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Best Trading Interview and Story Books
What great traders actually say, and what happened to the ones who failed. The Schwager volumes are the core; the rest are the history around them.
Market Wizards
Interviews with the great traders of the 1980s: Paul Tudor Jones, Ed Seykota, Bruce Kovner and others on entries, exits, and above all risk.
The New Market Wizards
The second volume: more top traders, including Bill Eckhardt of Turtle fame, on systems, discipline, and losing streaks.
Stock Market Wizards
Schwager turns to stock traders, including momentum and growth investors working methods close to what breakout traders run today.
Hedge Fund Market Wizards
Fifteen hedge fund traders on process: how professionals size, hedge, and survive the trades that go wrong.
Unknown Market Wizards
Top-performing traders nobody has heard of, several of them independent and self-taught, with verified track records.
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
The fictionalized life of Jesse Livermore: tape reading, pyramiding winners, and going broke by ignoring his own rules. A century old and still current.
The Man Who Solved the Market
How Jim Simons built Renaissance Technologies: data, short-term signals, and an organization that treats trading as an engineering problem.
More Money Than God
A history of hedge funds from Alfred Winslow Jones to the crisis: how each generation found its edge and what risk did to them.
When Genius Failed
The fall of Long-Term Capital Management: Nobel laureates, extreme leverage, and a tail event that ignored the models.