Readers repeatedly ask me for book and article recommendations, especially new traders who are interested in learning more about trading and investing. Here are four new book recommendations from my personal finance library, all written by Jack D. Schwager. A complete list of all past recommendations is available on the Recommended Reading page.
Brian Johnson's Recommendation
Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders
The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders
Stock Market Wizards: Interviews with America's Top Stock Traders
Hedge Fund Market Wizards: How Winning Traders Win
by Jack D. Schwager
All of the Market Wizards books contain valuable insights and war stories from some of the top proprietary, equity, and hedge fund traders. Not only are these books informative, but they are enjoyable and even inspirational. They contain invaluable lessons on what to do and even more important, what not to do.
Most of these traders have failed in spectacular fashion at some point in their careers and the insights gained from their experiences could save you thousands and thousands of dollars. The key is to take these lessons and make specific, objective changes to your investment process to prevent similar mistakes in your own trading. Great stuff.
Amazon.com Description of Market Wizards
The world's top trader's reveal the secrets of their phenomenal success!
How do the world's most successful traders amass tens, hundreds of millions of dollars a year? Are they masters of an occult knowledge, lucky winners in a random market lottery, natural-born virtuosi—Mozarts of the markets? In search of an answer, bestselling author Jack D. Schwager interviewed dozens of top traders across most financial markets. While their responses differed in the details, all of them could be boiled down to the same essential formula: solid methodology + proper mental attitude = trading success. In Market Wizards Schwager lets you hear, in their own words, what those super-traders had to say about their unprecedented successes, and he distils their responses down into a set of guiding principles you can use to become a trading star in your own right.
- Features interviews with superstar money-makers including Bruce Kovner, Richard Dennis, Paul Tudor Jones, Michel Steinhardt, Ed Seykota, Marty Schwartz, Tom Baldwin, and more
- Tells the true stories behind sensational trading coups, including the one about the trader who turned $30,000 into $80 million, the hedge fund manager who's averaged 30% returns every year for the past twenty-one years, and the T-bond futures trader who parlayed $25,000 into $2 billion in a single day!
"Market Wizards is one of the most fascinating books ever written about Wall Street. A few of the 'Wizards' are my friends—and Jack Schwager has nailed their modus operandi on the head."
--Martin W. Zweig, Ph.D., Editor, The Zweig Forecast
Jack D. Schwager Amazon.com Biography
"Jack Schwager is a recognized industry expert in futures and hedge funds and the author of a number of widely acclaimed financial books. He is currently the co-portfolio manager for the ADM Investor Services Diversified Strategies Fund, a portfolio of futures and FX managed accounts. Previously, Mr. Schwager was a partner in the Fortune Group, a London-based hedge fund advisory firm, which specialized in creating customized hedge fund portfolios for institutional clients. His prior experience includes 22 years as Director of Futures research for some of Wall Street's leading firms and 10 years as the co-principal of a CTA.
Mr. Schwager has written extensively on the futures industry and great traders in all financial markets. He is perhaps best known for his best-selling series of interviews with the greatest hedge fund managers of the last two decades: Market Wizards (1989), The New Market Wizards (1992), and Stock Market Wizards (2001). The latest book in the series, Hedge Fund Market Wizards is due to be released in May 2012. Mr Schwager's first book, A Complete Guide to the Futures Markets (1984) is considered to be one of the classic reference works in the field. He later revised and expanded this original work into the three-volume series, Schwager on Futures, consisting of Fundamental Analysis (1995), Technical Analysis (1996), and Managed Trading (1996). He is also the author of Getting Started in Technical Analysis (1999), part of John Wiley's popular Getting Started series.
Mr. Schwager is a frequent seminar speaker and has lectured on a range of analytical topics including the characteristics of great traders, investment fallacies, hedge fund portfolios, managed accounts, technical analysis, and trading system evaluation. He holds a BA in Economics from Brooklyn College (1970) and an MA in Economics from Brown University (1971)."
Conclusion
The Market Wizards books are among the best selling, most informative, and most entertaining trading books ever written. Schwager specializes in the interview format and his experience allows him to identify the pivotal questions that will elicit the most valuable and enlightening information for the reader. I highly recommend these books for all traders and investors.
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