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Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market

Kathy Lien · 2006 · Level: intermediate

Forex-specific: what moves currencies, session behavior, and technical and fundamental playbooks for the major pairs.

For prop traders: The one forex-specific book on this list, for traders whose prop accounts are FX-based.

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One Good Trade

Mike Bellafiore · 2010 · Level: all levels

Inside SMB Capital, a real proprietary firm: how desk traders are trained, reviewed, and cut, and what separates the survivors.

For prop traders: Written from an actual prop desk. The review culture it describes is the culture an evaluation is silently grading.

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The PlayBook

Mike Bellafiore · 2013 · Level: intermediate

Build your own playbook: define each setup with its best conditions, size by setup quality, and archive trades so your best patterns get the capital.

For prop traders: Directly usable: a written playbook is what keeps size decisions from being made mid-drawdown.

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Reading Price Charts Bar by Bar

Al Brooks · 2009 · Level: advanced

Brooks's dense, complete treatment of price action: every bar tells you who is in control and what is likely next.

For prop traders: Demanding, but the closest thing to a full price-action curriculum for intraday futures traders.

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The Art and Science of Technical Analysis

Adam Grimes · 2012 · Level: intermediate

A working trader's synthesis: market structure, trend and range regimes, and how to test ideas instead of collecting indicators.

For prop traders: The rare technical analysis book that insists on statistics and process. Fits an evaluation mindset.

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