Which book is best for price action ?

[SunTrader]

Doctors, Lawyer & Airline Pilots should do that, "write a book" how-to themselves.

Why bother learning from those who came before them.

Do 90-something% of them fail at what they do? Sure hope not.

 

[murray t turtle]

I liked this post yesterday and I feel I don't have the experience to make my opinion valuable. But the more I thought about I wanted to say that this is 100% the case.

The book that is best for learning price action is 100% the book you write yourself.

%%
Could work;
but good way to waste a lot of time= just study your own charts .

 

[themickey]

I liked this post yesterday and I feel I don't have the experience to make my opinion valuable. But the more I thought about I wanted to say that this is 100% the case.
Pick your market, pick you time frame, and then just watch it and learn it. I wasted nearly four years buying books and following guru tweets and watching guru youtubers. The real learning started when I decided that the market would be my teacher.
The book that is best for learning price action is 100% the book you write yourself.

Yup, I think for a real noob, buying some of the classic TA books is a good idea, especially for example John Magees TA Bible....

This so you'll understand the basics, trends, S/R, MA's etc and also to learn some of the terminology of trading.

But after you've learned that, start experimenting and writing down what best method suits you.
Personally for me, coding your own system (which is similar to writing your own book) will teach you how to express ideas into a systematic method which help the brain from constantly wandering away with distractions.

Unfortunately Trading becomes a journey, it seems it never arrives at the destination, but it does keep you young and inquisitive.

 

[flash crash]

Yup, I think for a real noob, buying some of the classic TA books is a good idea, especially for example John Magees TA Bible....

I did study that one. And this one from Jiler I feel was helpful.



I also got that Bar by Bar book by Brooks. Not helpful at all. If there is anything useful in it it must be hidden by the poor writing and terrible presentation.

I have a pdf of a John Hill book about bar charts (John Hill mentioned above by @Handle123) but haven't gone through it yet.

The Tape Reading Book mentioned by @deaddog I read. It didn't resonate with me, and I sold it on ebay.

Edwards and Magee and Jiler are the chart books I read and kept. Everything else went back to Amazon or I sold on ebay. The Al Brooks book went in the trash.

 

[Badkarma]

That's an old book. I clearly remember the cover but not so much the content.

IT SUCKED

 

[clairemattockskth67]

I did study that one. And this one from Jiler I feel was helpful.

View attachment 343105

I also got that Bar by Bar book by Brooks. Not helpful at all. If there is anything useful in it it must be hidden by the poor writing and terrible presentation.

I have a pdf of a John Hill book about bar charts (John Hill mentioned above by @Handle123) but haven't gone through it yet.

The Tape Reading Book mentioned by @deaddog I read. It didn't resonate with me, and I sold it on ebay.

Edwards and Magee and Jiler are the chart books I read and kept. Everything else went back to Amazon or I sold on ebay. If you want to go deeper into price action at an advanced level, I would recommend paying attention to the book "The Art and Science of Technical Analysis" by Adam Grimes. I have never read anything better! My professor assigned my class to read this book and write a short essay about it. Then I decided not to do it and asked write my essay for me, I found https://ca.edubirdie.com/write-my-essay-for-me for this. But later my friend came to me and said that this is just a bomb (he is talking about the book). After such recommendations, I naturally read it, then you understand, this is a top book. The Al Brooks book went in the trash.

I've come across it many times, but I've never read it. Now it's probably time to do so.