statistics much more
often than we think, leaving us not only misinformed, but vulnerable to
exploitation. Yet there is hope. Anyone can learn to make better decisions
for their health, finances, family, and business without needing to consult an
expert or a super computer, and Gigerenzer shows us how.
Risk Savvy is an insightful and easy-to-understand remedy to our collective

information overload and an essential guide to making smart, confident
decisions in the face of uncertainty.
Authored By
Gerd Gigerenzer
Publication Date
2013
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SIGNALS
The Breakdown of the Social Contract and the Rise of
Geopolitics
Economic signals are everywhere, from fashion magazine covers to grocery
stores to military events. Malmgren empowers the public by revealing the
story of the world economy in plain English. Central banks are trying hard to
create inflation but say there is little chance it will happen, yet many feel their
cost of living is already rising, especially in emerging markets.
The conflicting pressures are now stressing and breaking the vital social
contracts that exist between citizens and their states, setting in motion many
seemingly unrelated outcomes: social unrest, the movement of manufacturing
from emerging markets back to the US and the West, and even the near
misses between the spy planes, fighter jets and naval vessels of the US,
NATO, Japan, Russia and China.
The one thing that can fix all this is innovation; acts of calculated risk taking
that people undertake. By being alert to the many signals around us, anyone
can be better prepared to navigate through the challenges of the world
economy.
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Dr. Philippa Malmgren
Publication Date
2015
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SOCIONOMIC CAUSALITY IN
POLITICS
How Social Mood Influences Everything from Elections to
Geopolitics
Suppose you had a single framework that allowed you to understand why
certain candidates win elections and why nations go to war. And why a
country’s internal politics can be peaceful one minute and beset with strikes,
protests and terrorism the next. Such is the value of Socionomic Causality in
Politics. In a paradigm-shifting work that trumps conventional wisdom, Robert
Prechter and fellow contributors unveil why politics frequently confound even
the most brilliant pollsters, historians, politicians, social scientists and the
media—and how you can understand and sometimes even anticipate political
changes with one simple shift in your perspective. Whether you wish to
understand the actions of governments or to get elected to office, Socionomic
Causality in Politics gives you the tools to be at the forefront of the most
promising work in the field of behavioral studies.
Authored By
Robert R. Prechter
Publication Date
2017
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SUPERFORECASTING
The Art and Science of Prediction
In Superforecasting, Tetlock and coauthor Dan Gardner offer a masterwork
on prediction, drawing on decades of research and the results of a massive,
government-funded forecasting tournament. The Good Judgment Project
involves tens of thousands of ordinary people—including a Brooklyn
filmmaker, a retired pipe installer, and a former ballroom dancer—who set
out to forecast global events. Some of the volunteers have turned out to
be astonishingly good. They’ve beaten other benchmarks, competitors,
and prediction markets. They’ve even beaten the collective judgment
of intelligence analysts with access to classified information. They are
“superforecasters”.
Tetlock and Gardner show us how we can learn from this elite group. Weaving
together stories of forecasting successes and failures and interviews with a
range of high-level decision makers, from David Petraeus to Robert Rubin,
they show that good forecasting doesn’t require powerful computers or
arcane methods. It involves gathering evidence from a variety of sources,
thinking probabilistically, working in teams, keeping score, and being willing to
admit error and change course. Superforecasting offers the first demonstrably
effective way to improve our ability to predict the future—whether in business,
finance, politics, international affairs, or daily life—and is destined to become a
modern classic.
Authored By
Philip E. Tetlock
Publication Date
2015
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THE ART OF THINKING CLEARLY

Better Thinking, Better Decisions
In engaging prose and with practical examples and anecdotes, an eye-
opening look at human reasoning and essential reading for anyone with
important decisions to make.
Have you ever:

• Invested time in something that, with hindsight, just wasn’t worth it?
• Overpayed in an Ebay auction?
• Continued doing something you knew was bad for you?
• Sold stocks too late, or too early?
• Taken credit for success, but blamed failure on external circumstances?
• Backed the wrong horse?
These are examples of cognitive biases, simple errors we all make in our day-
to-day thinking. But by knowing what they are and how to spot them, we can
avoid them and make better choices-whether dealing with a personal problem
or a business negotiation; trying to save money or make money; working out
what we do or don’t want in life: and how best to get it.
This indispensable book will change the way you think and transform your
decision-making-work, at home, every day. It reveals, in 99 short chapters, the
most common errors of judgment, and how to avoid them.
Authored By
Rolf Dobelli
Publication Date
2011
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THE BEHAVIORAL INVESTOR

Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places
From the New York Times bestselling author of the book named the best
investment book of 2017 comes The Behavioral Investor, an applied look
at how psychology ought to inform the art and science of investment
management.
In The Behavioral Investor, psychologist and asset manager Dr. Daniel

Crosby examines the sociological, neurological and psychological factors
that influence our investment decisions and sets forth practical solutions for
improving both returns and behavior. Readers will be treated to the most
comprehensive examination of investor behavior to date and will leave with
concrete solutions for refining decision-making processes, increasing self-
awareness and constraining the fatal flaws to which most investors are prone.
The Behavioral Investor takes a sweeping tour of human nature before

arriving at the specifics of portfolio construction, rooted in the belief that it is
only as we come to a deep understanding of “why” that we are left with any
clue as to “how” we ought to invest.
Authored By
Daniel Crosby
Publication Date
2017
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THE BIGGEST BLUFF

How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Maria Konnikova had never played poker before and didn’t even know the
rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee, and
convinced him to be her mentor. But she knew her man: a famously thoughtful
and broad-minded player, he was intrigued by her pitch that she wasn’t
interested in making money so much as learning about life. She had faced a
stretch of personal bad luck, and her reflections on the role of chance had led
her to a giant of game theory, who pointed her to poker as the ultimate master
class in learning to distinguish between what can be controlled and what
can’t. Maria had a Ph.D. in psychology and an acclaimed and growing body of
work on human behavior and how to hack it. So Seidel was in.
Under Seidel’s guidance, Konnikova did have many epiphanies about life that
derived from her new pursuit, including how to better read her opponents and
herself. She also began to win. In a little over a year, she began making money
from tournaments. She won a major title, got a sponsor, and got used to
being on television. She even learned to like Las Vegas. But in the end, Maria
Konnikova is a writer and student of human behavior, and ultimately the point
was to render her incredible journey into a container for its invaluable lessons.
The biggest bluff of all, is that skill is enough. ep us moving through many a
dark patch, until the luck once again breaks our way.
Authored By
Maria Konnikova
Publication Date
2020
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THE DELUSIONS OF CROWDS

Throughout human history compelling stories have catalyzed the spread of
contagious narratives through susceptible groups—with enormous, often
disastrous, consequences.
Inspired by Charles Mackay’s 19th-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary

Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Bernstein engages with
mass delusion with the same curiosity and passion, but armed with the latest
scientific research that explains the biological, evolutionary, and psychosocial
roots of human irrationality.
Bernstein’s chronicles reveal the huge cost and alarming implications of mass
mania. Bernstein observes that if we can absorb the history and biology of
mass delusion, we can recognize it more readily in our own time, and avoid its
frequently dire impact.
NEW
Authored By
William J. Bermstein
Publication Date
2021
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THE DEVIL’S FINANCIAL

DICTIONARY
The Devil’s Financial Dictionary skewers the plutocrats and bureaucrats who
gave us exploding mortgages, freakish risks, and banks too big to fail. And it
distills the complexities, absurdities, and pomposities of Wall Street into plain
truths and aphorisms anyone can understand.
An indispensable survival guide to the hostile wilderness of today’s financial

markets, The Devil’s Financial Dictionary delivers practical insights with a
scorpion’s sting. It cuts through the fads and fakery of Wall Street and clears a
safe path for investors between euphoria and despair.
Staying out of financial purgatory has never been this fun.
NEW
Authored By
Jason Zweig
Publication Date
2007
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THE DISCIPLINED TRADER

DEVELOPING WINNING ATTITUDES
Developing Winning Attitudes
With rare insight based on his firsthand commodity trading experience,
author Mark Douglas demonstrates how the mental matters that allow us
function effectively in society are often psychological barriers in trading. After
examining how we develop losing attitudes, this book prepares you for a
thorough “”mental housecleaning”” of deeply rooted thought processes. And
then it shows the reader how to develop and apply attitudes and behaviors
that transcend psychological obstacles and lead to success.
The Disciplined Trader helps you join the elite few who have learned how
to control their trading behavior (the few traders who consistently take the
greatest percentage of profits out of the market) by developing a systematic,
step-by-step approach to winning week after week, month after month.
Authored By
Mark Douglas
Publication Date
1990
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THE GEOMETRY OF WEALTH

How to Shape a Life of Money and Meaning
How does money figure into a happy life? Behavioral finance expert Brian
Portnoy delivers an inspired answer, building on the critical distinction
between being rich an being wealthy.
Portnoy takes readers on a journey toward wealth, informed by disciplines

ranging from ancient history to modern neuroscience. He contends that
tackling the big questions about a joyful life and tending to financial decisions
are complementary, not separate, tasks. These big questions include:
• How is the human brain wired for two distinct experiences of happiness?
And why can money “buy” one but not the other?
• What are the touchstones of a meaningful life, and are they affordable?
• Why is market savvy among the least important sources of wealth but self-
awareness is among the most?
• How to find a balance between wanting more while being content with
enough?
This journey memorably contours along three basic shapes: A circle, triangle
and square help us to visualize how we adapt to evolving circumstances, set
priorities, and find empowerment in simplicity. In this book, Portnoy reveals
that true wealth is achievable for many.
Authored By
Brian Portnoy
Publication Date
2018
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THE ILLUSION OF CONTROL

Why Financial Crises Happen & What We Can or Can Not Do
About It
Finance brings prosperity and danger. We use measurements of risk to try
and control the dangers of investments while maximizing our growth. Current
strategies rely on mathematical techniques and historical data to predict future
risk, but ignore the human component, failing to take into account the nature
of risk inherent in the system.
Jón Daníelsson argues that critical risk is generated from within, through the
interactions of individuals and perpetuated by their beliefs, objectives, abilities,
and prejudices. He asserts that the widespread belief that risk originates
outside the financial system frustrates our ability to measure and manage
it, and the likely consequences of new regulations will help alleviate small-
scale risks but, perversely, encourage excessive risk taking. Daníelsson uses
lessons from past and recent crises to show that diversity is the best way to
safeguard our financial system.
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Authored By
Jon Danielsson
Publication Date
2022
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THE INVESTOR’S PARADOX

The Power of Simplicity in a World of Overwhelming Choice
A troubled global economy, unstable markets, and a huge number of
investment choices create a dangerous landscape for individual and
institutional investors alike. To tackle this, most of us rely on a portfolio of fund
managers to take risk on our behalves. Brian Portnoy delivers a framework
for choosing the right ones, and avoiding the losers. Portnoy reveals that the
right answers are found by confronting our own subconscious biases and
behavioral quirks. A paradox we all face is the natural desire for more choice
in our lives, yet the more we have, the less satisfied we become – whether
we’re at the grocery store, choosing doctors, or flipping through hundreds of
TV channels. So, too, with investing, where there are literally tens of thousands
of funds from which to choose. We crave abundant investment choices to
conquer volatile markets, yet with greater flexibility, the more overwhelmed
and less empowered we become.
The Investor’s Paradox lights a path toward simplicity in a world of dangerous

markets and overwhelming choice. Written in accessible, jargon-free
language, with a healthy skepticism of today’s money management industry,
it offers not only practical tools for investment success but also a message of
empowerment for investors drowning in possibility.
Authored By
Brian Portnoy
Publication Date
2014
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THE KELLY CAPITAL GROWTH

INVESTMENT CRITERION
Theory And Practice
This volume provides the definitive treatment of fortune’s formula or the Kelly
capital growth criterion as it is often called. The strategy is to maximize long
run wealth of the investor by maximizing the period by period expected utility
of wealth with a logarithmic utility function. Mathematical theorems show
that only the log utility function maximizes asymptotic long run wealth and
minimizes the expected time to arbitrary large goals. In general, the strategy
is risky in the short term but as the number of bets increase, the Kelly bettor’s
wealth tends to be much larger than those with essentially different strategies.
So most of the time, the Kelly bettor will have much more wealth than these
other bettors but the Kelly strategy can lead to considerable losses a small
percent of the time. There are ways to reduce this risk at the cost of lower
expected final wealth using fractional Kelly strategies that blend the Kelly
suggested wager with cash. The various classic reprinted papers and the new
ones written specifically for this volume cover various aspects of the theory
and practice of dynamic investing. Good and bad properties are discussed, as
are fixed-mix and volatility induced growth strategies. The relationships with
utility theory and the use of these ideas by great investors are featured.
Authored By
Leonard C. MacLean, William T. Ziemba, Edward O. Thorp
Publication Date
2011
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THE LATTE FACTOR

Why You Don’t Have to Be Rich to Live Rich
In this compelling, heartwarming parable, Bach and his bestselling coauthor
John David Mann (The Go-Giver) tell the story of Zoey, a twenty-something
woman living and working in New York City. Like many young professionals,
Zoey is struggling to make ends meet under a growing burden of credit
card and student loan debt, working crazy hours at her dream job but still
not earning enough to provide a comfortable financial cushion. At her boss’s
suggestion, she makes friends with Henry, the elderly barista at her favorite
Brooklyn coffee shop.
Henry soon reveals his “Three Secrets to Financial Freedom,” ideas Zoey
dismisses at first but whose true power she ultimately comes to appreciate.
Over the course of a single week, Zoey discovers that she already earns
enough to secure her financial future and realize her truest dreams—all she
has to do is make a few easy shifts in her everyday routine.
The Latte Factor demystifies the secrets to achieving financial freedom,

inspiring you to realize that it’s never too late to reach for your dreams. By
following the simple, proven path that Henry shows Zoey, anyone can make
small changes today that will have big impact for a lifetime.
Authored By
David Bach, John David Mann
Publication Date
2019
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THE LAWS OF TRADING

A Traders Guide To Better Decision-Making For Everyone
Every decision is a trade. Learn to think about the ones you should do -- and
the ones you shouldn’t.
Decision making lies at the heart of each of our journeys in life. All of our
relationships and decisions involve trading at some level. If you can master
the decision-making skills needed to profitably trade in modern markets, you
can master decision-making in all walks of life. This book covers, exactly, those
skills.
Agustin Lebron began his career as a trader and researcher at Jane Street
Capital, one of the largest market-making firms in the world. Over the years
he traded many kinds of securities: equities, futures, commodities, options,
and an assortment of other derivatives, and has created, developed and
implemented several successful trading strategies.
He currently is in a leadership role at leadership.dev, Agustin brings incredible

depth and perspective to his client’s challenges.
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Authored By
Agustin Lebron
Publication Date
2019
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THE LAWS OF WEALTH

Psychology and the Secret to Investing Success
In The Laws of Wealth, psychologist and behavioral finance expert Daniel
Crosby offers an accessible and applied take on a discipline that has long
tended toward theory at the expense of the practical. Readers are treated to
real, actionable guidance as the promise of behavioral finance is realised and
practical applications for everyday investors are delivered.
He begins by outlining ten rules that are the hallmarks of good investor
behavior, including ‘Forecasting is for Weathermen’ and ‘If You’re Excited, It’s
Probably a Bad Idea’. He then goes on to introduce a unique new taxonomy
of behavioral investment risk that will enable investors and academics alike to
understand behavioral risk in a newly coherent and complete way. From here,
attention turns to the four ways in which behavioral risk can be combatted and
the five equity selection methods investors should harness to take advantage
of behaviorally-induced opportunities in the stock market.
Throughout, readers are treated to anecdotes, research and graphics that

illustrate the lessons in memorable ways. And in highly valuable ‘What
now?’ summaries at the end of each chapter, Crosby provides clear, concise
direction on what investors should think, ask and do to benefit from the
behavioral research.
Authored By
Daniel Crosby
Publication Date
2016
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THE LITTLE BOOK OF BEHAVIORAL

INVESTING
How Not to Be Your Own Worst Enemy
A detailed guide to overcoming the most frequently encountered
psychological pitfalls of investing.
Bias, emotion, and overconfidence are just three of the many behavioral traits
that can lead investors to lose money or achieve lower returns. Behavioral
finance, which recognizes that there is a psychological element to all investor
decision-making, can help you overcome this obstacle.
In The Little Book of Behavioral Investing, expert James Montier takes you
through some of the most important behavioral challenges faced by investors.
Montier reveals the most common psychological barriers, clearly showing how
emotion, overconfidence, and a multitude of other behavioral traits, can affect
investment decision-making.
Author James Montier is one of the world’s foremost behavioral analysts. This
book is written in a straightforward and accessible style, The Little Book of
Behavioral Investing will enable you to identify and eliminate behavioral traits
that can hinder your investment endeavors and show you how to go about
achieving superior returns in the process.
Authored By
James Montier
Publication Date
2010
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THE LOGIC OF FAILURE

Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations
Why do we make mistakes? Are there certain errors common to failure,
whether in a complex enterprise or daily life? In this truly indispensable
book, Dietrich Dörner identifies what he calls the “logic of failure”—certain
tendencies in our patterns of thought that, while appropriate to an older,
simpler world, prove disastrous for the complex world we live in now. Working
with imaginative and often hilarious computer simulations, he analyzes the
roots of catastrophe, showing city planners in the very act of creating gridlock
and disaster, or public health authorities setting the scene for starvation. The
Logic of Failure is a compass for intelligent planning and decision-making that
can sharpen the skills of managers, policymakers and everyone involved in
the daily challenge of getting from point A to point B.
Authored By
Dietrich Dörner
Publication Date
1989
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THE LONG GAME

As a professor in executive education at Duke University Dorie points out that we
all know, intellectually, that lasting success takes persistence and effort. In The
Long Game, she argues that it’s about doing small things over time to achieve our
goals—and being consistent in our engagement no matter what the challenges.
The book concludes that we need to reorient ourselves to see the big picture so we
can tap into the power of small changes that, made today, will have an enormous
and disproportionate impact on our future success. We need to start playing The
Long Game.
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Authored By
Dorie Clark
Publication Date
2021
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THE MATHEMATICS OF GAMBLING

More than twenty years after the publication of Beat the Dealer, the best-
selling bookon winning at blackjack, Dr. Edward O. Thorp again focused his
attention on gambling games with an analysis of:
• BACCARAT — Can card counting eliminate the house advantage?

• BACKGAMMON — Playing optimally in endgame situations.
• BLACKJACK — Understanding blackjack systems and detecting cheating.
• GAMBLING GAMES — Which ones you cannot beat and why.
• MONEY MANAGEMENT — How to maximize your return and what
strategies to avoid.
• ROULETTE and the WHEEL OF FORTUNE — Using the laws of physics to
predict the next winning number.
In easy-to-understand language, learn what a leading mathematician

discovered in thirty years of computer-assisted research. This is the long-
awaited publication of Dr. Thorp’s accumulated work on gambling. Before you
risk your money, find out what the “Albert Einstein of Gambling” has to say!
Authored By
Edward O. Thorp
Publication Date
1984
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THE ORGANIZED MIND

Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts
his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details.
The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data.

At the same time, we’re expected to make more—and faster—decisions
about our lives than ever before. No wonder, then, that the average American
reports frequently losing car keys or reading glasses, missing appointments,
and feeling worn out by the effort required just to keep up.
But somehow some people become quite accomplished at managing

information flow. In The Organized Mind, Daniel J. Levitin uses the latest brain
science to demonstrate how those people excel.
With lively, entertaining chapters on everything from the kitchen junk drawer
to health care to executive office workflow, Levitin reveals how new research
into the cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory can be applied to the
challenges of our daily lives. The Organized Mind shows how to navigate the
churning flood of information in the twenty-first century with a neuroscientific
perspective.
Authored By
Daniel J. Levitin
Publication Date
2014
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MONEY

Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness doing well with money isn’t
necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior
is hard to teach, even to really smart people. How to manage money, invest
it, and make business decisions are typically considered to involve a lot of
mathematical calculations, where data and formulae tell us exactly what to do.
But in the real world, people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet.
They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal
history, your unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd
incentives are scrambled together. In the psychology of money, the author
shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money
and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important
matters.
Authored By
Morgan Housel
Publication Date
2020
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THE RESEARCH DRIVEN INVESTOR

How to Use Information, Data and Analysis for Investment
Success
Today’s volatile market environment makes it increasingly difficult for regular
investors to achieve top results. The Research Driven Investor presents walk-
through examples of a wide variety of investment models, based on more
than 100 years of stock market data and research from Ned Davis Research,
that will help investors use technical indicators to consistently produce clear
buy and sell signals—and achieve top results. Hayes shows investors how to
develop an accurate stock market outlook, then build an investment strategy
to fit their specific goals, risk tolerance, and time horizon. This proactive
approach to investment success shows investors, among other points, how
to: *Consistently identify market turning points *Allocate funds among asset
classes *Focus on emerging market themes.
Authored By
Timothy Hayes
Publication Date
2000
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THE SUCCESS EQUATION

Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing
In most domains of life, skill and luck seem hopelessly entangled. Different
levels of skill and varying degrees of good and bad luck are the realities that
shape our lives—yet few of us are adept at accurately distinguishing between
the two.
In this provocative book, Michael Mauboussin helps to untangle these intricate

strands to offer the structure needed to analyze the relative importance of
skill and luck. He offers concrete suggestions for making these insights work
to your advantage. Once we understand the extent to which skill and luck
contribute to our achievements, we can learn to deal with them in making
decisions.
• The Success Equation helps us move toward this goal by:

• Establishing a foundation so we better understand skill and luck, and can
pinpoint where each is most relevant.
• Helping us develop the analytical tools necessary to understand skill and
luck.
Showcasing Mauboussin’s trademark wit, insight, and analytical genius, this is

a must-read for anyone seeking to make better decisions—in business and in
life.
Authored By
Publication Date
2012
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THE UNDOING PROJECT

A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky
wrote a series of breathtakingly original papers that invented the field of
behavioral economics. One of the greatest partnerships in the history of
science, Kahneman and Tversky’s extraordinary friendship incited a revolution
in Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new
approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis’s own
work possible. In The Undoing Project, Lewis shows how their Nobel Prize–
winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.
Authored By
Michael Lewis
Publication Date
2016
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THINK AGAIN
The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
In Think Again: The Power of Knowing What you Don’t Know, Adam Grant
talks about ways of rethinking our lives and actions. He relies on the idea of
thinking like a scientist in the process of examining our lives and our goals.
In this book Adam examines our inherent biases and how the desire for
what we want to see causes us to seek out information that confirms our
preexisting beliefs. He encourages the reader to think like a scientist, having
a hypothesis but not drawing conclusions and keeping an open mind that
constantly is learning and questioning.
He dives into the hierarchy of disagreement and the art of negotiation, and
the biases and points of view that influence our ability to be affective at these
times.
Grant is a psychology professor at the Wharton School at the University of

Pennsylvania, as well as an entrepreneur and podcast host. In this book Adam
argues for the power of rethinking and unlearning to better understand our
world and ourselves.
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Adam Grant
Publication Date
2021
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THINK FOR YOURSELF

Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial
Intelligence
During the 2014 Ebola epidemic, a man who had recently returned from West
Africa with a fever and abdominal pain entered a hospital in Dallas—and was
sent home. Even after learning the patient had come from Liberia, ground zero
of the Ebola hot zone, not one healthcare worker considered the possibility of
it being Ebola. Shortly after the man died, one of the nurses who had treated
him was cleared to board a commercial flight despite having a high fever. She
was later confirmed to be infected with Ebola.
How could this happen? Harvard lecturer and global trend watcher Vikram
Mansharamani shows in this perspective-shifting book, our complex, data-
flooded world has made us over reliant on experts, protocols, and technology.
We’ve stopped thinking for ourselves. Vikram illustrates how we have
outsourced too much of our thinking, relinquishing our autonomy.
Of course, experts, protocols, and computer-based systems are essential to

helping us make informed decisions. What we need is a new approach for
integrating these information sources more effectively, harnessing the value
they provide without undermining our own autonomy. The author provides
principles and techniques for doing just that, empowering readers with a more
critical approach to making decisions.
Authored By
Vikram Mansharamani
Publication Date
2020
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THINKING IN BETS
Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts
In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most
controversial calls in football history: With 26 seconds remaining, and trailing
by four at the Patriots’ one-yard line, he called for a pass instead of a hand off
to his star running back. The pass was intercepted and the Seahawks lost.
Critics called it the dumbest play in history. But was the call really that bad? Or
did Carroll actually make a great move that was ruined by bad luck?
Even the best decision doesn’t yield the best outcome every time. There’s
always an element of luck that you can’t control, and there is always
information that is hidden from view. So the key to long-term success is to
think in bets: How sure am I? What are the possible ways things could turn
out? What decision has the highest odds of success? Did I land in the unlucky
10% on the strategy that works 90% of the time? Or is my success attributable
to dumb luck rather than great decision making?
By shifting your thinking from a need for certainty to a goal of accurately

assessing what you know and what you don’t, you’ll be less vulnerable to
reactive emotions, knee-jerk biases, and destructive habits in your decision
making. You’ll become more confident, calm, compassionate and successful in
the long run.
Authored By
Annie Duke
Publication Date
2018
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THINKING, FAST AND SLOW

In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a
groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the
way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower,
more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary
capabilities—and also the faults and biases—of fast thinking, and reveals the
pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior.
The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the
difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges
of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive
biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next
vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two
systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.
Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman

reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into
the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights
into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and
how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that
often get us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you
think about thinking.
Authored By
Daniel Kahneman
Publication Date
2011
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TRADING IN THE ZONE

Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline and a Winning
Attitude
Douglas uncovers the underlying reasons for lack of consistency and helps
traders overcome the ingrained mental habits that cost them money. He takes
on the myths of the market and exposes them one by one teaching traders to
look beyond random outcomes, to understand the true realities of risk, and to
be comfortable with the “probabilities” of market movement that governs all
market speculation.
Authored By
Mark Douglas
Publication Date
2000
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TRADING TO WIN
The Psychology of Mastering the Markets
Trading to Win gives you the essential tools to overcome outmoded, self-
limiting beliefs and mindsets that may be keeping you from a higher level of
success. This powerful program will help psych you into a less stressful, more
self-possessed mastery of the trading game and help you reach goals you
may never have thought possible.
The trading arena has produced its share of select “super-traders”, market
practitioners who set themselves apart from the rest of the field with one
distinct advantage: mental and emotional toughness. These master traders
in this highly risky, highly competitive arena possess an edge that keeps
them from being distracted by fear, self-doubt, greed, and other emotional
components that can cause major losses and prevent gains from soaring to
new highs.
Trading to Win presents a step-by-step, goal-oriented program for building

the mental and emotional stamina to win on an unprecedented level. This
proven approach spotlights a set of philosophical and behavioral principles
designed to assist you in implementing proactive trading strategies, as well as
developing the mindset needed to trade effectively in the realm of uncertainty.
Trading to Win shows you how to apply key concepts where it counts—in
actual trading room situations.
Authored By
Ari Kiev
Publication Date
1998
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YOUR MONEY & YOUR BRAIN

How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You
Rich
Drawing on the latest scientific research, Jason Zweig shows what happens
in your brain when you think about money and tells investors how to take
practical, simple steps to avoid common mistakes and become more
successful.
In Your Money and Your Brain, Jason Zweig explains why smart people
make stupid financial decisions—and what they can do to avoid these
mistakes. Zweig, a veteran financial journalist, draws on the latest research
in neuroeconomics, a fascinating new discipline that combines psychology,
neuroscience, and economics to better understand financial decision
making. He shows why we often misunderstand risk and why we tend to be
overconfident about our investment decisions.
Your Money and Your Brain is as entertaining as it is enlightening. In the

course of his research, Zweig visited leading neuroscience laboratories and
subjected himself to numerous experiments. He blends anecdotes from these
experiences with stories about investing mistakes, including confessions of
stupidity from some highly successful people. Then he draws lessons and
offers original practical steps that investors can take to make wiser decisions.
Authored By
Jason Zweig
Publication Date
2007
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MANAGED
FUTURES
ESSENTIALS
A Survey of the Managed Futures Industry�� 204

Ernest Jaffarian
Commodity Trading Advisors �� 205
Greg N. Gregoriou
Economics of Futures Trading�� 206
Thomas Applegate Hieronymus
High-Performance Managed Futures��207
Mark H. Melin
Managed Futures�� 208
Yasin Sebastian Qureshi & Maria Katharina Heiden
Managed Futures and Their Role in Investment Portfolios �� 209
Don Chance
Managed Futures for Institutional Investors �� 210
Galen Burghardt & Brian Walls
Managed Futures in the Institutional Portfolio�� 211
Charles B. Epstein
Managed Trading �� 212
Jack D. Schwager
202
Panic-Proof Investing�� 213
Thomas F. Basso
Portfolio Investment Opportunities in Managed FUTUres �� 214
David M. Darst
Simple But Not Easy �� 215
Richard Oldfield
Starting Out in Futures Trading �� 216
Mark Powers
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Options and Futures��217
Scott Barrie
The Futures Game �� 218
Frank J. Jones & Richard J. Teweles
The Handbook of Managed Futures �� 219
Carl Peters & Ben Warwick
Winning in the Futures Market�� 220
George Angell
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A SURVEY OF THE MANAGED

FUTURES INDUSTRY
Managed futures as an industry has existed since the 1940’s with federal
oversight since 1974, and is the predecessor to the hedge fund industry. While
hedge funds are generally more well-known, managed futures has long been
known to the academic world because of the strategic value it can give to
a portfolio. Evolving from the world of futures, managed futures has quietly
grown to $168 billion in assets, and is being recognized by institutions for its
unique characteristics and its potential for providing truly diversifying yield
enhancements, often referred to as a portable alpha. This study is intended to
provide a background of the history, characteristics and current practices of
managed futures, along with a glimpse into the future of the industry.
Authored By
Ernest Jaffarian
Publication Date
2007
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COMMODITY TRADING ADVISORS

Risk, Performance Analysis, and Selection
Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) are an increasingly popular and
potentially profitable investment alternative for institutional investors and high-
net-worth individuals. Commodity Trading Advisors is one of the first books to
study their performance in detail and analyze the “survivorship bias” present
in CTA performance data. This book investigates the many benefits and risks
associated with CTAs, examining the risk/return characteristics of a number
of different strategies deployed by CTAs from a sophisticated investor’s
perspective. A contributed work, its editors and contributing authors are
among today’s leading voices on the topic of commodity trading advisors and
a veritable “Who’s Who” in hedge fund and CTA research.
Greg N. Gregoriou (Plattsburgh, NY) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance

and Research Coordinator in the School of Business and Economics at the
State University of New York. Vassilios N. Karavas (Amherst, MA) is Director
of Research at Schneeweis Partners. Francois-Serge Lhabitant (Coppet,
Switzerland) is a FAME Research Fellow, and a Professor of Finance at EDHEC
(France) and at HEC University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Fabrice Rouah
(Montreal, Quebec) is Institut de Finance Mathematique de Montreal Scholar
in the finance program at McGill University.
Authored By
Greg N. Gregoriou
Publication Date
2004
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ECONOMICS OF FUTURES
TRADING
For Commercial and Personal Profit
This is a ‘how to’ guide for futures commodity trading, explaining what markets
are about and how to use them. It is also an appraisal of the adequacy and
effectiveness of the system in the performance of its economic functions.
Professor Hieronymus has developed notions about how markets should be
run and regulated. Salient points include:
• Futures trading is a remarkable close approximation to the classical

economic concept of pure competition.
• The markets are mainly about the pricing of commodities, which is
speculative.
• Hedging, in its standard context, is often a nonsense term. Equal and
opposite is still speculative.
• Market dominance is more apt to be accomplished by hedgers than
speculators, and regulation has generally restricted speculation and
decreased competition.
The markets are relatively free of monopolistic influences but a preoccupation

with price distortion has hampered market growth and development.
Authored By
Thomas Applegate Hieronymus
Publication Date
1971
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HIGH-PERFORMANCE MANAGED
FUTURES
The New Way to Diversify Your Portfolio
Financial advisors have long ignored managed futures. Yet, in the past thirty
years, managed futures have significantly outperformed traditional stock and
bond investments. In High-Performance Managed Futures: The New Way to
Diversity Your Portfolio, author Mark H. Melin advises investors to question the
commonly held belief of stocks and bonds, buy and hold. The first book of its
kind, Melin advances a Nobel Prize winning investment method that’s been
updated for today’s world to describe how managed futures can be used to
design portfolios independent of the ups and downs of the stock market. The
book:
• Details a new path for managing investments that’s not entirely dependent
on the economy at large.
• Describes meaningful asset diversification, while exposing Wall Street
myths on the subject.
Many of today’s investor’s are betrayed by either short-term thinking or the

now outdated buy and hold investing philosophy. High-Performance Managed
Futures details how to develop a stock market neutral investment portfolio
designed for success in the long-term.
Authored By
Mark H. Melin
Publication Date
2010
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MANAGED FUTURES
Ensure your Portfolio: Opportunities, Mechanisms and
Strategies
Despite its almost 50-year history, the asset class of managed futures is
almost unknown to Germany’s investors. They offer attractive returns with
acceptable risks. The book offers interested investors all the important
background information they need to make a qualified decision about
investing in managed futures. The authors explain how returns are generated,
what costs arise, what risks exist and how managed futures have developed
in comparison to other investments.
Authored By
Yasin Sebastian Qureshi & Maria Katharina Heiden
Publication Date
2009
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MANAGED FUTURES AND THEIR

ROLE IN INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS
One of the many advantages managed futures offer is that their returns have
low correlations with the returns of other traditional asset classes-even though
they can entail significant costs. This monograph provides an overview of the
industry, discusses the advantages and disadvantages of managed futures,
reviews their historical performance record, presents a method for evaluating
their performance in a portfolio, and lays out how to establish a managed
futures program.
Authored By
Don Chance
Publication Date
1991
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MANAGED FUTURES FOR

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS
Analysis and Portfolio Construction
A practical guide to institutional investing success Managed Futures for
Institutional Investors is an essential guide that walks you through the
important questions that need to be addressed before investing in this asset
class and contains helpful direction for investors during the investing process.
Backed by years of institutional experience, the authors reveal the

opportunities offered by managed futures. They also include information on
practices in the managed futures area and present the various analytical tools
and building blocks required to use managed futures effectively. The book
also contains insight on the issues that must be addressed when building and
evaluating portfolios.
Shows where to find data to evaluate managed futures and explains how
managed futures are regulated Offers guidance on how to apply classic
portfolio construction tools to managed futures Reveals how managed futures
investments can help investors evaluate and meet risk, return, and liquidity
objectives Managed Futures for Institutional Investors provides all the practical
information to manage this type of investment well.
Authored By
Galen Burghardt & Brian Walls
Publication Date
2011
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MANAGED FUTURES IN THE

INSTITUTIONAL PORTFOLIO
Risk, Performance Analysis, and Selection
Provides practical, comprehensive information and strategies for using
managed futures successfully. Clearly explains the benefits of managed
futures and their role in a traditional portfolio. Uses case studies and firsthand
reports to show how corporations are using managed futures. Written by over
a dozen top experts in the fields of futures fund and portfolio management.
Authored By
Charles B. Epstein
Publication Date
1992
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MANAGED TRADING
Myths & Truths
An in-depth investigation into the increasingly popular investment: managed
futures―written by one of the world’s leading authorities.
“Jack Schwager has written the definitive book on managed futures investing.
It is exhaustive in coverage, and the analysis is exceptionally rigorous. The
writing is refreshingly candid and sure to provoke discussion on many
important topics in the managed futures industry. This book should be
required reading for anyone considering investing in managed futures.”
— Scott Irwin Professor, The Ohio State University
“Jack continues to be both an educator and a portfolio manager. Managed

Trading is a wonderful book and much needed in the industry. I consider it
required reading for investors and financial industry professionals. Finally, a
road map which outlines and explores investment issues succinctly.”
— M. Elaine Crocker President, Moore Capital Management, Inc.
“This book is a ‘must-read’ for anyone thinking of investing in managed

futures. Schwager combines the best of academic research on managed
futures investments with his own practitioner experience...”
— Franklin R. Edwards Arthur F. Burns, Professor, Finance and Economics
Columbia Business School
Authored By
Jack D. Schwager
Publication Date
1996
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PANIC-PROOF INVESTING
Lessons in Profitable Investing from a Market Wizard
Featured in Jack Schwager’s bestselling The New MarketWizards, Tom
Basso is one of the most popular and most quotedprofessional traders in the
world. In a book rich with wit, wisdom, and a wealth of practical advice, Tom
Basso, a.k.a. Mr. Serenity, tells you how to center yourself for smart, balanced
investmentchoices. Taking aim at internal roadblocks to success, Tom
clearlyshows why the sine qua non of being a successful investor is toknow
thyself. Writing in a jargon-free, down-to-earth style, heprepares you for the
investment process with tips on how to stayfocused; how to avoid and cope
with common frustrations; and how toavoid psychological pitfalls that lead to
poor decisionmaking anddisappointing returns.
• Witty, familiar, easy-to-read, and peppered with livelycartoons and

illustrations.
• Packed with real-life case studies and telling parables inwhich you’ll
recognize your own and your friends’ experiences.
• Features a handy Panic-Proof Investor Checklist that sums upthe most
important points covered in the book.
Authored By
Thomas F. Basso
Publication Date
1994
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PORTFOLIO INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES IN MANAGED
FUTURES
You’ll find the latest insight and strategies for asset managers on three major
investment vehicle in this book. This three-volume e-book series from the
renowned David Darst details each of these three asset classes, including the
investment strategies associated with them, risks and advantages of each,
and the political and cultural particulars that investment advisors and asset
managers need to be aware of.
Authored By
David M. Darst
Publication Date
2013
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SIMPLE BUT NOT EASY

An Autobiographical and Biased Book about Investing
The theme of the book is that investment is simpler than non-professionals
think it is in that the rudiments can be expressed in ordinary English, and
picked up by anybody. It is not a science. But investment is also difficult.
People on the outside tend to think that anyone on the inside should be able
to do better than the market indices. This is not so. Picking the managers who
are likely to do better is a challenge.
Richard Oldfield begins with a candid confession of some of his worst

mistakes and what they have taught him. He discusses the different types of
investment, why fees matter, and the importance of measuring performance
properly. He also outlines what to look for, and what not to look for in an
investment manager, when to fire a manager, and how to be a successful
client.
NEW
Authored By
Richard Oldfield
Publication Date
2007
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STARTING OUT IN FUTURES

TRADING
One of the best-known futures traders explains how to trade for profit in
today’s global futures marketplace Look into the bookcase of any successful
futures trader, and odds are you’ll find a worn, well-used copy of Mark
Powers’s Starting Out In Futures Trading. In this new edition--the best-selling
book’s first update since 1993--Powers reflects on the many new forces that
are shaping the industry. From new rules and regulations to the emergence
of electronic trading and the Internet, Powers’s unquestioned knowledge and
experience cover all the key basics in the world of futures trading--and show
traders from novice to veteran how to profit in that world.
Authored By
Mark Powers
Publication Date
2001
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THE COMPLETE IDIOT’S GUIDE TO

OPTIONS AND FUTURES
Completely updated, this practical guide has the information investors need to
keep up in the complex, fast-paced, and highly profitable world of options and
futures, where everything is in play—from oil to diamonds, poultry to vaccines,
franchises to coffee.
• Provides cutting edge information on energy futures and options

• Tools for creating flexible strategies that can move with the times
• New information on the solid standbys like livestock, precious metals, and
equities
• Keyed to the new realities of the global economy, making this book vital for
investors at all levels
• Highly respected expert author
Authored By
Scott Barrie
Publication Date
2001
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THE FUTURES GAME

Who Wins? Who Loses? & Why?
Filled with knowledgeable trading strategies and insights, revealing charts on
today’s most interesting futures markets, and numerous respected trading
approaches that will allow you to craft a style based on your own strengths
and requirements, The Futures Game is likely to become the one resource
you refer to most often.
Authored By
Frank J. Jones & Richard J. Teweles
Publication Date
1989
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THE HANDBOOK OF MANAGED

FUTURES
Performance, Evaluation, and Analysis
In the quest for higher returns, institutional investors are investing billions of
dollars into managed futures and hedge funds, which offer more flexibility
and diversification than conventional funds. This completely updated
and expanded edition of the classic Managed Futures and Hedge Funds
includes the latest information on hedge funds, as well as new chapters on
performance benchmarks and selection criteria. Readers will find everything
needed to understand and benefit from these alternative investments,
including how-to: develop an institutional protfolio of managed futures and
hedge funds; maximize diversification and arbitrage potential; successfully
perform risk/return analyses.
Authored By
Carl Peters & Ben Warwick
Publication Date
1996
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WINNING IN THE FUTURES

MARKET
A Money-Making Guide to Trading Hedging and Speculating,
Revised Edition
This newest edition explores all aspects of the futures markets from “What
you need to know” to “What you must do to win”. Learn how to build a trading
plan, charting techniques, contrary opinion trading, hedging and Gann
methods and the proprietary LSS Day Trading system 3 day cycle methods.
Authored By
George Angell
Publication Date
1990
Availability
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STORIES OF
LEGENDARY
INVESTORS
Against the Gods ��223

Peter L. Bernstein
Billion Dollar Whale ��224
Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
Famous Financial Fiascos �� 225
John Train
Flash Boys�� 226
Michael Lewis
Gambling Wizards��227
Richard W. Munchki
Hedge Fund Market Wizards�� 228
Jack D. Schwager
I’m Still Standing �� 229
William Hunt Gross
Inside the House of Money�� 230
Steven Drobny
Inventing Money �� 231
Nicholas Dunbar
221
Market Wizards ��232
Jack D. Schwager
Money: Master the Game ��233
Tony Robbins
More Money Than God��234
Sebastian Mallaby
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator��235
Edwin Lefèvre
Richer, Wiser, Happier ��236
William Green
Stock Market Wizards ��237
Jack D. Schwager
The Big Short ��238
Michael Lewis
The Bond King��239
Mary Childs
The Greatest Trade Ever �� 240
Gregory Zuckerman
The Man Who Knew�� 241
Sebastian Mallaby
The Man Who Solved the Market��242
Gregory Zuckerman
The Outsiders ��243
William N. Thorndike
The Rule��244
Larry Hite
The Wizards of Wall Street ��245
John Brooks
Too Big to Fail �� 246
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Trader Vic��247
Victor Sperandeo
Trading Sardines��248
Linda Bradford Raschke
Trend Following Mindset �� 249
Michael Covel
Trillions �� 250
Robin Wigglesworth
Unknown Market Wizards�� 251
Jack D. Schwager
When Genius Failed �� 252
Roger Lowenstein
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AGAINST THE GODS

The Remarkable Story of Risk
With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime
market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study
of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernstein has written a
comprehensive history of man’s efforts to understand risk and probability,
beginning with early gamblers in ancient Greece, continuing through the 17th-
century French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat and up to modern chaos
theory. Along the way he demonstrates that understanding risk underlies
everything from game theory to bridge-building to winemaking.
Authored By
Peter L. Bernstein
Publication Date
1996
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BILLION DOLLAR WHALE

The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
An epic true-tale of hubris and greed from two Pulitzer-finalist Wall Street
Journal reporters, Billion Dollar Whale reveals how a young social climber
pulled off one of the biggest financial heists in history--right under the nose
of the global financial industry—exposing the shocking secret nexus of elite
wealth, banking, Hollywood, and politics.
The dust had yet to settle on the global financial crisis in 2009 when an
unlikely Wharton grad was setting in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and
magnitude—one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the
global financial system.
Billion Dollar Whale will become a classic, harrowing parable about the
financial world in the twenty-first century.
Authored By
Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
Publication Date
2018
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FAMOUS FINANCIAL FIASCOS

A classic study on different ways not to succeed. Everything from Mr.
Ponzi, Tulipomania, the Kuwait Stock Exchange Explosion, Bernie Cornfeld,
Ivan Krueger, and others. Shows the confusion of purpose, overgenerous
investments, mistakes in timing and many other ways where investors have
gone wrong. As Parkinson says, “It is better to learn from a book than to learn
in a bankruptcy court.
Authored By
John Train
Publication Date
1985
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FLASH BOYS
A Wall Street Revolt
In Michael Lewis’s game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street
iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit
of insiders. They band together—some of them walking away from seven-
figure salaries—to investigate, expose, and reform the insidious new ways that
Wall Street generates profits. If you have any contact with the market, even a
retirement account, this story is happening to you.
Authored By
Michael Lewis
Publication Date
2014
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GAMBLING WIZARDS
Conversations with the World’s Greatest Gamblers
Can you imagine betting a million dollars on a football game or winning seven
million on a single horse race? Can you even fathom what it would be like
to be the resident backgammon player at the Playboy Mansion or to win the
World Series of Poker…twice? How would you react if a gun-wielding casino
owner demanded back the money that you won playing blackjack in his
casino?
t’s all in a day’s work for the gamblers in this book. It isn’t luck. Collectively,
they’ve won hundreds of millions of dollars playing the games most people
consider unbeatable. Discover what it really takes to become a master
gambler.
Gambling Wizards delves deeply into the lives and minds of some of the most
successful professional gamblers of all time.
Authored By
Richard W. Munchki
Publication Date
2002
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HEDGE FUND MARKET WIZARDS

How Winning Traders Win
From bestselling author, investment expert, and Wall Street theoretician Jack
Schwager comes a behind-the-scenes look at the world of hedge funds, from
fifteen traders who’ve consistently beaten the markets. Exploring what makes
a great trader a great trader, “Hedge Fund Market Wizards” breaks new
ground, giving readers rare insight into the trading philosophy and successful
methods employed by some of the most profitable individuals in the hedge
fund business. Jack presents exclusive interviews with fifteen of the most
successful hedge fund traders and what they’ve learned over the course of
their careers including interviews with Jamie Mai, Joel Greenblatt, Michael
Platt, Ray Dalio, Colm O’Shea, Ed Thorp, and many more.
This book offers a candid assessment of each trader’s successes and

failures, the book shows readers what they can learn from each, and also
outlines forty essential lessons—from finding a trading method that fits an
investor’s personality to learning to appreciate the value of diversification--that
investment professionals everywhere can apply in their own careers.
Bringing together the wisdom of the true masters of the markets, “Hedge
Fund Market Wizards” is a collection of timeless insights into what it takes to
trade in the hedge fund world.
Authored By
Jack D. Schwager
Publication Date
2012
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I’M STILL STANDING

Bond King Bill Gross and the PIMCO Express
In this memoir, famed “Bond King” Bill Gross recounts his childhood in Ohio
and San Francisco; his experience counting cards in Las Vegas and its
influence on his investing techniques; the founding of – and his eventual
breakup with -- bond powerhouse PIMCO; retirement and his long-term
economic outlook.
Bill shares how PIMCO became the largest bond manager in the world and
describes the “secret sauce” that let to its incredible success. He expands
on his story as he wraps his career path and choices around pivot points in
his life. From professional gambler to Wall Street icon, Bill recounts how he
arrived where he is today and what he learned along the way.
NEW
Authored By
William Hunt Gross
Publication Date
2022
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INSIDE THE HOUSE OF MONEY

Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets
Inside the House of Money lifts the veil on the typically opaque world of hedge
funds, offering a rare glimpse at how today’s highest paid money managers
approach their craft. Author Steven Drobny demystifies how these star traders
make billions for wellheeled investors, evealing their theories, strategies and
approaches to markets. Drobny, cofounder of Drobny Global Advisors, an
international macroeconomic research and advisory firm, has tapped into his
network and beyond in order assemble this collection of thirteen interviews
with the industry’s best minds. Along the way, you’ll get an inside look at
firsthand trading experiences through some of the major world financial crises
of the last few decades. Whether Russian bonds, Pakistani stocks, Southeast
Asian currencies or stakes in African brewing companies, no market or
instrument is out of bounds for these elite global macro hedge fund managers.
Highly accessible and filled with in-depth expert opinion, Inside the House of
Money is a mustread for financial professionals and anyone else interested in
understanding the complexities at stake in world financial markets.
Authored By
Steven Drobny
Publication Date
2006
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INVENTING MONEY
The Story of Long-Term Capital Management and the Legends
Behind It
LTCM was the fund that was too big to fail, the brightest star in the financial
world. Built on genius, by legends of Wall Street and two Nobel laureates, it
spiralled to ever greater heights, commanding unimaginable wealth. When
it fell to earth in September 1998 it shook the world. This is the story of the
rise and fall of LTCM and the legends behind it. A brave and ambitious work,
Inventing Money was written by leading financial journalist Nicholas Dunbar.
Authored By
Nicholas Dunbar
Publication Date
1999
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MARKET WIZARDS
Interviews with Top Traders
What separates the world’s top traders from the vast majority of unsuccessful
investors? Jack Schwager sets out to answer tis question in his interviews
with superstar moneymakers including Bruce Kovner, Richard Dennis, Paul
Tudor Jones, Michel Steinhardt, Ed Seykota, Marty Schwartz, Tom Baldwin,
and more in “”Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders,”” now in
paperback and ebook.
This classic interview-style investment text from a financial expert is a

must-read for traders and professional financiers alike, as well as anyone
interested in gaining insight into how the world of finance really works.Filled
with anecdotes about market experiences, including the story of a trader
who after wiping out several times, turned $30,000 into $80 million and an
electrical engineer from MIT whose computerized trading has earned returns
of 250,000 percent over sixteen yearsIdentifies the factors that define a
successful traderNow availabe as in digital formats.
One of the most insightful, bestselling trading books of all time.
Authored By
Jack D. Schwager
Publication Date
1989
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MONEY: MASTER THE GAME

7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
Tony Robbins has coached and inspired more than 50 million people from
over 100 countries. More than 4 million people have attended his live events.
Oprah Winfrey calls him super-human. Now for the first time - in his first book
in two decades - he’s turned to the topic that vexes us all: How to secure
financial freedom for ourselves and our families.
Based on extensive research and one-on-one interviews with more than 50 of

the most legendary financial experts in the world - from Carl Icahn and Warren
Buffett, to Ray Dalio and Steve Forbes - Tony Robbins has created a simple
7-step blueprint that anyone can use for financial freedom.
Robbins has a brilliant way of using metaphor and story to illustrate even
the most complex financial concepts - making them simple and actionable.
With expert advice on our most important financial decisions, Robbins is an
advocate for the reader, dispelling the myths that often rob people of their
financial dreams.
Tony Robbins walks readers of every income level through the steps to
become financially free by creating a lifetime income plan. This book delivers
invaluable information and essential practices for getting your financial house
in order.
Authored By
Tony Robbins
Publication Date
2014
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MORE MONEY THAN GOD

Hedge Funds and the Making of the New Elite
Hedge fund moguls have become the “It Boys” of 21st century capitalism.
Julian Robertson staffed his hedge fund with college athletes half his age,
then he flew them to various retreats in the Rockies and raced them up the
mountains. Paul Tudor Jones posed for a magazine photograph next to a killer
shark and happily declared that a 1929-style crash would be “total rock-and-
roll” for him. Michael Steinhardt was capable of reducing underlings to sobs.
“All I want to do is kill myself”, one said. “Can I watch?” Steinhardt responded.
Finance professors have long argued that beating the market is impossible,
and yet drawing on insights from physics, economics, and psychology, these
titans have cracked the market’s mysteries and gone on to earn fortunes.
Their innovation has transformed the world, spawning new markets in exotic
financial instruments and rewriting the rules of capitalism.
More Money Than God is a window on tomorrow’s financial system. Hedge

funds have been left for dead after past financial panics: After the stock
market rout of the early 1970s, after the bond market bloodbath of 1994,
after the collapse of Long Term Capital Management in 1998, and yet again
after the dot-com crash in 2000. Each time, hedge funds have proved to
be survivors, and it would be wrong to bet against them now. The future of
finance lies in the history of hedge funds.
Authored By
Sebastian Mallaby
Publication Date
2010
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REMINISCENCES OF A STOCK
OPERATOR
How to Beat the Markets, Using the Most Dependable and
Consistent, yet Often Overlooked Investment Strategy
First published in 1923, “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator” is the most
widely read, highly recommended investment book ever. Generations of
readers have found that it has more to teach them about markets and people
than years of experience. This is a timeless tale that will enrich your life--and
your portfolio.
Authored By
Edwin Lefèvre
Publication Date
1923
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RICHER, WISER, HAPPIER

How the World’s Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life
In Richer, Wiser, Happier, William Green draws on interviews that he’s
conducted over twenty-five years with many of the world’s greatest investors.
As he discovered, their talents extend well beyond the financial realm.
The most successful investors are mavericks and iconoclasts who question
conventional wisdom and profit vastly from their ability to think more rationally,
rigorously, and objectively. They are master game players who consciously
maximize their odds of long-term success in markets and life, while also
minimizing any risk of catastrophe. They draw powerful insights from many
different fields, are remarkably intuitive about trends, practice fanatical
discipline, and have developed a high tolerance for pain.
As Green explains, the best investors can teach us not only how to become
rich, but how to improve the way we think, reach decisions, assess risk, avoid
costly errors, build resilience, and turn uncertainty to our advantage.
NEW
Authored By
William Green
Publication Date
2021
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STOCK MARKET WIZARDS

Interviews with America’s Top Stock Traders
The third in the bestselling Market Wizards series, this time focusing on the
barometer of the economy - the stock market.
It has been nearly a decade since the publication of the highly successful
The New Market Wizards. The interim has witnessed the most dynamic bull
market in US stock history, a collapse in commodity prices, dramatic failures
in some of the world’s leading hedge funds, the burst of the Internet bubble, a
fall into recession and subsequent rumblings of recovery. Who have been the
market wizards during this tumultuous financial period? How did some traders
manage to significantly outperform a stockmarket that during its heyday
moved virtually straight up?
This book will feature interviews with a variety of traders who achieved
phenomenal financial success during the glory days of the Internet boom. In
contrast with the first two Market Wizard books, which included traders from a
broad financial spectrum - stocks, bonds, currencies and futures - this volume
will focus on traders in the stockmarket.
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Jack D. Schwager
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THE BIG SHORT

Inside the Doomsday Machine
From the author of The Blind Side and Moneyball, The Big Short tells the
story of four outsiders in the world of high-finance who predict the credit and
housing bubble collapse before anyone else. The film adaptation by Adam
McKay (Anchorman I and II, The Other Guys) features Academy Award®
winners Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, Melissa Leo and Marisa Tomei; Academy
Award® nominees Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling.
When the crash of the U.S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall
of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken
place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t
shine and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to tread. Who understood the risk
inherent in the assumption of ever-rising real estate prices, a risk compounded
daily by the creation of those arcane, artificial securities loosely based on
piles of doubtful mortgages? In this fitting sequel to Liar’s Poker, Michael
Lewis answers that question in a narrative brimming with indignation and dark
humor.
Authored By
Michael Lewis
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2010
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THE BOND KING

How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All
Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a
gambler. In 1966, a fresh college grad, he went to Vegas armed with his net
worth ($200) and a knack for counting cards. $10,000 and countless casino
bans later, he was hooked: so he enrolled in business school.
The Bond King is the story of how that whiz kid made American finance his
casino. Over the course of decades, Bill Gross turned the sleepy bond market
into a destabilized game of high risk, high reward; founded PIMCO, one of
today’s most powerful, secretive, and cutthroat investment firms; helped to
reshape our financial system in the aftermath of the Great Recession―to his
own advantage; and gained legions of admirers, and enemies, along the way.
Like every American antihero, his ambition would also be his undoing.
To understand the winners and losers of today’s money game, journalist Mary
Childs argues, is to understand the bond market―and to understand the bond
market is to understand the Bond King.
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THE GREATEST TRADE EVER

The Behind-The-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall
Street and Made Financial History
In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others
suspected--that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages
were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall, but he knew very little about
real estate or how to wager against housing. Paulson was convinced this was
his chance to make his mark. He just wasn’t sure how to do it. Paulson and a
handful of renegade investors began to bet heavily against risky mortgages
and precarious financial companies. Timing is everything, though. Initially,
Paulson and the others lost tens of millions of dollars as real estate and stocks
continued to soar. Rather than back down, however, Paulson redoubled his
bets, putting his hedge fund and his reputation on the line.
However, by the end of 2007, John Paulson had pulled off the greatest trade
in financial history, earning more than $15 billion for his firm—a figure that
dwarfed George Soros’s billion-dollar currency trade in 1992. Some of the
underdog investors who attempted the daring trade also reaped fortunes.
But others who got the timing wrong met devastating failure, discovering
that being early and right wasn’t nearly enough. The Greatest Trade Ever is a
superbly written, fast-paced, behind-the-scenes narrative of how a contrarian
foresaw an escalating financial crisis--that outwitted Chuck Prince, Stanley
O’Neal, Richard Fuld, and Wall Street’s titans--to make financial history.
Authored By
Gregory Zuckerman
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THE MAN WHO KNEW

The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
To understand Greenspan’s story is to see the economic and political
landscape of the last 30 years--and the presidency from Reagan to George
W. Bush--in a whole new light. Greenspan spent a lifetime grappling with a
momentous shift: the transformation of finance from the fixed and regulated
system of the post-war era to the free-for-all of the past quarter century.
Greenspan served multiple administrations and was a master of explaining the

economic weather to leadership. He started off as a libertarian and disciple of
Ayn Rand in his youth who once called the Fed’s creation a historic mistake.
However, Mallaby shows how Greenspan reinvented himself as a pragmatist
once in power.
The great crash of 2008 may have tarnished his reputation but the backstory
paints a picture of which the greatest lesson may be that economic
statesmanship, like political statesmanship, is the art of the possible.
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Sebastian Mallaby
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THE MAN WHO SOLVED THE

MARKET
How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Jim Simons is a great money maker. Since 1988, Renaissance’s signature
Medallion fund has generated average annual returns of 66 percent. The firm
has earned profits of more than $100 billion; Simons is worth twenty-three
billion dollars. Zuckerman, a veteran Wall Street Journal investigative reporter,
tells the gripping story of how a world-class mathematician and former code
breaker mastered the market. Simons pioneered a data-driven, algorithmic
approach that’s sweeping the world.
As Renaissance became a market force, its executives began influencing the

world beyond finance. Simons became a major figure in scientific research,
education, and liberal politics. Senior executive Robert Mercer is more
responsible than anyone else for the Trump presidency, placing Steve Bannon
in the campaign and funding Trump’s victorious 2016 effort. Mercer also
impacted the campaign behind Brexit.
The Man Who Solved the Market is a portrait of a modern-day Midas who
remade markets in his own image, but failed to anticipate how his success
would impact his firm and his country. It’s also a story of what Simons’s
revolution means for the rest of us.
Authored By
Gregory Zuckerman
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2019
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THE OUTSIDERS
Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational
Blueprint for Success
Will Thorndike brings to bear the analytical wisdom of a successful career
in investing, closely evaluating the performance of companies and their
leaders. You will meet eight individualistic CEOs whose firms’ average
returns outperformed the S&P 500 by a factor of twenty—in other words,
an investment of $10,000 with each of these CEOs, on average, would
have been worth over $1.5 million twenty-five years later. You may not know
all their names, but you will recognize their companies: General Cinema,
Ralston Purina, The Washington Post Company, Berkshire Hathaway, General
Dynamics, Capital Cities Broadcasting, TCI, and Teledyne. In The Outsiders,
you’ll learn the traits and methods—striking for their consistency and relentless
rationality—that helped these unique leaders achieve such exceptional
performance.
Humble, unassuming, and often frugal, these “outsiders” shunned Wall Street
and the press, and shied away from the hottest new management trends.
Instead, they shared specific traits that put them and the companies they led
on winning trajectories: a lasersharp focus on per share value as opposed
to earnings or sales growth; an exceptional talent for allocating capital and
human resources; and the belief that cash flow, not reported earnings,
determines a company’s long-term value.
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William N. Thorndike
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THE RULE
How I Beat the Odds in the Markets and in Life and
How You Can Too
In The Rule, legendary trader and hedge fund pioneer Larry Hite recounts his
workingclass upbringing in Brooklyn as a dyslexic, partially blind kid who was
anything but a model student--and how he went on to found and run Mint
Investment Management Company, one of the most profitable and largest
quantitative hedge funds in the world.
Hite’s wild success is based on his deep understanding that markets are
flawed--just like people. Through his early-life struggles and failures, Hite
came to know himself well--his fears, his frustrations, his self-doubt, and his
tolerance for all of the above. This motivational book reveals that by accepting
the facts of his life and of himself, he was able to accept markets as they are.
And that was the key to his success.
In these pages, you’ll walk in the footsteps of an investing legend, who imparts
smart, practical trading lessons throughout the journey. Making a successful
living in trading isn’t about beating the markets. It’s about meeting markets
where they are, embracing the fact of risk, knowing yourself, and playing it
strictly by the numbers. The Rule shows that investing decisions are not only
bets or gambles, but investments in time, energy, and attention.
Authored By
Larry Hite
Publication Date
2019
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THE WIZARDS OF WALL STREET

Business Adventures, Once in Golconda, and the Go-Go Years
For decades, author and New Yorker staff writer John Brooks was renowned
for his keen intelligence, in-depth knowledge, and uniquely engaging
approach to the dramas and personalities of the financial and business worlds.
With a style of prose that “turns potentially eye-glazing topics into rollicking
narratives,” Brooks proved that even the bottom line can be moving, hilarious,
and infuriating all at once (Slate). Here are three of his most fascinating works,
which still resonate today.
Business Adventures: This collection of entertaining short features is a brilliant

example of Brooks’s talents, covering subjects such as the Edsel disaster, the
rise of Xerox, and how corruption may be an irreparable part of the corporate
world.
“Brooks’s deeper insights about business are just as relevant today as they
were back then.”
— Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal
“Brooks is truly willing to give up his own views to get inside the mind of all his
subjects.”
— National Review
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John Brooks
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TOO BIG TO FAIL

How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial
System from Crisis — and Themselves
Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-
by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great
Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office
at Lehman Brothers to secret meetings in South Korea, and the corridors of
Washington, Too Big to Fail is the definitive story of the most powerful men
and women in finance and politics grappling with success and failure, ego and
greed, and, ultimately, the fate of the world’s economy.
“We’ve got to get some foam down on the runway!” a sleepless Timothy
Geithner, the then-president of the Federal Reserve of New York, would tell
Henry M. Paulson, the Treasury secretary, about the catastrophic crash the
world’s financial system would experience.
Through unprecedented access to the players involved, Too Big to Fail

re-creates all the drama and turmoil, revealing neverdisclosed details and
elucidating how decisions made on Wall Street over the past decade sowed
the seeds of the debacle. This true story is not just a look at banks that were
“too big to fail,” it is a real-life thriller with a cast of bold-faced names who
themselves thought they were too big to fail.
Authored By
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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TRADER VIC
Methods of a Wall Street Master
“Trader Vic — Methods of a Wall Street Master Investment strategies from the
man Barron’s calls The Ultimate Wall Street Pro Victor Sperandeo is gifted with
one of the finest minds I know. No wonder he’s compiled such an amazing
record of success as a money manager. Every investor can benefit from the
wisdom he offers in his new book. Don’t miss it!”
— Paul Tudor Jones Tudor Investment Corporation.
“Here’s a simple review in three steps: 1. Buy this book! 2. Read this book! 3.
See step 2. For those who can’t take a hint, Victor Sperandeo with T. Sullivan
Brown has written a gem, a book of value for everyone in the markets,
whether egghead, novice or seasoned speculator.”
— John Sweeney Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities.
“I have followed Victor Sperandeo’s advice for ten years, and the results have
been outstanding. This book is a must for any serious investor.”
— James J. Hayes, Vice President, Investments Prudential Securities Inc.
“This book gave me a wealth of new insights into trading. Whether you’re a
short-term trader or a long-term investor, you will improve your performance
by following Sperandeo’s precepts.”
— Louis I. Margolis Managing Director, Salomon Brothers, Inc.
Authored By
Victor Sperandeo
Publication Date
1993
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TRADING SARDINES
Lessons in the Markets from a Lifelong Trader
Trading Sardines celebrates grit and resilience in the financial markets. It is
a hilarious, honest, and poignant account of the evolution of a professional
trader over nearly four decades. From the raucous trading floors of the early
eighties to the days of giant server racks thirty years later, the reader takes a
chronological trip through the markets, trading strategies, and unimaginable
events, watching how one woman responds with unblinking honesty.
Linda Raschke shares a lifetime of market lessons while highlighting the

tension between luck, risk, and passion. Along the way, she shows that
perseverance can overcome the most inconceivable challenges, both in life
and in trading. Her stories, documented with charts and photos, will keep you
captivated and prove that humor may just be the key ingredient for survival.
You won’t hear these types of tales anywhere else–this is the REAL world of
trading.
This book will motivate every trader, no matter the level of proficiency and
experience. Linda’s success is testimony that you don’t have to be perfect,
you just have to stay in the game.
Authored By
Linda Bradford Raschke
Publication Date
2018
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TREND FOLLOWING MINDSET

The Genius of Legendary Trader Tom Basso
Trend Following Mindset brings to life the timeless conversations between
Tom Basso and Michael Covel originally featured on Michael’s renowned
Trend Following podcast. In these profound and enlightening exchanges, Tom
shares with Michael his deep wisdom on trading, business, life, and the how
and why of his mindset.
Tom Basso, dubbed Mr. Serenity by Jack Schwager, is one of the most
experienced and knowledgeable trend-following traders in the world today―a
trading legend who lives life to the fullest.
Tom’s most important trend following research papers are presented together
for the first time, delivering a treasure trove of trading insights.
Michael also pulls from Tom’s on:
• How to get started in trading

• What trend following is, and how and why it works so well
• Constructing your trading system
• Position sizing and account management
• The work-life balance of a trader
• The transition from independent trader to professional money manager
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Michael Covel
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TRILLIONS
How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund
and Changed Finance Forever
Fifty years ago, the Manhattan Project of money management was quietly
assembled in the financial industry’s backwaters, unified by the heretical idea
that even many of the world’s finest investors couldn’t beat the market in the
long run.
The motley crew of nerds—including economist wunderkind Gene Fama,

humiliated industry executive Jack Bogle, bull-headed and computer-
obsessive John McQuown, and avuncular former WWII submariner Nate
Most—succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Passive investing now
accounts for more than $20 trillion, equal to the entire gross domestic product
of the US, and is today a force reshaping markets, finance and even capitalism
itself in myriad subtle but pivotal ways.
In Trillions, Financial Times journalist Robin Wigglesworth unveils the vivid

secret history of an invention Wall Street wishes was never created, bringing
to life the characters behind its birth, growth, and evolution into a world-
conquering phenomenon. This engrossing narrative is essential reading for
anyone who wants to understand modern finance—and one of the most
pressing financial uncertainties of our time.
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Robin Wigglesworth
Publication Date
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UNKNOWN MARKET WIZARDS

The Best Traders You’ve Never Heard Of
The Market Wizards are back! Unknown Market Wizards continues in
the three-decade tradition of the hugely popular Market Wizards series,
interviewing exceptionally successful traders to learn how they achieved
their extraordinary performance results. The twist here is that the featured
traders are individuals trading their own accounts, unknown in the investment
world. These traders have achieved performance records that rival the best
professional managers. Some of the stories include:
• A trader who achieved an average annual return of 337% over a 13-year

period.
• A trader who made tens of millions using a unique approach that employed
neither fundamental nor technical analysis.
• A former advertising executive who used classical chart analysis to achieve
a 58% average annual return over a 27-year trading span.
• A promising junior tennis player in the UK who abandoned his quest for a
professional sporting career for trading and generated a nine-year track
record with an average annual return just under 300%.
Author and trading expert Jack D. Schwager is our guide. His trademark
interview style encourages the Wizards to reveal the details of their training,
experience, tactics, strategies, and their best and worst trades.
Authored By
Jack D. Schwager
Publication Date
2020
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WHEN GENIUS FAILED

The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management
In this business classic—now with a new Afterword in which the author draws
parallels to the recent financial crisis—Roger Lowenstein captures the gripping
roller-coaster ride of Long-Term Capital Management. Drawing on confidential
internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein
explains not just how the fund made and lost its money but also how the
personalities of Long-Term’s partners, the arrogance of their mathematical
certainties, and the culture of Wall Street itself contributed to both their rise
and their fall.
When it was founded in 1993, Long-Term was hailed as the most impressive
hedge fund in history. But after four years in which the firm dazzled Wall Street
as a $100 billion moneymaking juggernaut, it suddenly suffered catastrophic
losses that jeopardized not only the biggest banks on Wall Street but the
stability of the financial system itself. The dramatic story of Long-Term’s fall is
now a chilling harbinger of the crisis that would strike all of Wall Street, from
Lehman Brothers to AIG, a decade later. In his new Afterword, Lowenstein
shows that LTCM’s implosion should be seen not as a one-off drama but as a
template for market meltdowns in an age of instability—and as a wake up call
that Wall Street and government alike tragically ignored.
Authored By
Roger Lowenstein
Publication Date
2000
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THE HISTORIC
PERSPECTIVE
A Colossal Failure of Common Sense�� 256

Lawrence G. McDonald & Patrick Robinson
A First-Class Catastrophe��257
Diana B. Henriques
A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States �� 258
Alan S. Blinder
Boom and Bust �� 259
William Quinn & John Turner
Boomerang�� 260
Michael Lewis
Capital Account �� 261
Eward Chancellor
CAPITAL RETURNS: INVESTING THROUGH THE CAPITAL CYCLE �� 262
Eward Chancellor
Coming Apart ��263
Charles Murray
Dark Pools�� 264
Scott Patterson
Den of Thieves�� 265
James B. Stewart
253
Devil Take the Hindmost �� 266
Eward Chancellor
Dying of Money��267
Jens O. Parsson
The New Empire of Debt �� 268
Addison Wiggin, Bill Bonner
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds�� 269
Charles Mackay
Fiasco ��270
Frank Partnoy
Flash Crash��271
Liam Vaughan
Freezing Order ��272
Bill Browder
From Tulips to Bitcoins ��273
Torsten Dennin
Generations ��274
Neil Howe & William Strauss
Irrational Exuberance ��275
Robert J. Shiller
Keeping At It ��276
Paul Volcker
Lords of Finance �� 277
Liaquat Ahamed
Merchants of Debt ��278
George Anders
MONEY AND EMPIRE ��279
Perry Mehrling
Monkey Business�� 280
John Rolfe, Peter Troob
Narrative Economics�� 281
Robert Schiller
People, Power, and Profits �� 282
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Princes of the Yen��283
Richard Werner
The Asian Financial Crisis 1995–98��284
Russell Napier
The Buy Side�� 285
Turney Duff
The Dao of Capital�� 286
Mark Spitznagel, Ron Paul
254
The Devil’s Derivatives ��287
Nicholas Dunbar
The Economists’ Hour �� 288
Binyamin Appelbaum
The End of Wall Street �� 289
Roger Lowenstein
The Fountainhead�� 290
Ayn Rand
The Fourth Turning �� 291
William Strauss, Neil Howe
The Go-Go Years �� 292
John Brooks
The Great Hangover ��293
Vanity Fair, Graydon Carter
The Lords of Easy Money �� 294
Christopher Leonard
The Match King �� 295
Frank Partnoy
The New Map�� 296
Daniel Yergin
The Physics of Wall Street��297
James Owen Weatherall
The Predator’s Ball �� 298
Connie Bruck
The Price of Time�� 299
Edward Chancellor
The Prize �� 300
Daniel Yergin
The Quest �� 301
Daniel Yergin
The Rise of Carry �� 302
Kevin Coldiron, Tim Lee, Jamie Lee
Trillion Dollar Triage��303
Nick Timiraos
Triumph of the Optimists ��304
Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, Mike Staunton
When Money Dies�� 305
Adam Fergusson
When Washington Shut Down Wall Street �� 306
William L. Silber
Where Are the Customers Yachts?��307
Fred Schwed Jr.
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A COLOSSAL FAILURE OF
COMMON SENSE
The Incredible Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered
until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail,
with aftershocks that rocked the global economy?
In A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Larry McDonald, a Wall Street insider,

reveals, the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has ever
done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonald’s
Horatio Alger-like rise from a Massachusetts “gateway to nowhere” housing
project to the New York headquarters of Lehman Brothers, home of one of the
world’s toughest trading floors.
We get a close-up view of the participants in the Lehman collapse, especially

those who saw it coming with a helpless, angry certainty. We meet the
Brahmins at the top, whose reckless, pedal-to-the-floor addiction to growth
finally demolished the nation’s oldest investment bank.
The full significance of the dissolution of Lehman Brothers remains to be

measured.
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Lawrence G. McDonald & Patrick Robinson
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2009
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A FIRST-CLASS CATASTROPHE
The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History
Monday, October 19, 1987, was by far the worst day in Wall Street history. The
market fell 22.6 percent – almost twice as bad as the worst day of 1929 –
equal to a one-day loss of nearly 5,000 points today.
Black Monday was more than seven years in the making and threatened
nearly every U.S. financial institution. Drawing on superlative archival research
and dozens of original interviews Diana B. Henriques weaves a tale of missed
opportunities, market delusions, and destructive actions that stretched
from the “silver crisis” of 1980 to turf battles in Washington, a poisonous
rivalry between the New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile
Exchange, and the almost-fatal success of two California professors whose
idea for reducing market risk spun terribly out of control. As the story hurtles
forward, the players struggle to forestall a looming market meltdown and
unexpected heroes step in to avert total disaster.
For thirty years, investors, regulators, and bankers have failed to heed
the lessons of 1987, even as the same patterns have resurfaced, most
spectacularly in the financial crisis of 2008. A First-Class Catastrophe offers a
new way of looking not only at the past, but at our financial future as well.
Authored By
Diana B. Henriques
Publication Date
2017
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A MONETARY AND FISCAL

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
1961–2021
In this book, Alan Blinder, one of the world’s most influential economists and
one of the field’s best writers, draws on his deep firsthand experience to
provide an authoritative account of sixty years of monetary and fiscal policy in
the United States. Spanning twelve presidents, from John F. Kennedy to Joe
Biden, and eight Federal Reserve chairs, from William McChesney Martin to
Jerome Powell, this is an insider’s story of macroeconomic policy that hasn’t
been told before—one that is a pleasure to read, and as interesting as it is
important.
Focusing on the most significant developments and long-term changes,

Blinder traces the highs and lows of monetary and fiscal policy, which have
by turns cooperated and clashed through many recessions and several
long booms over the past six decades. From the fiscal policy of Kennedy’s
New Frontier to Biden’s responses to the pandemic, the book takes readers
through the stagflation of the 1970s, the conquest of inflation under Jimmy
Carter and Paul Volcker, the rise of Reaganomics, and the bubbles of the
2000s before bringing the story up through recent events—including the
financial crisis, the Great Recession, and monetary policy during COVID-19.
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Alan S. Blinder
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2022
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BOOM AND BUST

A Global History of Financial Bubbles
Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms
followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more
frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D.
Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles,
visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in
the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the
1980s, Silicon Valley in the 1990s and Shanghai in the 2000s. As they do
so, they help us understand why bubbles happen, and why some have
catastrophic economic, social and political consequences whilst others have
actually benefited society. They reveal that bubbles start when investors and
speculators react to new technology or political initiatives, showing that our
ability to predict future bubbles will ultimately come down to being able to
predict these sparks.
Authored By
William Quinn & John Turner
Publication Date
2020
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BOOMERANG
Travels in the New Third World
The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002
and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation,
offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they
could not normally afford to indulge.
Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The

Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow
as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be
even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish.
Michael Lewis’s investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so

brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable
complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye
on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited
with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and
greediest of debtor nations.
Authored By
Michael Lewis
Publication Date
2011
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CAPITAL ACCOUNT
A Money Manager’s Reports on a Turbulent Decade 1993-2002
Capital Account relates the story of the world’s greatest investment bubble
from the perspective of professional investors. The book, comprised of
selected reports from Marathon Asset Management, a successful global
investment firm, explains how shareholder value - the notion that companies
should be run in the interests of their shareholders - became corrupted in this
era of frenzied finance.
By the end of 2002 this cynical game had ended in investment disaster-
the world’s stock markets having produced more than $15 trillion of losses
since their peak. Yet to a large extent, the outcome was predictable to those
investors who had retained a disciplined approach to investment analysis
throughout the bull market.
This book introduces the ‘capital cycle’ approach to investment - an approach

that brings together ideas from the fields of behavioral finance, economic
theory and business analysis. Capital cycle analysis - based on the apparently
simple insight that investor euphoria leads to excessive investment in the
real world and subsequent poor returns for shareholders - enabled Marathon
to identify at an early stage the inevitable collapse of the technology and
telecoms bubble.
Authored By
Eward Chancellor
Publication Date
2004
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CAPITAL RETURNS: INVESTING

THROUGH THE CAPITAL CYCLE
A Money Manager’s Reports, 2002-15
We live in an age of serial asset bubbles and spectacular busts. Economists,
policymakers, central bankers and most people in the financial world have
been blindsided by these busts, while investors have lost trillions. Marathon
Asset Management, a London-based investment firm managing over $50
billion of assets, has developed a relatively simple method for identifying and
potentially avoiding them: follow the money, or rather the trail of investment.
This capital cycle strategy encourages investors to eschew the simple ‘growth’
and ‘value’ dichotomy and identify firms that can deliver superior returns either
because capital has been taken out of an industry, or because the business
has strong barriers to entry (what Warren Buffett refers to as a ‘moat’).
Capital Returns is a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practical

implementation of the capital cycle approach to investment. The book brings
together 60 of the most insightful reports written between 2002 and 2014 by
Marathon portfolio managers and provides key insights into the capital cycle
strategy.
Authored By
Eward Chancellor
Publication Date
2016
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COMING APART
The State of White America
In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes
that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on
whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not
break along lines of race or ethnicity.
Drawing on five decades of statistics and research, Coming Apart

demonstrates that a new upper class and a new lower class have diverged so
far in core behaviors and values that they barely recognize their underlying
American kinship—divergence that has nothing to do with income inequality
and that has grown during good economic times and bad.
The top and bottom of white America increasingly live in different cultures,
Murray argues, with the powerful upper class living in enclaves surrounded by
their own kind, ignorant about life in mainstream America, and the lower class
suffering from erosions of family and community life that strike at the heart of
the pursuit of happiness. That divergence puts the success of the American
project at risk.
The evidence in Coming Apart is about white America. Its message is about all
of America.
Authored By
Charles Murray
Publication Date
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DARK POOLS
The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock
Market
A news-breaking account of the global stock market’s subterranean battles,
Dark Pools portrays the rise of the “”bots””- artificially intelligent systems that
execute trades in milliseconds and use the cover of darkness to out-maneuver
the humans who’ve created them.
In the beginning was Josh Levine, an idealistic programming genius who

dreamed of wresting control of the market from the big exchanges that,
again and again, gave the giant institutions an advantage over the little guy.
Levine created a computerized trading hub named Island where small traders
swapped stocks, and over time his invention morphed into a global electronic
stock market that sent trillions in capital through a vast jungle of fiber-optic
cables.
By then, the market that Levine had sought to fix had turned upside down,
birthing secretive exchanges called dark pools and a new species of trading
machines that could think, and that seemed, ominously, to be slipping the
control of their human masters.Dark Pools is the fascinating story of how
global markets have been hijacked by trading robots--many so self-directed
that humans can’t predict what they’ll do next.
Authored By
Scott Patterson
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DEN OF THIEVES
A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the
insidertrading candal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it
off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice.
Pulitzer Prize–winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of
the eighties’ biggest names on Wall Street—Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky,
Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine—created the greatest insider-trading ring
in financial history and almost walked away with billions, until a team of
downtrodden detectives triumphed over some of America’s most expensive
lawyers to bring this powerful quartet to justice.
Based on secret grand jury transcripts, interviews, and actual trading records,
and containing explosive new revelations about Michael Milken and Ivan
Boesky written especially for this paperback edition, Den of Thieves weaves
all the facts into an unforgettable narrative—a portrait of human nature, big
business, and crime of unparalleled proportions.
Authored By
James B. Stewart
Publication Date
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DEVIL TAKE THE HINDMOST

A History of Financial Speculation
In Devil Take the Hindmost, Edward Chancellor traces the origins of the
speculative spirit back to ancient Rome and chronicles its revival in the
modern world: from the tulip scandal of 1630s Holland, to “stockjobbing” in
London’s Exchange Alley, to the infamous South Sea Bubble of 1720, which
prompted Sir Isaac Newton to comment, “I can calculate the motion of
heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”
Here are brokers underwriting risks that included highway robbery and the
“assurance of female chastity”; credit notes and lottery tickets circulating
as money; wise and unwise investors from Alexander Pope and Benjamin
Disraeli to Ivan Boesky and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
From the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties, from the nineteenth century
railway mania to the crash of 1929, from junk bonds and the Japanese bubble
economy to the day-traders of the Information Era, Devil Take the Hindmost
tells a fascinating story of human dreams and folly through the ages.
Authored By
Eward Chancellor
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1999
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DYING OF MONEY
Lessons of the Great German & American Inflations
In this book, Jens O. Parsson performs the neat trick of transforming the dry
economic subject of inflation into a white-knuckles kind of blood-chiller. He
begins with a freewheeling account of the spectacular inflation that all but
destroyed Germany in 1923, taking it apart to find out both what made it tick
and what made it finally end. He goes on to look at the American inflation that
was steadily gaining force after 1962. In terms clear and fascinating enough
for any layman, but with technical validity enough for any economist, he
applies the lessons gleaned from the German inflation to find that too much
about the American inflation was the same, lacking only the inexorable further
deterioration that time would bring. The book concludes by charting out all
the possible future prognoses for the American inflation, none easy but some
much less catastrophic than others.
This book packs a wallop. It is not for the timid, and it spares no tender
sensibilities. The conclusions it reaches are shocking and are bound to
provoke endless dispute. If they proved to approximate even remotely the
correct analysis of the American inflation, hardly any American citizen could
escape being the prey of inflation and no one could afford not to know where
the inflation was taking him. In the economic daily lives of everyone, nothing
will be the same after this book as it was before.
Authored By
Jens O. Parsson
Publication Date
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THE NEW EMPIRE OF DEBT

The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis
In Empire of Debt, maverick financial writers Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin
provide you with the first in-depth look at how the American character has
shifted to accommodate its new imperial role; how we have abandoned the
private virtues of personal liberty, economic freedom, and fiscal restraint; and
how the government has gained control of public life and the economy.
Authored By
Addison Wiggin, Bill Bonner
Publication Date
2006
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EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR
DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF
CROWDS
First published in 1841, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of
Crowds is often cited as the best book ever written about market psychology.
This Harriman House edition includes Charles Mackay’s account of the three
infamous financial manias - John Law’s Mississipi Scheme, the South Sea
Bubble, and Tulipomania.Between the three of them, these historic episodes
confirm that greed and fear have always been the driving forces of financial
markets, and, furthermore, that being sensible and clever is no defence
against the mesmeric allure of a popular craze with the wind behind it.
In writing the history of the great financial manias, Charles Mackay proved
himself a master chronicler of social as well as financial history. With his vice-
filled cast of characters, he produced a record that is at once a riveting thriller
and absorbing historical document. A century and a half later, it is as vibrant
and lurid as the day it was written.
When the next stock market bubble comes along, as it surely will, you are
advised to recall the plight of some of the unfortunates on these pages.
Authored By
Charles Mackay
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FIASCO
Blood in the Water on Wall Street
FIASCO is the shocking story of one man’s education in the jungles of Wall
Street. As a young derivatives salesman at Morgan Stanley, Frank Partnoy
learned to buy and sell billions of dollars worth of securities that were so
complex many traders themselves didn’t understand them. In his behind-
the-scenes look at the trading floor and the offices of one of the world’s
top investment firms, Partnoy recounts the macho attitudes and fiercely
competitive ploys of his office mates. And he takes us to the annual drunken
skeet-shooting competition, FIASCO, where he and his colleagues sharpen
the killer instincts they are encouraged to use against their competitiors, their
clients, and each other. FIASCO is the first book to take on the derivatves
trading industry, the most highly charged and risky sector of the stock market.
More importantly, it is a blistering indictment of the largely unregulated market
in derivatives and serves as a warning to unwary investors about real fiascos,
which have cost billions of dollars.
Authored By
Frank Partnoy
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1999
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FLASH CRASH
A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt, and the Most Mysterious
Market Crash in History
On May 6, 2010, financial markets around the world tumbled simultaneously
and without warning. In the span of five minutes, a trillion dollars of valuation
was lost. The Flash Crash, as it became known, represented the fastest drop
in market history. When share values rebounded less than half an hour later,
experts around the globe were left perplexed. What had they just witnessed?
Navinder Singh Sarao hardly seemed like a man who would shake the world’s
financial markets to their core. Raised in a working-class neighborhood in
West London, Nav was a preternaturally gifted trader who played the markets
like a computer game. By the age of thirty, he had left behind London’s
“”trading arcades,”” working instead out of his childhood home. For years the
money poured in. But when lightning-fast electronic traders infiltrated markets
and started eating into his profits, Nav built a system of his own to fight back. It
worked--until 2015, when the FBI arrived at his door.
A real-life financial thriller, Flash Crash uncovers the remarkable, behind-the-

scenes narrative of a mystifying market crash, a globe-spanning investigation
into international fraud, and the man at the center of them both.
Authored By
Liam Vaughan
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FREEZING ORDER
A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving
Vladimir Putin’s Wrath
When Bill Browder’s young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to
death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life’s mission to go after his killers
and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover
who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed
over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia
through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the Americas,
they were shocked to discover that Vladimir Putin himself was a beneficiary of
the crime.
As law enforcement agencies began freezing the money, Putin retaliated. He

and his cronies set up honey traps, hired process servers to chase Browder
through cities, murdered more of his Russian allies, and enlisted some of the
top lawyers and politicians in America to bring him down. Putin will stop at
nothing to protect his money.
At once a financial caper, an international adventure, and a passionate plea for

justice, Freezing Order is a stirring morality tale about how one man can take
on one of the most ruthless villains in the world—and win.
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Authored By
Bill Browder
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FROM TULIPS TO BITCOINS

A History of Fortunes Made and Lost in Commodity Markets
Four Centuries of Speculation and Commodity Markets. From Tulips to
Bitcoins is a fascinating look at big events in commodity and crypto markets
from the Dutch Tulip Mania to Bitcoins today. It covers the Silver Thursday and
the Hunt Brothers, the doom of Amaranth Advisors and Brian Hunter, Copper
and the Congo, Gold, Rare Earths, Energy Metals, and Bitcoins, which rose
from below 1,000 USD to above 20,000 USD within a year. These markets are
on a crossroad of investing mega trends like demographics, climate change,
electrification, and digitalization. By studying and learning from our past, we
can make better decisions about the future. As Benjamin Franklin said, “An
investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
Authored By
Torsten Dennin
Publication Date
2019
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GENERATIONS
The History Of America’s Future, 1584 - 2069
Hailed by national leaders as politically diverse as former Vice President
Al Gore and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Generations has been
heralded by reviewers as a brilliant, if somewhat unsettling, reassessment of
where America is heading.
William Strauss and Neil Howe posit the history of America as a succession
of generational biographies, beginning in 1584 and encompassing everyone
through the children of today. Their bold theory is that each generation
belongs to one of four types, and that these types repeat sequentially in a
fixed pattern. The vision of Generations allows us to plot a recurring cycle in
American history—a cycle of spiritual awakenings and secular crises—from the
founding colonists through the present day and well into this millenium.
Generations is at once a refreshing historical narrative and a thrilling intuitive

leap that reorders not only our history books but also our expectations for the
twenty-first century.
Authored By
Neil Howe & William Strauss
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1991
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IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE
As Robert Shiller’s new 2009 preface to his prescient classic on behavioral
economics and market volatility asserts, the irrational exuberance of the stock
and housing markets “has been ended by an economic crisis of a magnitude
not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.” As we all, ordinary
Americans and professional investors alike, crawl from the wreckage of our
heedless bubble economy, the shrewd insights and sober warnings, and hard
facts that Shiller marshals in this book are more invaluable than ever.
The original and bestselling 2000 edition of Irrational Exuberance evoked

Alan Greenspan’s infamous 1996 use of that phrase to explain the alternately
soaring and declining stock market. It predicted the collapse of the tech stock
bubble through an analysis of the structural, cultural, and psychological factors
behind levels of price growth not reflected in any other sector of the economy.
In the second edition (2005), Shiller folded real estate into his analysis of
market volatility, marshalling evidence that housing prices were dangerously
inflated as well, a bubble that could soon burst, leading to a “string of
bankruptcies” and a “worldwide recession.” That indeed came to pass, with
consequences that the 2009 preface to this edition deals with.
Irrational Exuberance is more than ever a cogent, chilling, and astonishingly

far-seeing analytical work that no one with any money in any market anywhere
can afford not to read–and heed.
Authored By
Robert J. Shiller
Publication Date
2000
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KEEPING AT IT
Quest for Sound Money and Good Government
The extraordinary life story of the former chairman of the Federal Reserve,
whose absolute integrity provides the inspiration we need as our
constitutional system and political tradition are being tested to the breaking
point.
As chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987), Paul Volcker slayed the

inflation dragon that was consuming the American economy and restored the
world’s faith in central bankers. That extraordinary feat was just one pivotal
episode in a decades-long career serving six presidents.
Told with wit, humor, and down-to-earth erudition, the narrative of Volcker’s
career illuminates the changes that have taken place in American life,
government, and the economy since World War II. He vibrantly illustrates
the crises he managed alongside the world’s leading politicians, central
bankers, and financiers. Yet he first found his model for competent and ethical
governance in his father, the town manager of Teaneck, NJ, who instilled
Volcker’s dedication to absolute integrity and his “”three verities”” of stable
prices, sound finance, and good government.
Authored By
Paul Volcker
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2018
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LORDS OF FINANCE
The Bankers Who Broke the World
It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted
from a confluence of events beyond any one person’s or government’s
control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions taken by a
small number of central bankers that were the primary cause of the economic
meltdown, the effects of which set the stage for World War II and reverberated
for decades.
Montagu Norman, Émile Moreau, Hjalmar Schacht, Benjamin Strong—After the

First World War, these central bankers attempted to reconstruct the world of
international finance. They were united by a common fear—that the greatest
threat to capitalism was inflation— and by a common vision that the solution
was to turn back the clock and return the world to the gold standard. For a
brief period in the mid-1920s they appeared to have succeeded. The world’s
currencies were stabilized and capital began flowing freely across the globe.
But beneath it all, cracks started to appear in the financial system. The gold
standard that all had believed would provide an umbrella of stability proved to
be a straitjacketnthat culminated in the Great Depression.
Lords of Finance is a reminder of the huge impact the decisions of central

bankers can have, of their fallibility, and the terrible consequences that can
result when they are wrong.
Authored By
Liaquat Ahamed
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2009
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MERCHANTS OF DEBT
KKR and the Mortgaging of American Business
For more than a decade, Henry Kravis and George Roberts have been
archetypes, first of Wall Street’s boom years and then of its excesses.
Their story and that of their firm--the biggest, most successful, and most
controversial participant in the age of leverage--illuminates an entire era of
financial maneuvering and speculative mania. Kravis and Roberts wrote their
way into the history books by concocting one giant takeover after another.
Their technique: the leveraged buyout.
Their firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., dominated the Wall Street scene in
the late 1980s, acquiring one Fortune 500 company after another, including
Safeway, Duracell, Motel 6, and RJR Nabisco. Merchants of Debt draws
on more than 200 interviews, including recurring access to the central
figures and their KKR associates, as well as court documents and private
correspondence to couch giant financial issues in human terms.
Here is a gripping saga that takes readers behind closed boardroom doors
to show how starstruck young bankers, ruthless deal-makers, and nervous
CEOs changed one another’s lives--and the whole American economy--over a
fifteen-year span.
Authored By
George Anders
Publication Date
1992
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MONEY AND EMPIRE

Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System
Charles Kindleberger ranks as one of the twentieth century’s best known and
most influential international economists. This book traces the evolution of his
thinking in the context of a ‘key-currency’ approach to the rise of the dollar
system, here revealed as the indispensable framework for global economic
development since World War II. Unlike most of his colleagues, Kindleberger
was deeply interested in history, and his economics brimmed with real people
and institutional details. His research at the New York Fed and BIS during the
Great Depression, his wartime intelligence work, and his role in administering
the Marshall Plan gave him deep insight into how the international financial
system really operated. A biography of both the dollar and a man, this book is
also the story of the development of ideas about how money works. It throws
revealing light on the underlying economic forces and political obstacles
shaping our globalized world.
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Authored By
Perry Mehrling
Publication Date
2022
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MONKEY BUSINESS
Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle
Animal House meets Liar’s Poker in this hysterically funny, often unbelievable,
and absolutely, positively true account of life at DLJ, one of the hottest
investment banks on Wall Street.
Like most other young business school graduates, John Rolfe and Peter Troob
thought that life in a major investment banking firm would make their wildest
dreams come true -- it would be fast-paced, intellectually challenging, and,
best of all, lucrative.
They were in for a surprise. For behind the walls of Wall Street’s firms
lies a stratum of stunted, overworked, abused, and in the end, very well-
compensated, but very frustrated men and women. Monkey Business takes
readers behind the scenes at Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette (DLJ), one
of Wall Street’s hottest firms of the 90s, from the interview process to the
courting of clients to bonus time. It’s a glimpse of a side of the business the
financial periodicals don’t talk about.
Monkey Business provides readers with a first-class education in the real life
of an investment banker. But best of all, it is an extremely funny read about
two young men who, on their way towards achieving the American dream,
quickly realized they were selling their souls to get there.
Authored By
John Rolfe, Peter Troob
Publication Date
2000
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NARRATIVE ECONOMICS
How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
In this groundbreaking book, author Robert Shiller offers a new way to think
about the economy and economic change. Using a rich array of historical
examples and data, Shiller argues that studying popular stories that affect
individual and collective economic behavior—what he calls narrative
economics—has the potential to vastly improve our ability to predict, and
prepare for, the damage of financial crises, and other major economic events.
Spread through the public in the form of popular stories, ideas can go viral and
move markets—whether it’s the belief that tech stocks can only go up, that
housing prices never fall, or that some firms are too big to fail. Whether true
or false, stories like these—transmitted by word of mouth, by the news media,
and social media—drive the economy by driving our decisions about how and
where to invest, how much to spend and save, and more. The stories people
tell—about economic confidence or panic, housing booms, the American
dream, or Bitcoin—affect economic outcomes. Narrative Economics explains
how we can begin to take these stories seriously.
Authored By
Robert Schiller
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2019
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PEOPLE, POWER, AND PROFITS

Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
We all have the sense that the American economy tilts toward big business.
A few corporations have come to dominate entire sectors of the economy,
contributing to skyrocketing inequality and slow growth. This is how the
financial industry has managed to write its own regulations, tech companies
have accumulated reams of personal data with little oversight, and our
government has negotiated trade deals that fail to represent the best interests
of workers.
Stiglitz identifies the true sources of wealth and increases in standards of

living, based on learning, advances in science and technology, and the rule
of law. He shows that the assault on the judiciary, universities, and the media
undermines the very institutions that have long been the foundation of
America’s economic might and its democracy.
We are far from powerless. In fact, the economic solutions are often quite
clear. We need to exploit the benefits of markets while taming their excesses,
making sure that markets work for us—the U.S. citizens—and not the other
way around. Stiglitz shows how a middle-class life can once again be
attainable by all.
Authored By
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publication Date
2019
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PRINCES OF THE YEN

Japan’s Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy
This eye-opening book offers a disturbing new look at Japan’s post-war
economy and the key factors that shaped it. It gives special emphasis to the
1980s and 1990s when Japan’s economy experienced vast swings in activity.
According to the author, the most recent upheaval in the Japanese economy
is the result of the policies of a central bank less concerned with stimulating
the economy that with its own turf battles and its ideological agenda to
change Japan’s economic structure. The book combines new historical
research with an in-depth behind-the-scenes account of the bureaucratic
competition between Japan’s most important institutions: the Ministry of
Finance and the Bank of Japan. Drawing on new economic data and first-hand
eyewitness accounts, it reveals little known monetary policy tools at the core
of Japan’s business cycle, identifies the key figures behind Japan’s economy,
and discusses their agenda. The book also highlights the implications for the
rest of the world, and raises important questions about the concentration of
power within central banks.
Authored By
Richard Werner
Publication Date
2003
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THE ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS

1995–98
Birth of the Age of Debt
In the space of a few months, across Asia, a miracle became a nightmare. This
was the Asian Financial Crisis of 1995–98.
In this economic crisis hundreds of people died in rioting, political strong men
were removed and hundreds of billions of dollars were lost by investors.
This crisis saw the US dollar value of some Asian stock markets decline by
ninety percent. Why did almost no one see it coming?
The Asian Financial Crisis 1995–98 charts Russell Napier’s personal journey
during that crisis as he wrote daily for institutional investors about an
increasingly uncertain future. Relying on contemporaneous commentary, it
charts the mistakes and successes of investors in the battle for investment
survival in Asia from 1995–98.
This is not just a guide for investors navigating financial markets, but also an
explanation of how this crisis created the foundations of an age of debt that
has changed the modern world.
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Authored By
Russell Napier
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2021
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THE BUY SIDE

A Wall Street Trader’s Tale of Spectacular Excess
The Buy Side portrays an after-hours Wall Street culture where drugs and sex
are rampant and billions in trading commissions flow to those who dangle the
most enticements. A remarkable writing debut, The Buy Side shows as no
book ever has the rewards—and dizzying temptations—of making a living on
the Street.
In the 1990s, after failing to land a job as a journalist, he secured a trainee

position at Morgan Stanley and got his first feel for the pecking order that
exists in the trading pits. At his next positions at Galleon Group, Argus Partners
and J.L. Berkowitz, Turney climbed to greater heights—and plummeted to
even lower depths. By day, he solidified his reputation one of the Street’s most
powerful healthcare traders, and by night, he blazed a path through the city’s
nightclubs, showing off his social genius and voraciously inhaling any drug
that would fill the void he felt inside.
A mesmerizingly immersive journey through Wall Street’s first millennial

decade, and a poignant self portrait by a young man who surely would have
destroyed himself were it not for his decision to walk away from a seven-figure
annual income, The Buy Side is one of the best coming-of-age-on-the-Street
books ever written.
Authored By
Turney Duff
Publication Date
2013
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THE DAO OF CAPITAL

Austrian Investing in a Distorted World
In The Dao of Capital, hedge fund manager and tail-hedging pioneer Mark
Spitznagel, takes us on a gripping, circuitous journey from the Chicago trading
pits, over the coniferous boreal forests and canonical strategists from Warring
States China to Napoleonic Europe to burgeoning industrial America, to the
great economic thinkers of late 19th century Austria. We arrive at his central
investment methodology of Austrian Investing, where victory comes not
from waging the immediate decisive battle, but rather from the roundabout
approach of seeking the intermediate positional advantage. The monumental
challenge is in seeing time differently, in a whole new intertemporal
dimension, one that is so contrary to our wiring.
Spitznagel is the first to condense the theories of Ludwig von Mises and
his Austrian School of economics into a cohesive and—as Spitznagel has
shown—highly effective investment methodology. From identifying the
monetary distortions and nonrandomness of stock market routs (Spitznagel’s
bread and butter) to scorned highlyproductive assets, in Ron Paul’s words
from the foreword, Spitznagel “brings Austrian economics from the ivory tower
to the investment portfolio.” The Dao of Capital provides a rare and accessible
look through the lens of one of today’s great investors to discover a profound
harmony with the market process.
Authored By
Mark Spitznagel, Ron Paul
Publication Date
2013
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THE DEVIL’S DERIVATIVES

The Untold Story of the Slick Traders and Hapless Regulators
Who Almost Blew Up Wall Street… and Are Ready to Do It
From an award-winning journalist who has been covering the industry for
more than a decade, The Devil’s Derivatives charts the untold story of modern
financial innovation—how investment banks invented new financial products,
how investors across the world were wooed into buying them, how regulators
were seduced by the political rewards of easy credit, and how speculators
made a killing from the near-meltdown of the financial system.
Author Nicholas Dunbar demystifies the revolution that briefly gave finance
the same intellectual respectability as theoretical physics. He explains how
bankers worldwide created a secret trillion-dollar machine that delivered
cheap mortgages to the masses and riches beyond dreams to the financial
innovators.
Fundamental to this saga is how “the people who hated to lose” were
persuaded to accept risk by “the people who loved to win.” Provocative and
intriguing, The Devil’s Derivatives sheds much-needed light on the forces that
fueled the most brutal economic downturn since the Great Depression.
Authored By
Nicholas Dunbar
Publication Date
2011
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THE ECONOMISTS’ HOUR

How the False Prophets of Free Markets Fractured Our Society
The Economists’ Hour is the biography of a revolution: The story of how
economists who believed in the power and the glory of free markets
transformed the business of government, the conduct of business and,
as a result, the patterns of everyday life. They reshaped the government’s
approach to regulation, assigning a value to human life to determine which
rules are worthwhile. Economists even convinced President Nixon to end
military conscription.
The United States was the epicenter of the intellectual ferment, but the
embrace of markets was a global phenomenon, seizing the imagination of
politicians in countries including the United Kingdom, Chile and New Zealand.
This book is also a reckoning. The revolution failed to deliver on its central
promise of increased prosperity. In the United States, growth has slowed in
every successive decade since the 1960s. And the cost of the failure was
steep. Policymakers traded well-paid jobs for low-cost electronics; the loss
of work weakened the fabric of society and of democracy. Soaring inequality
extends far beyond incomes.
Authored By
Binyamin Appelbaum
Publication Date
2019
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THE END OF WALL STREET

The End of Wall Street is a full account of America’s biggest financial collapse
since the Great Depression. Drawing on 180 interviews, including sit-downs
with top government officials and Wall Street CEOs, Lowenstein tells the full
story of the end of Wall Street as we knew it.
The book is rife with historical lessons and bursting with fast-paced action.
Lowenstein introduces his story with precisely etched profiles of Angelo
Mozilo, the Johnny Appleseed of subprime mortgages who spreads toxic
loans across the landscape like wild crabapples, and moves to a damning
explication of how rating agencies helped gift wrap faulty loans in the guise of
AAA paper and a takedown of the academic formulas that-once again- proved
the ruin of investors and banks. Lowenstein excels with a series of searing
profiles of some of the most well know and high profile banking CEOs and
government officials.
We come to understand the majesty of Lowenstein’s theme of liquidity and

capital, which explains the origins of the crisis and that positions the collapse
of 2008 as the greatest ever of Wall Street’s unlearned lessons. The End of
Wall Street will be essential reading as we work to identify the lessons of the
market failure and start to rebuild.
Authored By
Roger Lowenstein
Publication Date
2010
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THE FOUNTAINHEAD
The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn
Rand’s groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide
acclaim.
This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard

Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon,
the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married
his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged
society against a great creator. As fresh today as it was then, Rand’s
provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction—
that man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress...
“A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the
capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly...This is the only novel of ideas
written by an American woman that I can recall.”
— The New York Times
Authored By
Ayn Rand
Publication Date
1943
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THE FOURTH TURNING

What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next
Rendezvous with Destiny
William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world--and
your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the
past, explains the present, and reimagines the future.
The authors look back 500 years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern
history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human
life, each composed of four eras--or turnings--that last about twenty years
and that always arrive in the same order. In The Fourth Turning, the authors
illustrate these cycles using a brilliant analysis of the post-World War II period.
First comes a High, a period of confident expansion as a new order takes

root after the old has been swept away. Next comes an Awakening, a time
of spiritual exploration and rebellion against the now-established order. Then
comes an Unraveling, an increasingly troubled era in which individualism
triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis--the Fourth Turning-
-when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. Together,
the four turnings comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation,
entropy, and rebirth. The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions America’s next
rendezvous with destiny.
Authored By
William Strauss, Neil Howe
Publication Date
1996
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THE GO-GO YEARS

The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street’s Bullish 60s
The Go-Go Years is the harrowing and humorous story of the growth stocks
of the 1960s and how their meteoric rise caused amultitude of small investors
to thrive until the devastating market crashes in the 1970s. It was a time when
greed drove the market and fast money was being made and lost as the “go-
go” stocks surged and plunged.
Included are the stories of such high-profile personalities as H. Ross Perot who
lost $450 million in one day, Saul Steinberg’s attempt to take over Chemical
Bank, and the fall of America’s “Last Gatsby,” Eddie Gilbert.
Authored By
John Brooks
Publication Date
1973
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THE GREAT HANGOVER

21 Tales of the New Recession
A collection of stories from Vanity Fair magazine about the current financial
crisis by some of the country’s best business journalists, including Michael
Lewis (Moneyball, Liar’s Poker), Bryan Burrough (Barbarians at the Gate), and
Mark Bowden (Black Hawk Down), edited by Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter,
and with an introduction by Cullen Murphy (Are We Rome?).
Authored By
Vanity Fair, Graydon Carter
Publication Date
2010
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THE LORDS OF EASY MONEY

How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
The gap between the rich and poor has grown dramatically, stock prices are
trading far above what’s justified by actual corporate profits, corporate debt
in America is at an all-time high, and this debt is being traded by big banks on
Wall Street, leaving them vulnerable—just as they were during the mortgage
boom. Middle-class wages have barely budged in a decade, and consumers
are buried under credit card debt, car loan debt, and student debt.
The Lords of Easy Money tells the shocking, riveting tale of how quantitative
easing is imperiling the American economy through the story of the one man
who tried to warn us. This will be the first inside story of how we really got
here—and why we face a frightening future.
NEW
Authored By
Christopher Leonard
Publication Date
2022
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THE MATCH KING

Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall
Street Scandals
At the height of the roaring ’20s, Swedish émigré Ivar Kreuger made a fortune
raising money in America and loaning it to Europe in exchange for matchstick
monopolies. His enterprise was a rare success story throughout the Great
Depression.Yet after Kreuger’s suicide in 1932, the true nature of his empire
emerged. Driven by success to adopt ever-more perilous practices, Kreuger
had turned to shell companies in tax havens, fudged accounting figures,
off-balance-sheet accounting, even forgery. He created a raft of innovative
financial products— many of them precursors to instruments wreaking havoc
in today’s markets. When his Wall Street empire collapsed, millions went
bankrupt.
Frank Partnoy, a frequent commentator on financial disaster for the Financial

Times, New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s “60 Minutes,” recasts the life story of
a remarkable yet forgotten genius in ways that force us to re-think our ideas
about the wisdom of crowds, the invisible hand, and the free and unfettered
market.
Authored By
Frank Partnoy
Publication Date
2009
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THE NEW MAP

Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
The world is being shaken by the collision of energy, climate change, and
the clashing power of nations in a time of global crisis. Almost overnight, the
United States has become the world’s number one energy powerhouse. Yet
concern about energy’s role in climate change is challenging our economy
and way of life, accelerating a second energy revolution in the search for a
low carbon future. All of this has been made starker and more urgent by the
coronavirus pandemic and the economic dark age that it has wrought.
Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping are converging both on energy and on
challenging American leadership, as China projects its power and influence
in all directions. The South China Sea, claimed by China and the world’s most
critical trade route, could become the arena where the United States and
China directly collide. The map of the Middle East, which was laid down after
World War I, is being challenged by
revolutionaries and extremists.
Daniel Yergin takes the reader on an utterly riveting and timely journey
across the world’s new map. He illuminates the great energy and geopolitical
questions in an era of rising political turbulence and points to the profound
challenges that lie ahead.
Authored By
Daniel Yergin
Publication Date
2020
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THE PHYSICS OF WALL STREET

A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable
After the economic meltdown of 2008, Warren Buffett famously warned,
“beware of geeks bearing formulas.” But as James Weatherall demonstrates,
not all geeks are created equal. Taking us from fin-de-siècle Paris to Rat Pack-
era Las Vegas, from wartime government labs to Yippie communes on the
Pacific coast, Weatherall shows how physicists successfully brought their
science to bear on some of the thorniest problems in economics, from options
pricing to bubbles.
The crisis was partly a failure of mathematical modeling. But even more, it was
a failure of some very sophisticated financial institutions to think like physicists.
Models—whether in science or finance—have limitations; they break down
under certain conditions. And in 2008, sophisticated models fell into the
hands of people who didn’t understand their purpose, and didn’t care. It was a
catastrophic misuse of science.
The solution is to make our models better. Weatherall reveals the people on
the cusp of a new era in finance. We see a geophysicist use a model designed
for earthquakes to predict a massive stock market crash. And we see how
quantum theory might soon be used to create a far more accurate Consumer
Price Index. The Physics of Wall Street is riveting history that will change how
we think about our economic future.
Authored By
James Owen Weatherall
Publication Date
2013
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THE PREDATOR’S BALL

The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk
Bond Raiders
During the 1980s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert was the
Billionaire Junk Bond King. He invented such things as “the highly confident
letter” (I’m highly confident that I can raise the money you need to buy
company X) and “the blind pool” (Here’s a billion dollars: let us help you buy a
company), and he financed the biggest corporate raiders--men like Carl Icahn
and Ronald Perelman.
And then, on September 7, 1988, things changed. The Securities and

Exchange Commission charged Milken and Drexel Burnham Lambert with
insider trading and stock fraud. Waiting in the wings was the US District
Attorney, who wanted to file criminal and racketeering charges. What
motivated Milken in his drive for power and money? Did Drexel Burnham
Lambert condone the breaking of laws? The Predators’ Ball dramatically
captures American business history in the making, uncovering the philosophy
of greed that has dominated Wall Street in the 1980s.
Authored By
Connie Bruck
Publication Date
1988
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THE PRICE OF TIME

The Real Story of Interest
In the beginning was the loan, and the loan carried interest. For at least five
millennia, people have been borrowing and lending at interest. in the ancient
world, usury was generally viewed as exploitative, a path to debt bondage and
slavery. As capitalism became established from the late Middle Ages onwards,
denunciations of interest were tempered because interest was a necessary
reward for lenders to part with their capital. And interest performs many other
vital functions: it encourages people to save; enables them to place a value
on precious assets, such as houses and all manner of financial securities; and
allows us to price risk. All financial activities take place across time. Interest
is often described as the “price of money,” but it is better called the “price of
time:” time is scarce, time has value, interest is the time value of money.
Over the last two decades, interest rates have sunk lower than ever. Easy
money after the 2007 financial crisis in has produced several issues, including
the appearance of multiple asset price bubbles, a reduction in productivity
growth, discouraging savings and exacerbating inequality, and forcing yield
starved investors to take on excessive risk. The financial world finds itself
caught between a rock and a hard place, and Edward Chancellor is here to
tell us why. In this enriching volume, Chancellor explores the history of interest
and its essential function in determining how capital is allocated and priced.
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Edward Chancellor
Publication Date
2022
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THE PRIZE
The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil — and the struggle for wealth
and power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world
economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men
and nations.
The Prize is as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil industry
itself. The canvas of history is enormous -- from the drilling of the first well in
Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and
Operation Desert Storm.
Authored By
Daniel Yergin
Publication Date
1990
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THE QUEST
Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic
change. It is a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has
been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them. From
the jammed streets of Beijing to the shores of the Caspian Sea, from the
conflicts in the Mideast to Capitol Hill and Silicon Valley, Yergin takes us into
the decisions that are shaping our future. He tells the inside stories of the oil
market, the race to control the resources of the former Soviet empire, and the
massive mergers that transformed the landscape of world oil.
Yergin also reveals the tumultuous history of nuclear and coal, electricity,
and the “shale gale” of natural gas, and how each fits into the larger
marketplace. He brings climate change into unique perspective by offering an
unprecedented history of how the field of climate study went from the concern
of a handful of nineteenth-century scientists preoccupied with a new Ice Age
into one of the most significant issues of our times.
The Quest presents an extraordinary range of characters and dramatic

stories that illustrate the principles that will shape a robust and flexible energy
security system for the decades to come. Energy is humbling in its scope, but
our future requires that we deeply understand this global quest that is truly
reshaping our world.
Authored By
Daniel Yergin
Publication Date
2011
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THE RISE OF CARRY

The Dangerous Consequences of Volatility Suppression and the
New Financial Order of Decaying Growth and Recurring Crisis
The Rise of Carry explains how carry trading has virtually shaped the global
economic picture; one of decaying economic growth, recurring crises, wealth
disparity, and (in too many places) social and political upheaval.
The authors explain how carry trades work—particularly in the currency and
stock markets and provides a compelling case for how carry trades have
come to dominate the entire global business cycle.
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Authored By
Kevin Coldiron, Tim Lee, Jamie Lee
Publication Date
2020
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TRILLION DOLLAR TRIAGE

How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a
Pandemic---And Prevented Economic Disaster
By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on
record. Unemployment low. Stock markets soared to new highs, until COVID
struck—pushing the economy into a coma. America’s workplaces shuttered.
Many of the nation’s small and large businesses faced ruin. Over 22 million
American jobs were lost. The extreme uncertainty led to some of the largest
daily drops ever in the stock market.
Nick Timiraos draws on extensive interviews to detail the tense meetings, late
night phone calls, and crucial video conferences behind the largest, swiftest
U.S. economic policy response since World War II. Trillion Dollar Triage goes
inside the FED, one of the country’s most important and least understood
institutions, to chronicle how its plainspoken chairman, Jay Powell, unleashed
an unprecedented monetary barrage to keep the economy alive. With the
bleeding stemmed, the Fed faced a new challenge: How to nurture a recovery
without unleashing an inflation-fueling, bubble-blowing money bomb?
Trillion Dollar Triage is the definitive, gripping history of a creative and

unprecedented battle to shield the American economy from the twin threats
of a public health disaster and economic crisis. Economic theory and policy
will never be the same.
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Authored By
Nick Timiraos
Publication Date
2022
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TRIUMPH OF THE OPTIMISTS

101 Years of Global Investment Returns
Investors have too often extrapolated from recent experience. In the 1950s,
who but the most rampant optimist would have dreamt that over the next
fifty years the real return on equities would be 9% per year? Yet this is what
happened in the U.S. stock market. The optimists triumphed. The authors
present a comprehensive and consistent analysis of investment returns for
equities, bonds, bills, currencies and inflation, spanning 16 countries, from the
end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st. This is achieved in a clear
and simple way, with over 130 color diagrams that make comparison easy.
Crucially, the authors analyze total returns, including reinvested income. They
show that some historical indexes overstate long-term performance because
they are contaminated by survivorship bias and that long-term stock returns
are in most countries seriously overestimated, due to a focus on periods that
with hindsight are known to have been successful.
The book provides the first comprehensive evidence on long-term equity risk
premium. The authors reveal whether the United States and United Kingdom
have had unusually high stock market returns compared to other countries.
Triumph of the Optimists is required for investment professionals, financial

economists, and investors.
Authored By
Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, Mike Staunton
Publication Date
2002
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WHEN MONEY DIES

The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and
perinflation in Weimar Germany
When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nation’s
currency depreciates beyond recovery. In 1923, with its currency effectively
worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to
4,200,000,000,000 marks), the German republic was all but reduced to
a barter economy. Expensive cigars, artworks, and jewels were routinely
exchanged for staples such as bread; a cinema ticket could be bought for a
lump of coal; and a bottle of paraffin for a silk shirt. People watched helplessly
as their life savings disappeared and their loved ones starved. Germany’s
finances descended into chaos, with severe social unrest in its wake.
Money may no longer be physically printed and distributed in the voluminous

quantities of 1923. However, “quantitative easing,” that modern euphemism
for surreptitious deficit financing in an electronic era, can no less become an
assault on monetary discipline. Whatever the reason for a country’s deficit
necessity or profligacy, unwillingness to tax or blindness to expenditure it
is beguiling to suppose that if the day of reckoning is postponed economic
recovery will come in time to prevent higher unemployment or deeper
recession. What if it does not? Germany in 1923 provides a vivid, compelling,
sobering moral tale.
Authored By
Adam Fergusson
Publication Date
1975
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WHEN WASHINGTON SHUT DOWN

WALL STREET
The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America’s
Monetary Supremacy
When Washington Shut Down Wall Street unfolds like a mystery story. It traces
Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo’s triumph over a monetary crisis at
the outbreak of World War I that threatened the United States with financial
disaster. The biggest gold outflow in a generation imperiled America’s ability
to repay its debts abroad. Fear that the United States would abandon the gold
standard sent the dollar plummeting on world markets. Without a central bank
in the summer of 1914, the United States resembled a headless financial giant.
William McAdoo stepped shut the New York Stock Exchange for more than
four months to prevent Europeans from selling their American securities
and demanding gold in return. He smothered the country with emergency
currency to prevent a replay of the bank runs that swept America in 1907. And
he launched the United States as a world monetary power by commiting to
the gold standard. His actions provide a blueprint for crisis control that merits
attention today. McAdoo’s recipe emphasizes an exit strategy that allows
policymakers to throttle a crisis while minimizing collateral damage. When
Washington Shut Down Wall Street recreates the drama of America’s battle
for financial credibility. McAdoo’s accomplishments place him alongside Paul
Volcker and Alan Greenspan as great American financial leaders.
Authored By
William L. Silber
Publication Date
2007
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WHERE ARE THE CUSTOMERS

YACHTS?
Or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street
Humorous and entertaining, this book exposes the folly and hypocrisy of Wall
Street. The title refers to a story about a visitor to New York who admired the
yachts of the bankers and brokers. Naively, he asked where all the customers’
yachts were? Of course, none of the customers could afford yachts, even
though they dutifully followed the advice of their bankers and brokers. Full
of wise contrarian advice and offering a true look at the world of investing, in
which brokers get rich while their customers go broke, this book continues to
open the eyes of investors to the reality of Wall Street.
Authored By
Fred Schwed Jr.
Publication Date
1940
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TREND
FOLLOWING
Following the Trend �� 310

Andreas Clenow
How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market �� 311
Nicolas Darvas
How To Master Managed Futures�� 312
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen & Katy Kaminski
Mastering Uncertainty in Commodities Trading �� 313
Alex Krainer
Stocks on the Move �� 314
Andreas Clenow
The Complete Turtle Trader �� 315
Michael W. Covel
The Little Book of Trading �� 316
Michael W. Covel
The Many Flavors of Trend Following ��317
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen & Hari Krishnan
The Universal Principles of Successful Trading�� 318
Brent Penfold
308
The Universal Tactics of Successful Trend Trading �� 319
Brent Penfold
Trading Evolved �� 320
Andreas Clenow
Trend Commandments �� 321
Michael W. Covel
Trend Following ��322
Michael W. Covel
Trend Following ��323
Michael W. Covel
Trend Following Analytics ��324
Michael W. Covel
Trend Following Bible ��325
Alex Krainer
Trend Following with Managed Futures��326
Alex Greyserman & Kathryn Kaminski
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FOLLOWING THE TREND

Diversified Managed Futures Trading
There is a group of hedge funds and professional traders which have been
consistently outperforming traditional investment strategies for the past 30
odd years. They have shown remarkable performance and in the great bear
market of 2008 they had record gains. These traders are highly secretive
about their proprietary trading algorithms and often employ top PhDs in their
research teams. Yet, it is possible to replicate their trading performance with
relatively simplistic models. These traders are trend following cross asset
futures managers, also known as CTAs.
Following the Trend explains why most hopefuls fail by focusing on the wrong
things, such as buy and sell rules, and teaches the truly important parts of
trend following. Trading everything from the Nasdaq index and T-bills to
currency crosses, platinum and live hogs, there are large gains to be made
regardless of the state of the economy or stock markets. By analysing year
by year trend following performance and attribution the reader will be able to
build a deep understanding of what it is like to trade futures in large scale and
where the real problems and opportunities lay. This book provides insights
into the strategies behind the booming trend following futures industry from
the perspective of a market participant, and complete trading rules and
instructions for how to replicate the performance of successful hedge funds.
Authored By
Andreas Clenow
Publication Date
2012
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HOW I MADE $2,000,000 IN THE

STOCK MARKET
Hungarian by birth, Nicolas Darvas trained as an economist at the University of
Budapest. Reluctant to remain in Hungary until either the Nazis or the Soviets
took over, he fled at the age of 23 with a forged exit visa and fifty pounds
sterling to stave off hunger in Istanbul, Turkey. During his off hours as a dancer,
he read some 200 books on the market and the great speculators, spending
as much as eight hours a day studying. Darvas ploughed his money into a
couple of stocks that had been hitting their 52-week high. He was utterly
surprised that the stocks continued to rise and subsequently sold them to
make a large profit. His main source of stock selection was Barron’s Magazine.
At the age of 39, after accumulating his fortune, Darvas documented his
techniques in the book, How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market. The
book describes his unique “Box System”, which he used to buy and sell
stocks. Darvas’ book remains a classic stock market text to this day.
Authored By
Nicolas Darvas
Publication Date
1960
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HOW TO MASTER MANAGED

FUTURES
Even if You Have Never Traded Before!
Katy Kaminsky is the co-author of what is considered the “Bible” of Managed
Futures: Trend Following with Managed Futures. Niels Kaastrup-Larsen teams
up with Katy Kaminsky to combine their 50+ years of combined experience
into creating this short but very comprehensive guide on Managed Futures
that an investor of any level can pick up and read. There’s no fluff or filler—just
battle-tested lessons that are priceless and timeless.
The book also includes what we have learnt from Katy’s experience of writing
the “bible” when it comes to trend following books, and Niels’s unique insights
from having interviewed dozens of the world’s greatest investors on the Top
Traders Unplugged podcast.
You can use many of the same principles in this book to invest in bonds,
stocks, ETFs and other liquid investments. Both authors use these principles
to build safer and better performing portfolios for investors who never want
to experience the losses they suffered during the Tech Bubble and Housing
Bubble crisis again, and increase the overall returns of investor portfolios,
whilst lowering their risk. Check it out, I think you will enjoy reading it.
Authored By
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen & Katy Kaminski
Publication Date
2018
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MASTERING UNCERTAINTY IN
COMMODITIES TRADING
Generating sustainable profits in forex commodities and
financial markets through trend following
This book is a comprehensive guide for investors and firms on how they can
use trend following techniques to profit sustainably from trends in financial,
currency and commodity markets.
At its core this book is a generous narrative of personal discovery. Woven into
the narrative are quotes from famous investors like Warren Buffet, George
Soros, Paul Singer or Victor Niederhoffer and also uses words of Baruch
Spinoza, Thomas Aquinas, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein.
This book is not only valuable to someone embarking on a career in finance

but it’s a thrilling read for a layperson as well.
When Krainer quotes Aeschylus, “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning
to sail my ship,” he is embracing the narrative of his career that he has
generously shared with the reader in this book.
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Authored By
Alex Krainer
Publication Date
2015
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STOCKS ON THE MOVE

Beating the Market with Hedge Fund Momentum Strategies
Hedge fund manager Andreas F. Clenow takes you behind the scenes
to show you why mutual funds consistently fail and how anyone can beat
the mutual funds. Momentum investing has been one of very few ways of
consistently beating the markets.
The stock markets are widely misunderstood. Buying and selling stocks
seems so simple. Oversimplifications like that can end up costing you.
In the long run, the major stock indexes show a performance of five to six
percent per year. For that return, you will have to bear occasional losses of
over half your capital and be forced to wait many years to recover your money.
Yes, in the long run stocks do go up. But the story isn’t that simple.
Stocks on the Move outlines a rational way to invest in the markets for the
long term. It will walk you through the problems of the stock markets and how
to address them. It will explain how to achieve twice the return of the stock
markets at considerably lower risk. All rules and all details will be explained in
this book, allowing anyone to replicate the strategies and research.
Authored By
Andreas Clenow
Publication Date
2015
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THE COMPLETE TURTLE TRADER

How 23 Novice Investors Became Overnight Millionaires
Michael W. Covel, author of “Trend Following” and managing editor of
TurtleTrader.com, tells the riveting story of the Turtles, their selection, their
training, how they made (and lost) astounding fortunes, and certainly not least,
the tools readers will need to start trading like Turtles themselves.
Richard Dennis, ‘the Prince of the Pits’, a man who’d already made a fortune
on the Street, was convinced that great trading wasn’t a gift from God, but
something that could be taught to anyone. So one day he made a bet with
his partner, and ran a classified ad in the “”Wall Street Journal”” looking for
trainees. His trainees - who became known as the ‘Turtles’ - included an actor,
a security guard, two professional blackjack players, a pianist, a fantasy game
designer, and others. After two weeks of training, he set them loose, with a $1
million bankroll each to invest as they chose, and the right to keep a share of
their trading gains for themselves, as long they adhered to the Turtle system.
By the time the program ended, Dennis and his partner had made over $120
million - from trades made by complete novices. Many of these Turtles then
went on to trade for themselves, and some are among the top investors
operating today.
Authored By
Michael W. Covel
Publication Date
2007
Availability
315
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
THE LITTLE BOOK OF TRADING

Trend Following Strategy for Big Winnings
How to get past the crisis and make the market work for you again The last
decade has left people terrified of even the safest investment opportunities.
This fear is not helping would-be investors who could be making money if
they had a solid plan.
The market has always fluctuated, but savvy traders know how to make
money in good times and bad. Drawing on author Michael Covel’s own trading
experience, as well as insights from legendary traders, the book offers sound,
practical advice in an easy to understand, readily digestible way. The Little
Book of Trading:
Identifies tools, concepts, psychologies, and philosophies that keep people

protected and making money when the next market bubble or surprise crisis
occurs Features top traders in each chapter that have beaten the market for
decades, providing readers with their moneymaking knowledge Shows how
traders who beat mutual fund performance make money at different times, not
just from stocks alone Most importantly, The Little Book of Trading explains
why mutual funds should not be the investment vehicle of choice for people
looking to secure retirement, a radical realization highlighting the changed
face of investing today.
Authored By
Michael W. Covel
Publication Date
2011
Availability
316
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
THE MANY FLAVORS OF TREND

FOLLOWING
How to Beat the Markets, Using the Most Dependable and
Consistent, yet Often Overlooked Investment Strategy
Both Niels and Hari felt that Trend Following as a concept or a strategy is often
confined to the Managed Futures industry and that a lot of investors are not
familiar with the many flavours that Trend Following has. The goal of this book
is to describe and explain, in hopefully a both interesting and entertaining
way, how you can benefit from using the techniques that trend following has
proven to be both robust and highly profitable, even if you would do this on
your own portfolio of stocks.
So if you want to take your own learning to the next level as to how to apply
this well tested and proven trading method, then this is the book to read.
Authored By
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen & Hari Krishnan
Publication Date
2018
Availability
eBook
317
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
THE UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES OF

SUCCESSFUL TRADING
Essential Knowledge for All Traders in All Markets
The Universal Principles of Successful Trading clearly and unambiguously
articulates trading principles that distinguish the winners from the losers.
Though trading can be performed in different markets, across different
timeframes, and with different instruments based upon different techniques,
there is one common thread that ties all winning traders together: the
universal principles of successful trading. All consistently profitable traders
adhere to them regardless of the markets, timeframes, and techniques. In this
ground-breaking book from top trader, Brent Penfold, the reader will:
Learn how to develop a trading plan, and create an effective methodology

and successful money management strategies, understand trader psychology
and many more exciting secrets. Supporting the universal principles are rare
interviews from a diverse group of successful traders. Some are new young
guns of trading and others are market legends who are trading just as actively
today as they were over 50 years ago. They represent a diverse group of
traders fromall of the world. All of them have generously agreed to offer the
reader one singularly powerful piece of advice to help them towards their
trading goals. Each piece of advice emphasizes an essential element of the
universal principles.
Authored By
Brent Penfold
Publication Date
2010
Availability
Hardcover, eBook
318
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
THE UNIVERSAL TACTICS OF

SUCCESSFUL TREND TRADING
Finding Opportunity in Uncertainty
The Universal Tactics of Successful Trend Trading: Finding Opportunity in
Uncertainty delivers powerful and practical advice for the serious trend
trader. Using the principles identified in The Universal Principles of Successful
Trading, author Brent Penfold shows curious investors how to become a long-
term winner with tried-and-true trend trading methodologies.
The book includes in-depth and comprehensive treatments of topics like:
• Why trend trading is so appealing

• Popular and effective trend trading strategies
• How to measure risk
• Common trend trading mistakes and how to avoid them
Investors and readers will also discover the importance of risk, and how to
judge outcomes and strategies on a risk-adjusted basis.
Perfect for anyone interested in trading successfully, The Universal Tactics of

Successful Trend Trading is a key strategy guide that belongs on the shelf of
anyone involved in the buying and selling of financial securities.
Authored By
Brent Penfold
Publication Date
2020
Availability
Hardcover, eBook
319
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
TRADING EVOLVED
Anyone Can Build Killer Trading Strategies in Python
Systematic trading allows you to evaluate your trading ideas before risking
your money. By formulating trading ideas as concrete rules, you can evaluate
past performance and validate your trading plan.
Following systematic rules provides a consistent approach where you will

have some degree of predictability of returns, and perhaps more importantly, it
takes emotions and second guessing out of the equation.
From the onset, getting started with professional grade development and
backtesting of systematic strategies can seem daunting. Many resort to
simplified software which will limit your potential. Trading Evolved will guide
you all the way, from getting started with the industry standard Python
language, to setting up a professional backtesting environment of your own.
The book will explain multiple trading strategies in detail, with full source code,
to get you well on the path to becoming a professional systematic trader.
A highly practical book, where every aspect is explained, all source code
shown, no holds barred. Written by Andreas F. Clenow, author of “Following
the Trend” and “Stocks on the Move”, Trading Evolved goes into great depth
and covers strategies for trading futures and equities.
Authored By
Andreas Clenow
Publication Date
2019
Availability
Paperback, eBook
320
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
TREND COMMANDMENTS
Trading for Exceptional Returns
Do you ever think the stories you hear about great trading, and the gains
produced, sound like luck? Do you ever wonder if there is a real method and
philosophy behind the success stories? The concepts condensed into Trend
Commandments were gleaned from Michael Covel’s 15 years of pulling back
the curtain on great trend following traders. It is a one of a kind money making
experience that forever lays to rest the notion that successful trading is akin to
winning the lottery. Winning has a formula, as does losing. Michael Covel nails
both head on. Getting rich is a fight; make no mistake about it, but at least now
with Trend Commandments you have a primer that allows you to crack the
code of the winners.
Authored By
Michael W. Covel
Publication Date
2011
Availability
Hardcover, Audiobook
321
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
TREND FOLLOWING
How to Make a Fortune in Bull, Bear, and Black Swan Markets
operating today.
Authored By
Michael W. Covel
Publication Date
2017
Availability
322
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
TREND FOLLOWING
Learn to Make Millions in Up or Down Markets
operating today.
Authored By
Michael W. Covel
Publication Date
2004
Availability
Paperback
323
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
TREND FOLLOWING ANALYTICS

Performance Proof for the World’s Most Controversial &
Successful Black Swan Trading Strategy
Michael W. Covel’s comprehensive new reference delivers real numbers,
charts, graphs, and performance histories that demonstrate trend following’s
value and is designed as a companion to Covel’s other books on trend
following. This one-stop data resource brings together powerful new
performance reports and data straight from top hedge funds and investment
firms that use trend following to earn consistently high long-term profits
through both up and down markets--including when black swan events occur
and markets crash. Trend Following Analytics provides statistical evidence
of strong returns over long periods of time, based on hundreds of separate
reports. Designed as a companion to Covel’s international best sellers
Trend Following and Trend Commandments, this reference brings together
resources you might compile on your own--if you had the time to be a data
researcher! Covel has done the onerous research work for you and presents
it in a form that’s easy to understand, digest, and use. If you are disillusioned
by buy and hold, value investing, and index-based strategies, this resource will
help you draw conclusions about the benefits of trend following trading.
Authored By
Michael W. Covel
Publication Date
2012
Availability
Paperback
324
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
TREND FOLLOWING BIBLE

Alex Krainer’s Trend Following Bible is an A to Z nuts and bolts book on trend
following and the disciplined, strategic approach this strategy embraces.
He explores the psychological and emotional drivers of markets and clearly
contrasts that to trend following as a serious investment strategy for investors
set on steadily growing their portfolios over the long term.
Alex Krainer is a hedge fund manager, commodities trader and author based
in Monaco and also the founder of I-System Trend Following and Krainer
Analytics.
Alex holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Marketing

from American College of Switzerland; and holds credits towards a Master
of Business Administration in General Finance from Schiller International
University.
NEW
Authored By
Alex Krainer
Publication Date
2021
Availability
Paperback, Hardcover
325
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
TREND FOLLOWING WITH

MANAGED FUTURES
The Search for Crisis Alpha
As more and more savvy investors move into the space, trend following has
become one of the most popular investment strategies. Written for investors
and investment managers, Trend Following with Managed Futures offers an
insightful overview of both the basics and theoretical foundations for trend
following. The book also includes indepth coverage of more advanced
technical aspects of systematic trend following. The book examines relevant
topics such as:
Trend following as an alternative asset class Benchmarking and factor

decomposition Applications for trend following in an investment portfolio And
many more By focusing on the investor perspective, Trend Following with
Managed Futures is a groundbreaking and invaluable resource for anyone
interested in modern systematic trend following.
Authored By
Alex Greyserman & Kathryn Kaminski
Publication Date
2014
Availability
Paperback, eBook
326
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