What are the best books??

Option Volatility and Pricing Models, by Sheldon Natenberg. That will definitely help you get your head around options. Very helpful on the conceptual without weighing you down in models, math, etc. You need to understand it (to me) before you can go and get too "Technical"
 
Thank you for the post but don't you think options have changed since 1994, not to frustrate you about this but I think after 1999 all of the markets changed, volatility dropped , so did the trending. Although I will still look at this book, Thank you very much, please post more regarding this subject.:)
 
if you are referring to my post, effectively you must buy or sell calls and buy or sell puts in some combination to combat constantly changing market conditions. If you looked at the book - or Hull's book as well - you could have made money off the volatility drop of which you speak. Options are still priced off of mathematical models from the 60's, for God's sake, you think you might want to understand options - and their flows - down cold first. It's what you really need to understand to really "get the markets"....

A condor is a condor, a butterfly is a butterfly, and theta decay, well, time continues to decay. I'd read it if I was looking for a good series of lessons.
 
Thank you, how I stated before I will look into buying this book, I do know most basics about options, the begginer basics, like calls/puts,etc. really simple stuff, i will look into this book although, thanks again.
 
i like the following books.. not necessarily related to trading..

the alchymist

the greatest salesman in the world

god debris

Inside the House of Money

Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing

The Book of Risk

Liar's Poker

Machine Learning

The Elements of Statistical Learning

Think and Grow Rich!

Richest Man in Babylon

Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel

Genetic Algorithms for Pattern Recognition

Games People Play

Born to Win: Transactional Analysis With Gestalt Experiments

Artificial Intelligence in Finance & Investing

art of contrary thinking

How I Made 2,000,000 in the Stock Market

Winning the Loser's Game

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

The Prince

against the gods

Complete Works
Plato

Relativity Visualized

Japanese Candlestick Charting

Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns

fooled by randomness

Silent Power by Stuart Wilde

The Global-Investor Book of Investing Rules
Invaluable advice from 150 master investors

Risk Arbitrage: An Investor's Guide

market wizards

High Probability trading

madness of the crowd

In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington

anything on jesse livermore*****

Isis Unveiled*****

The Secret Doctrine*****
 
what can I say.............wow a great post, thanks for posting, thank you very much. I will try to read most of them becouse most of them I did not, it will take me a year to do so i think.


THANK YOU VERY MUCH, batman

:D :p :) :D
 
Iv'e read a couple dozen and my top 3 favorites are:

1. How I made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market

2. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

3. The Stock Trader


If I had to pick the next 3 they would be all three Market Wizards books.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top