The Best Stock Market Books

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Read, Learn and succeed in the stock market

I have been a trader in stocks, mutual funds and options since 1983, and have learned a lot of lessons. I learned many lessons the hard way, which sometimes is the best way to learn. To succeed in investing or trading in the stock market, you have to read, practice and read more. You can read a book once and think you understand it. Then go into the market and forget everything you read in that one book. Go back and read it again and pick up what you didn't understand that first time.

The more books you read on the subject, the better you will understand the subject. This is because one book might explain an idea better than another book, but a different book will explain yet another idea better. Read several books and more ideas, concepts and lessons will become clearer to you.

When it comes to stock market trading, investing or speculating books, there are thousands of them. You could spend all of your time reading the wrong books. I have spent a great deal of time reading these different books and today I can count the ones that have actually been very helpful to me over the years with trading and investing. There are no get-rich-quick in the stock market type books here, because that doesn't actually exist. How can you get rich in the stock market, by learning and learning more, and staying in the game. Always keep plugging away smartly and by staying in the game.

These books will teach how to make money in a falling stock market or falling stock. You can learn how you can hedge your positions and how to make safe trades that make you money.

These books listed here are all worthy of you buying and reading. I say buy, because you will go back to them over and over again to make sure you are understanding each concept as you trade and invest in the stock market daily.

Best books for stock market investing 

Stock market investing is not day trading, swing trading or day trading. Investing requires the investor to do his homework. Picking companies you believe in for the long term. Looking back in history, it is amazing what many stocks have done in the long term. With stock splits and reinvesting dividends many good companies have made their investors very wealthy.

 

One Up On Wall Street : How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market

Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 01/06/2010) Buy Now

Beating the Street

Amazon Price: $10.80 (as of 01/06/2010) Buy Now

Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World

Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 01/06/2010) Buy Now

How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times and Bad, Fourth Edition

Amazon Price: $11.53 (as of 01/06/2010) Buy Now

How to Trade In Stocks

Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 01/06/2010) Buy Now

Day Trading and Swing Trading 

There are many books about day trading and swing trading. Day trading got a bad name after the 2000 dot com bubble burst, but it is still a very profitable way to trade stocks. Day trading just means you sell at the end of the day, no matter what. I usually find that a little too restrictive. I like swing trading since it gives me a little more discretion with my decisions. There are many good books on the subject of day trading and swing trading, which also includes learning charts, patterns and how to read the news of the day

Great Trading Books by a Great Author 

Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading

Amazon Price: $40.95 (as of 01/06/2010) Buy Now

Study Guide for Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading

Amazon Price: $26.37 (as of 01/06/2010) Buy Now

Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management

Amazon Price: $50.40 (as of 01/06/2010) Buy Now

Study Guide for Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management

Amazon Price: $29.70 (as of 01/06/2010) Buy Now

More Swing and Day Trading Technique Books 

A Beginner's Guide to Day Trading Online (2nd edition)

Amazon Price: $12.20 (as of 01/06/2010) Buy Now

Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders

Amazon Price: $12.21 (as of 01/06/2010) Buy Now

Option Trading Books 

Option trading can be fairly simple to involved stratagies. Just buying calls or puts is fairly simple, but you can lose your money fast. Options expire at some time unlike stocks that don't expire. There are many different stratagies to trade options including hedging and making trades that are almost riskless. With options you can make money if the market goes up or down.

 

Getting Started in Options (Getting Started In.....)

Amazon Price: $19.95 (as of 01/06/2010) Buy Now

Trade the Oex: Cut Risk Not Profit

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Cashing in on Covered Calls. Investing with Stock Options

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Fundamental and Technical Analysis Books 

Learning how to read a company's annual and earnings report is crucial to understanding the financial health of a stock. Learning at least the basics of reading charts is just as important. One of the hardest things to know, whether it is investing or trading, is to know when exactly to enter a trade and even harder when to exit a trade.

 

Entries & Exits: Visits to 16 Trading Rooms (Wiley Trading)

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Bollinger on Bollinger Bands

Amazon Price: $32.97 (as of 01/06/2010) Buy Now

Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques, Second Edition

Amazon Price: $63.00 (as of 01/06/2010) Buy Now

Candlestick Charting For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))

Amazon Price: $16.49 (as of 01/06/2010) Buy Now

Understanding and Picking Mutual Funds, ETFs and Planning for the Future 

Many of us don't have the time or interest to pick our own portfolio of individual stocks. That is where it is important to know about mutual funds. You can pick entire sectors of stocks or commodities for your portfolio. Many of us have 401k and other plans where we can pick which mutual funds out of many to own. Once again it is important to know which ones we should pick.

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