What books will you recommend to a starting trader?

Trading & Exchanges - Larry Harris
Steve Nison's Candlestick course video & slides (you can find online....if you know where to look)
The Logical Trader - Mark Fisher
Options as a Strategic Investment - Lawrence McMillan
 
Things are changing faster and faster; technology and regulations- especially in daytrading.

What worked 15 years ago in daytrading may not work today. Winning ways of long ago may be sucker plays today.

Daytrading platitudes and simply "learning how to trade" are not guaranteed incomes for life.

*How orders are placed and who they are placed with is a crucial and overlooked or outdated topic in many books. There have been significant changes in his area over the last 10 years.

Here is a 2014 book addressing some of this:

 
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Frederick Foresight said:
In general, I think people make more measured decisions in the fullness of time, all else being equal. Therefore, the psychological elements of fear and greed would likely have more traction in the shorter, sweatier term. I would hardly characterize that as random. While there may be some apparently random reasons for entry and exit in the shorter term, I hardly think randomness defines it.
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That first sentence is easily proven;
+ why you never see a 24 month toddler as a trader.Taker yes; trader no LOL. But by 20 or 21 some may see enough to make snap decisions best, but I'm not one of those:D
 
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